Work in Progress, "Here Comes April!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebinhttps://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI>4 EASY Chipping Tricks For Beginnershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku4comhKHJM>Decal Like a Prohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKLiEW7p9c>How to Edge Highlighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRbYuAfbEk>How to use contrast style paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhholrozptI>How to Paint with Tremorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp76vAJu9g>Airbrush Priming and Thinninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkntrSBvXxEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjBQzoukFghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JVUxABe44https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqT_R41JX8>Who's Johnny, she'd say, and smile in her special wayhttps://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Johnny>Previous Threads:>>97840919>>97802752>>97787373
I feel sick
>my johnny made it into the OP blessed
I think I finally have an interesting paint idea for the twin lance.I can't tell you in case somebody steals it, but rest assured it's kind of a cool idea.Also, I see GW still doesn't fucking know how to make model kits and that tau jump packs are still impossible to build without terrible gaps.
Just gotta base my Skorpekh Lord now.
This used to be a source of pride, now I look at it with disgust.
>>97858682Anon, calm down. You're just seeing red. That's aALOT of fucking red holy shit.
>>97858239reposting for visibilitybaker san, here's the thing to help with the collages, it's a userscript so you will need violentmonkey or something>https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/572499-baker-companion
>>97858693I mean they call me the red paint schizo for a reason, after all
>>97858700damn son that looks handy
Making a giga whirlwind
Done with the tonk. Now onto the tracked Repulsor.
>>97859080Badass
>>97859080Beautifully weathered.
>>97859080
Started painting some skeletons. Really happy with the bone color I wound up mixing (ProAcryl White Blue added to a mix of Beige Red and Dark Yellow Green).
Started painting my hobgrotz. Lots of airbrushing today for the whole unit, now I'm onto brushing with 5 at a time.Clothes and leather basecoats are down for these 5, did a little test on one of their feet to see how this new skin basecoat will look, which I think turned out good.
>>97859243>>97859305>>97859323Thank you, anons!
>>97858827Haha, love it
>>97858682well anon, can you tell me what is the most primary red out of all the reds in your opinion?
>>97859063you should give 4.0 a try, it's pretty fun. I'm making terrain too>>97859239Necromunda league starts next week and I think I wanna join
>>97859366Spoopy color scheme.
Finally getting around to basing my Chorfs.OSM Duergar general, Cavern floor tiles and skulls from Hirst Arts,Bull from Ral Partha(?), and Wings made from card stock and wire.
First thing I've painted in about 10 years. Definitely see bits to touch up, and need to figure out highlighting, but I'm very happy with it so far.
>>97859736That yellow is really fucking good if you haven't painted in years.
>>97858700Thanks, anon. I must've missed that the first time. I have Tampermonkey installed, so I will give this a whirl!
>>97858278>I feel sickDo you desire The Emperor's Peace, Brother?
>>97858239Metal Kreiger WIP
Gonna order some cyanoacrylate activator from GSWAny other products/tools/whatever you recommend getting from them?
>>97858682Why do you have so many purples?
>>97860037their sanding sticks are pretty good. You can just use the coarse ones (180-600) for minis, but if you do other kinds of models the medium ones are good too (800-2400).
>>97859606I guess it's supposed to be lava but that base looks like it's made out of bread
>>97860445It's lava cake
>>97859542I have this weird love/hate thing with painting my boats. Nice to see some Dystopian Wars love though.
I've found myself really lacking the desire and energy to pick up paints and really work on my projects and I've narrowed it down to the fact that my back absolutely kills and my legs and ass hurt like a mother fucker because my chair is completely dog shit. Any UK lads in here recommend a good office/hobby chair that I can invest in so I'm not in agony painting my projects? Sorry if that's not entirely WIP related
>>97860483Ibuprofen + acetominophen, 1000mg each.
>>97860467
>>97860483Look up refurbished/used Aerons from Herman Miller. The GOAT of the chair world, it will actively fix your back for as long as you sit on it properly. A new one is ridiculously expensive, but you can refurbished ones fairly cheap.
>>97860483>>97860504This from one broken fuck to another, and good bracing techniques so you aren't hunched over.
>>97858682did i gift you nocturna paints once for /ss/?
>>97860483>>97860511oh the rabbit hole of office chairscheck out also the herman miller embody or steelcase please 2 wich is a lot more afordable (secondhand/refurbished too)but never ever buy a chair without trying it out first, or buy one you can return for cheap or free after a couple weeksalso never buy an ergochair
Weird thing but despite planning to get better with airbrush, Im actively afraid of using it. I planned to get on with larger model today but I can feel that I'm honestly scared of starting, each time I pick it up my fingers are shaking and losing grip, I instantly imagine how it will get clogged again or how it will take long time to clean or how I will again do something fundamentally wrong. Had similar problems with painting with brush (like constantly assuming I will ruin the paintjob) but here stakes are higher.
>>97860588>but here stakes are higher.Anon, you are clearly on the spectrum here, but what the fuck are you talking about. The worst that can happen is that you'll have to clean the airbrush, which takes minutes.
>>97860558>>97860511All I've managed so far is to go to the charity shops around me and sit in the chairs they've got. Every single one is better than my shit fold out chair I'm using now, but I feel like it's infinitely better to get a Herman Miller chair even if they'll cost 4-5x more than anything in a a charity shop or on Amazon or some Chinese website. I genuinely thought ergonomic chairs were the way to go but it seems not?
>>97860616The chair doesn't matter when you hunch over, may as well sit on a stool
>>97860616Aerons are imo a fantastic investment. They force you to sit properly, minimizing most of the bad shit happening to your back with long hours of sitting. And with a little bit of care, they are imo a lifelong item. There's a reason why even turborich fags like Zucc use it. There are probably a lot cheaper chairs that will give you like 90% of the performance, you are definitely paying a bit for the brand name with HM. But still, if you spend most of your life sitting, it's imo a good investment. t. my ass sitting on Aeron for nearly eight years now.
>>97860616an aeron or embody is over 2k€, the please is around 1k...you can get an ikea markus for ~160 (wich is the supposed gold standard of cheap chairs)but if you think about it, if you use a chair 10+h a day for 10 years or more is not really a big price to pay to be confortable and keep your health, more so if you already have problems>I genuinely thought ergonomic chairs were the way to go but it seems not?the 'ergochair' is an actual model name (of a chinesium chair), all the above mentioned chairs are 'ergonomic', wich basically means they have some amount of adjustments, height, depth, angle, etc>>97860646the seat also matters, even more when you hunch over actually, a stool will destroy your butt in no time
>>97860689is it confortable to sit crosslegged on those?
>>97860689I've found some for £500, but I will say I work 5 days a week on my feet and normally about 1 day off I'm hobbying, 3D modelling, or painting. I still think the Aeron would be worth it as it looks like they sell parts for it too if yours needs refurbishment which I like
>>97860697Dudes don't need nice butts
>>97860704Not really. It's doable, but it's not that comfy. Aerons are designed specifically for optimal, healthy way of sitting, which means feet on the ground.>>97860709Yeah, you can fix most of the chair yourself, there are even tutorials. >3D modellingBless, I'm also 3Dfag.
Painted this funky little dude. It's cool how fast you can get trench crusade stuff done compared to 40k and its myriad details.
Progress on my leman russ so far
you guys sit in a chair while you work? my work bench is standing height and I have a bar type stool if I want to sit.
>>97860763>a fucking PHONE SCREENSHOT of a pictureI don't even understand why this triggered me so much
>>97860870I sit cross-legged on the table like a master tailor
>>97860870i only stand for a couple ours really, i sit for the rest of the day
>>97860870I have thought about getting a standing desk, and raising it all the way up to like chest height and working that way. Seems comfy. My lights would bang into the ceiling though.
>try to get better with airbrush, pick up that Casca 3D print I already primed months ago>time to change color, try what Vince showed since anons on /WIP/ told me to not flush by spraying out content like H&S videos show>cup empty, nothing seems to be still present after using that squeeze bottle>bubble back, large amount of paint is pushed back>okay, flush again the same way, bubble back again>another large amount of paint>repeat 4 times, still the same, it's like endless reservoir of fucking paint out of 5 drops originally>accidentally knock out 3D print, it breaks in half, right at where her legs connect, including those connecting pegsI want to die.
>>97860949Rip.Honestly not spraying through the nozzle is a meme. Just do it after the initial backflush.
>>97860949that's a clean break, should not be difficult to fixclean the cup so it has no more paint, fill it with water and a bit of ipa and spray it out completely while rocking the trigger, that should be clean enough to change color
>>97860953Doesn't matter, I'm fucking cursed, whatever I do, even if I repeat the exact same steps with exactly same tools and paints/thinners/whatever it ends with disaster.
>>97860988Stop being a bitch ass nigga that folds from a simplest failure.Also, a lot of bigger hobby and art stores (occasionally scale modeller shops and even Warhammer shops) organize airbrush classes regularly. Literally fucking take one, they will be organized by someone who has been airbrushing for ages, and have seen all kinds of retardation and fuckery. Take that class, and fix shit once and for all. You are like 90% there, you just need to deal with that one retarded thing that's stopping you. As for the broken print, just glue the bitch back and fill the gaps. Twenty minutes at most.
>>97860988I'm gonna be real with you anon I'm getting real tired of your posts. We're not building processors from scratch in this hobby or anything. Start learning from your mistakes and watch more actually useful hobby videos. Everything we do a 10 year old could learn with enough practice. Stop subjecting us to this self-depreciating bullshit because it's starting to look like you're just doing it for attention.
>>97861007I've just checked, there are even online classes for airbrushing. Just do it nigga, let someone walk you through it. That's the fastest way if you can't/don't want to troubleshoot.
>>97859080Nice dude
>>97859606Really well done! That base looks tasty
>>97860467Kek
Warming back up since its been a bit, painting one of my test marines as an imperial fist.
>>97861128Anon, are you using a wet palette with oils?
>>97861166Just the case to help keep the palette steady and my desk somewhat clean. The palette is a piece of corrugated cardboard with a piece of parchment paper tacked down with a few drops of elmers glue.
>>97861199Why not just use plain cardboard like everyone else? It helps to get rid of the linseed oil, too.
>>97860949Pin it, glue it, done.
>>978612101. Cardboard still absorbs the excess oil through the parchment paper.2. Thinned oils won't dry out as quickly so I don't need to constantly thin while working with them. Once I get it the right consistency they stay that way for a while.3. I can reuse the same piece of cardboard two or three times, just peel the parchment paper off and tack a new piece down with some elmers glue.4. Since the paint doesn't dry as quickly I can cover the tray with some foil and pop it into the freezer to save the paints for another day, massively slows the dry time. Take it out about 20 minutes before to warm back up and I'm good to go, good for if I need to take a break I can go back to the still wet mini the following day and finish up while keeping my mixes workable. Little things I've figured out while playing around with them.
>>97860763>>97860878Kek. I'm gonna post phone screenshots of photos from pictures uploaded to my desktop from now on.
>>97861037I'm sorry, you are right and I act very immature. Don't know why I react like this and why recently even more but that's no excuse, I shouldn't. Thank you and sorry again.
What roughness(?) sandpaper should i get for sanding down minis?
>>97861553400 grit to start
>>97858239How do you guys organize your paints? I got this box from hobby lobby on sale and glued in some popsicle sticks as dividers, I was able to fit a pencil box for brushes and this works for me since I travel for work
>>97861563i just keep them in a cardboard box
>>97861575I used to until I started traveling
>>97861563That's a cute box. I would like to come up with a compact/mobile setup one day for when I'm eventually homeless or living out of my car.I have racks, there's these ones, and another one with smaller sections for vallejo-sized bottles.
>>97857557Any advice on the armor?
>>97861563My wife got me these MDF racks for Christmas one year. They're great for organizing my paints; my only wish is that I had a better way of identifying exactly which colour is which. Because I am seated and as tall as I am, I can only see the tops of the bottles on the lower tiers of the racks.I should try labeling the tops, maybe at first with cheap round "garage sale" stickers, but ideally I'd like to paint something on the top of each one for "at-a-glance" identification.
>>97861704I wish that I had a johnny sticker.
>>97860743Very nice m80, slightly nauseating sheen on them guts. I just primed this qtpie as my first trench crusade mini, think I'll try and use my airbrush for actual painting like one of those clever youtube guys>>97861563I used to have some really nice black metal wall racks that were sold for storing nail varnishes, they looked quite good and held shitloads with the labels on view. I assume my ex did something spiteful with them and now I just have a shoebox in a drawer.
>>97861575Box gang rise up.
>>97860011Blessed legionnaire of steel, reinforcements arrive soon.
>>97858827Kek
>>97861563A big canvas grocery bag that I just chuck them all into.
>>97861707>I wish that I had a johnny sticker.Ask me for one next time you see me at the Citadel. Failing that, ask Santa. He knows how to get in touch with me. I'd happily send you a few.
>>97861128Done with the fist, letting him dry. After not painting for nearly a year my brush control has gone to shit (understandably), and I forgot how much the pale yellow overpowers everything else. Managed to erase most of the nice transitions I had, something to keep in mind. Felt good to paint though, just need a few more practice minis before I get back to the kommandos.
Every tank needs a kludged together APC variant.
>>97861289Take a phone photo of your phone screenshot and upload that. Also flip it.
>>97861777Yeah!
>>97862125Gross make a tracked variant of your wheeled variant pls
>>97860878>>97861289Sorry Im retarded
>>97861704i don't, i just have them all over the placei keep in the closet the ones i use rarely like primers or blues usually
>>97862125Ditch those Tonka-ass wheels and put it on proper tracks.
>>97862125Got it in 6mm?
I like this guy, he is HUGE. That means he has HUGE fun potential. Also wtf am I doing with the citadel blood paint, does it have to be left glossy to work? I always slather everything in matt varnish so I can enjoy my own worthless highlighting but I quite like how it looks, what do?
>>97862503>HUGE
Doing a painting challenge/competition and it's been fun.Got sent a random mini and 4 random paints and had to do the whole thing with those paint plus a pure black and white. The ones I got are in the backIt's not finished but it's getting there.
>>97862531You've done a nice job with the metalwork on the shield with that palette anon
>>97862531you've done a terrible job with the metalwork on the shield with that palette anon
>>97862503just mask that part, or apply matt and then gloss on the blood, or applñy the blood after mattinggloss/satin at the end is what i do
>>97862560It reads as metal, s'bretty gud for not being allowed any blues or anything
Sober painting:>nnngawsh I sure hope I've hit the contrast hard enough maybe I should pay for that guy's patreon ah fuck I messed up his eye why am I never GOOD ENOUGH *violent suicide with hobby saw*Drunk painting:>fuck yeah it was meant to be green and now it's green, I should put on some bolt thrower to celebrate
>>97862919drinking makes my hands shaky and my tummy hurt.
>>97862930Just keep drinking and eventually you'll feel that way but worse if you stop
>>97862125I like it
>>97862531You've done an okay job with the metalwork on the shield with that palette anon
there's something wrong with the eyes on this chaos space marine, but I can't tell what
>>97863459I think it's the "forehead", they tend to have more of a brow that gives a recessed eye look. That reads as more a mask instead of a helmet.
>>97863459>"GENERAL KENOBI!"
>>97863645Any tips i forgot to type on this
>>97858827Progress
>>97863516Yeah comparing to other helmet I think that's it. The reference is different, though. I'm not sure what I should do, I dunno if the original design would look good on a mini.
>>97860481hey that's a sharp looking metal
>>97863760this is 40k equivalent of those Toyotas in Libya that got rigged into weapon platforms
>>97860870I suspend myself upside down from the ceiling.
>>97863716>>97863645Looks pretty good. Maybe you could darken some of the blood splatter to make it look older, while some of it looks fresher.
>>97863814It would looks different. You made the eyes too large and angry in the first image.
>>97863760I thought you were kidding, but hey, you do you, king.
>>97862551Thank you!>>97862560Fuck you!>>97863122You!
>>97860059Imperial Roman detected…
>>97860870I enter a zen state of one-ness with the universe where I levitate in place while painting using my mind.
>>97863814Your eyes are also too high/forehead is too small. They should be around the middle of the face lengthwise.
>>97860870I always stand when I'm painting, I just find it more comfortable. I'm also quite shaky and I find standing makes it easier to get a stable painting position.
I haven't really been motivated to paint but had a sudden desire to play around with glazes
Kitbashing a terminator sorceror for the /40kg/ collage (hopefully the pics come out the right way this time)
Pistol
>>97864561>/40kg/
>>97864241I would glaze those bad boys too
>>97860483Spend five minutes every day lifting light weights above your head and doing squats first thing in the morning in addition to getting a good chair. It's made the biggest difference for me and is a habit that will see you through into your old age with much more comfort
>>97863814Shape of the "cheekbone" is different too, that sharp ridge is missing.
Painted the stone on another old polystyrene hill. Really happy with how it's turned out so far. Now to ruin it by sticking tufts and cheap basing material to all the bare parts.
>>97864561Cute little friend
>>97864840That's looking great
>>97863814work on your observation skills, many of the shapes, proportions, and sizes are completely off
>>97863814My advice as a non 3d artist is to do as you're doing and finish it, then iterate next time. Really cool seeing it taking shape
Working on another chaplain
>>97864850Thanks. I've decided not to ruin it with my normal dump of tea leaves and oregano, so am now going to have to figure out painting dirt and woodland undergrowth stuff, or maybe river bank with some water effects on the bottom edge. The polystyrene has some okay texture in places but the areas were I built extra rocks and ridges especially need work.
any UK advice for sci-fi or shape stencils?Got some Stargrave type vehicles and terrain and would be nice to add some like 5mm tall "logos" that are like ⦀●⦀◈ generic logo type shit, a bit like the Votann transfers.
>>97865328Man I remember chewing on these as a kid
>>97864852Have you ever actually compared a miniature to 2d concept art? (no you haven't)
>>97864840This looks very nice so far, good variety in textures and the composition is pleasant.>>97864241Lovely purple.>>97863760Gotta admit I also thought you were joking around but it looks super cool!>>97863645I like that purple metal but it does look a little flat. Maybe you could add some chips and/or scratches for some visual interest?>>97862531That's a very cool challenge and I think you did a good job so far. Are you allowed to mix paints? I feel like adding some pink to your skin tone would make it look a lot better.>>97860949Doesn't look like anything super glue and maybe some pinning won't fix, honestly.>>97860481That dark silver looks great!
>>97865389nta, i have, and i'm not sure what's your point, he's right
>>97865517notice anything different?
>>97865478Actually I did managed to glue her back in but since I acted like some autistic kid in fit of rage, I simply didn't posted results when she was back in one piece. Sort of one piece since sword handle was not yet glued back, due to how thin it is and impossible to pin. Likewise added some weights to her "base" to prevent future accidents since she is, as you can see, rather unstable. I wonder if people, who prepare models for 3D printing take these problems into consideration at all.I must also say that, despite my problems with cleaning (at least I know it's cleaning since spraying itself work just fine - then again, I thinner it really significantly, easily 3:1 thinner:paint, there were some grainy effects on paper so maybe it does separate at this point, AK acrylics by the way), I'm honestly surprised by how precise airbrush can be. Even with my obvious lack of skills, I could pinpoint lightly colored underclothes with minimal spraying around and avoiding staining red cloak. Granted, my only experience previously was Chinese model that sprayed rather wide but still. Maybe that Evolution was not expensive waste of money after all.
>>97865541I would get a disc of wood painted black and attach the model to that for added stability.
>>97865541She's gonna be a brown tomboy, right?
>>97865541>Maybe that Evolution was not expensive waste of money after all.Of course it wasn't my nigga. Evolution is a fantastic airbrush, and one that can do hairline spraying with no issue. You'll only get better with it, if you keep practicing. protip: Get a piece of thiccer paper (or old credit card or something similar), you can use it to shield/cover parts of the model to shade stuff.
>>97865541>>97865580Also, repostan:
>>97865572The inside of her base piece is empty and have round opening so there is a lot of space for anything heavy. But wood piece is indeed good idea in such case.>>97865575Her "preview" on store page, CGI, have her rather bright skin but Casca on official art is a "chocolate" so I will try to make her properly darker. I might fail, however, skin painting is still my problem.
>>97865584>>97865580Before getting serious training, I must figure out that cleaning problem. Since spraying itself works fine and problem arise when I clean for color change, it must be result of leftover paint accumulation between cup and the tip. I located two shops in my city where I can try to seek advice, one apparently ran by some grandpa that also paints on place (likely walking encyclopedia of knowledge) and another mentioning some painting classes on their page (might be outdated info but likely someone from the staff could help).
>>97865538all i see is a model that has nothing to do with the conceptif you tried to say that's okay because whatever, ok i guess
>>97865616>one apparently ran by some grandpa that also paints on placeThose are generally the best kind of people to ask. They are oftentimes just happy to talk about the craft, casually giving you a trove of knowledge that others gatekeep behind patreonwall. Also, if he's doing classic art with the airbrush, he might give you some good advice on art airbrush paints, some brands are supposedly excellent (like Schmincke Aero) and mogg the fuck the hobby ones.>clean for color changeI generally pour out the paint > squirt water inside from a bottle until only mostly clean water comes out (I have a bottle with an applicator, but bottles for ketchup will also do) > pour full cup of the water > backbrap > pour the dirty water out > repeat > another full cup > spray it all out through airbrush > put in new paint.
>>97865629
>>97861704Wife got me picrel, took me a while to start using it but now it’s essential. I’d have 30 more usable brushes if I started painting with the set up earlier
>>97864561What’s the 40kg collage? I spend more time on the WIP threads and the most I’ve gleamed is that it’s about killing space wolves but that might just be an autist schreeching
>>97865765Just a harmless community thing where anons can paint something in a theme that is decided beforehand. Space wolves getting destroyed won this month, it's directed at the resident insufferable, autistic lolcow that's obsessed with Russ and SWs.
>>97865765Space wolf or crucible character this month.
>>97865765/kg/ psyop to get people to post minis in that hellhole.
a questing knight for the day, to keeps the booze demons away
bought a thing just so i can do this
>>97865765community event where a dude makes a strawpoll with a bunch of options for a general theme that is left to interpretation, and everyone votes on it, so for example february was big guns, and march was big stick. at the end of the month, everyone votes on the next theme and posts their submissions, and all the pics are placed into one big image. its honestly pretty fun, and I’d suggest checking it out just for the challenge of it. as for the current theme, its currently either space wolves getting annihilated or using warhammer crucible champion rules to kitbash a character. usually there aren’t two options, but the reason its unusual is because there’s a bit of drama going on in /40kg/ because there’s a guy there who plays space wolves that has been really horrible to deal with to the point he was banned from the collage, and he’s been getting worse. at one point, an anon made a kitbash of his terminator captain standing over a dead space wolf as a joke which caused the guy to meltdown, so the guy who leads the collage made “space wolves getting destroyed” as an option for laughs, and it ended up getting first place, but it was brought up that some people might not own space marine bits to make dead space wolves with, or might not want to join in on the drama, so it was decided you could have a choice in either one.
>>97865970Nice.We've all been there. We do enjoy our spinnies.
>>97865328I don't have any pictures but I've had mild success by layering masking tape and cutting out shapes. You'll want to do it in layers so that you have multiple pieces of the same size in case they rip. Also using a hole punch creates a nice circle stencil.
>>97865975Kinda reminds me of somewhat similar drama on /m/ gunpla thread and their "group builds", also an event where everyone have ~3 months to prepare custom/kitbash/scratchbuild project on shared theme. At one point some guy(s) started to "police" the thread about what can and what cannot be posted, including "plastic girls" kits, even bullied one active and talented poster, all with this whole "we must gatekeep the thread" attitude. At some point people voted for "mecha musume" theme just to shut those fuckers up and as a big middle finger. It resulted in them losing their shit, few times attempted to spam thread and whole board with NSFW/guro images but gave up at the end.
>>97862144
>/wip/ - board dramaFuck off.
>>97866026Not even, this is drama imported from another general and another board.Beyond retarded, we've got enough here with anon sperging out anytime he thinks someone is the craftpainter.
>>97866036>craftpainter>it's him againFuck off.
>>97866036>craftpainter
>>97866036Sorry, I thought it would be funny anecdote.
Recommendations for snow?
>>97866047>>97866050Take your meds schizo.
>>97866068I heard good things about AK terrain paste.
>>97865991what do you guys use to crop and encode the video? seems like there's no good free and simple solution for that is it?
>>97866068>>97866098can confirm ak snow is goodi'm pretty sure their SNOW – WARGAME TERRAINS (AK1227) and Terrains snow (AK8011) are pretty much the same, i have the wargame onepic related
I guess Casca is now ready for washes parts with all base colors applied. Eyes will be fixed after that part.Hope that skintone picked for base is correct one and not too bright.
>>97864561what's the body from?
>>97863814The thing that I am seeing is thatj your camera angle is not quite right. I’m not super on point when it comes to this kinda camera and lens stuff, but you can see in the original art that the camera is lower, and there is some distortion and exaggeration/elongation on the details, like how the top of the head crest looks farther away than it actually is. You know how in movies when they do that zoom effect and anything around the subject kinda starts to warp? Your sculpture to me looks like you are taking the shapes at face value from a more normal head on view which makes them look kinda off.Basically the art is some form of perspective drawing, and you are taking its lines at face value without accounting for the perspective. But keep at it it’s still looking good. Pull the nose out, it doesn’t actually bend back inwards on itself.lower and flatten the eyes so they are less angry, the expression in the art is one of mild contempt and disinterest at best.
>>97858827Civa??
>>97865906nevermind it doesn't. fuck my life
>>97866452If the Lady didn't want us boozing, she wouldn't reward her most devoted knights with a swig of blessed booze
>>97866496ze lady reward her faithful with permanent intoxication, that explain the retard strenght and courage
Here are some old timey Chaos Warriors I am painting up for Advanced Heroquest. I am going to end up with four Chaos Warriors, each representing one of the Chaos Gods. I had the Khorne one painted up a long time ago since those are the basic colors of the CW from Heroquest. Just painted up the Nurgle one and have the Tzeentch one basecoated and washed ready to paint.Looking at them side by side I am wondering if there is anything I can do to update the Khorne one, maybe paint his gloves black, or does he look fine? And the Tzeentch one, I'm not sure if the black staff fits or not? Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated, or if it looks good as is.
>paint>back killing me the next day
>>97866571Ibuprofen and acetominophenThey target different pain receptors and one is filtered by kidney, the other by liver, so you can max dosage for both harmlessly and get more than double the pain relief.
>>97866663>not getting addicted to opiates like god intentedngmi
>>97866571Try breathing in deeply and letting your body find a good posture when you wash your brush. Make it habit, and you'll have a much more pain free painting session. Assuming the pain is from bent posture and not something else of course
Does it make sense to immediately buy replacement nozzle and needle for H&S airbrushes or they are lot sturdier and harder to damage while using than I assume?
>>97866565>I am wondering if there is anything I can do to update the Khorne one, maybe paint his gloves black, or does he look fine?Nothing really wrong with him as is, but a bit more contrast between the armour and the boots/gloves wouldn't hurt. Black's a good call, with some cooler highlights to pair against the warm red, or maybe a dark green if you're into that oldschool vibrancy
>>97866719Yes. They are a lot sturdier and harder to damage than you assume. HOWEVER, having a replacement ready (and that applies to all tools you use frequently, really) is usually also a good idea, because waiting for a new needle or o-rings sucks dick. I generally keep two extra needles (since I got two different sizes with my airbrush) + two packets of o-rings.
>>97866571Try to get up more often, if that's difficult with a chair switch to a stool, you're not really using the back anyway, right? Also when you get up stretch your Pectorals on the doorframe like in my pic. Main reason you're going to get back pain like this is from your tensed up pecs hunching you forward when relaxed. Just kind of put your forearm into the doorframe and twist gently, you don't want to strain.
The struggle continues.Blue still base coat only, maybe seeing the end of silver NMMY AM I SO SLOW
today i finished this one
>>97866697>Assuming the pain is from bent posture and not something else of course
>buy fancy workable tank tracks for the Repulsor IFV kitbash>they really are nice, so much detail>six tiny little parts per link>nearly 90 links per sideFug this will take a while.
>>97867006this doesnt sound very fun
my local shop just started stocking a new paint brand called Avante Art, anybody have experience with them?
>>97867025It's not particularly fun, but it's fairly meditative anyway. And the resulting tracks are REALLY nice.
>>97867006where from?
>>97867049https://www.scalemates.com/kits/rye-field-model-3027-t-161-workable-tracks-m109a7-m2a3-m2a4-m7a3--1583058
What kind of skin should he have, nurgle ish zombie or living/fleshy?
>>97867006I just did an old Dragon T72 with individual track links that were just ancient, solid plastic that barely fit together, the pain
>>97867072Pale flesh with splotches of dark infected red/purple skin and some decaying green. Give you good contrast and you can halfass hard to reach areas with the darker colors.
>>97867082interdasting
>>97866909Nice. Very nice.Skeletons are sexy.
>>97867081That's like some early 90s stuff, right? Yeah, these can be suffering.
>>97867028Looks like that's just Scale75. Idk though, never used either of them.
Little bit of prog on my collage entry
I bought this Rusty metal paint from Vallejo and it doesn't look like Rusty Metal at all but it's one of the best looking bronzes I've seen so I can't complain at all
Is it true that metallic paints damages natural hair brushes or this is just a meme?
>>97867241It's a meme if you take proper care of your brushes.
>>97867241The history on how people got to that conclusion is annoying and stupid, but no, it's fine. Just be cautious of contaminating your normal paints with any glittery particles because they'll stand out like a sore thumb.
>>97867028I just tried airbrushing one of their grays yesterday and it was the most miserable experience I've ever had with my airbrush, it gummed up almost instantly and even with repeatedly cleaning between attempts it refused to brush consistently, ended up dumping the batch and going back to the TTC paint I've been using for my greyscale75 paint which avante is supposed to be near-identical to gave me no such troublesI'm steering clear of the brand and dealing with importing s75 if I want those specific colors in the future
>>97867336>gummed up almost instantlyWhat can actually cause such behaviour? I only heard about water or incompatible thinner causing such reaction to alcohol based paints.
>>97867385No clue, I just used vallejo thinner like I do with all my other acrylic paints without issue, including the scale75 ones I airbrush frequently with
>>97865541>I wonder if people, who prepare models for 3D printing take these problems into considerationthe people making resin models don't take anything into consideration, the majority of them never even print their models.if a friend requests a resin print, and the listing has nothing but rendered images i know its going to be a mess to try and print, doubly so when the "presupport" uses the default lychee autosupport settings.CAD, printing and physical modelling are 3 very different skills, and only one of those gets you the big bucks online.
did some work on the dino
I refurbished the bfg ships I got at adepticon. The endurance took a while.
is it true that fine grit sandpaper will remove the cloudy finish from clear acrylic that's been exposed to superglue?
>>97865478I was worried I actually overdid the chipping at first, but I used Vallejo Metal Color Steel for the metal base and I think it's so dark that it didn't stand out from my black primer through the purple. I'll probably swap it out in future. Am post #645.>>97864086Thanks mate I thought the blood looked a little boring and that's probably why
>>97867634why does he look like he's trying to bust out a shit?
Whats a matching color to wraithbone? I have a handful of off whites but I struggle to find anything similar to wraithbone. It’s oddly warm and grey but I reallly need to undercoat it well for it to cover smoothly and I always scared it will separate badly in the pot. Also how do the new army painter shades compare to their old ones? Are their pure white and black paints any good? I already have paints from their new range but I’m curious about black and white since my local stores don’t sell pro acryl
>>97868085As far as I know no one makes an exact match for wraithbone. Duncan has one that comes very close but it's not a perfect replacement. Wraithbone is one of the few GW paints I keep because no one else gets it right
>>97868085
i enjoyed painting this model
Can someone post a BT anon sword or metallic armor? I saw before a recommendation to follow what he does.
>>97868318I don't seem to have any BT anon pics on hand - I do have some somewhere, I just don't know where.My attempt wasn't as good as his, but the gist of it is doing like a NMM style gradient going in opposite directions on each side of the blade, but instead of doing NMM black to white, just do a metallic steel/silver to black gradient.
>>97867858it will physically remove the dried glue which is causing the cloudiness. it will also scratch the plastic which can cause more cloudiness. it will likely take multiple passes at sanding and polishing to get back to clear.
>>97866909Did you change the metal recipe back? Either way it looks really good,and I'm somewhat(extremely) jealous. I particularly like the bone recipe and the muted black shading on your reds and blues
>>97868650since the cloudiness is caused by microscopic particles, can i just cover the acrylic in masking tape when supergluing to prevent clouding? someone must have tried this, right?
>>97868701just don't get the glue on the clear plastic. look up videos about cockpits on plane models.
>>97866272It's the Thousand Sons Cataphractii Praetor from Horus Heresy. Luv me 30k models
>>97862125Undertones
>>97868123how do you use it? whenever I see a guide the paint always appears very thick, and I know from experience that the coverage is shit. I need to paint it over a light grey to get any decent results
GRAVE NIGGER
>>97868661i used the new vallejo aged metal as base color for the armor on this one, just to try it, and a hint of green for the shadows
>>97866169love your skin tones!
>>97868123is wraithbone the old bleached bone?
>>97868318the recipe for the armor is in the wip tutorial mega in the opand here's an image i stole from him
>>97869280Live that red
>>97866015Phenomenal. I hate everything about it. Especially how it's taken in a dimly lit room so that the monitor glow is obnoxious. Truly an artisanal work of fuckwittery.
>>97867963Combination of the scrunched up facial expression and the rear leg pose. He's straining hard and it's not working.
Learned elders of /WIP/, I've a question about the best way to work on my next modeling project. I want to replace the lower bodies of pic related with tentacles made from green stuff, or milliput. I think the tentacles by themselves are not robust enough, so there are a few options that I've thought of.A: reinforcing the tentacles with wireB: gluing a brass rod to the base of the model and have the weight of the model lean on that. I've rods with 1mm and 3mm thickness, I reckon the latter would be more suitable.C: a combination of A and B. This would be the most robust version, but it would also be the most time-consuming.What do you think?
Worked on some sculpts during easter weekend. Trying my hand at using only polymer clay for a change.Pig brute to use as an ogre alternative.
>>97869495Sparrow cleric to learn how to sculpt feathers/wings (or at least an approximation). Still missing the clothes, messenger bag and necklace
>>97869502And the base for a troll, using differen clay because i am running out of the grey one for proper detailing :/
>>97869509Very nice work. How thick are the wires supporting the figure?
>>97869463C sounds like your best bet. The added step of cutting and gluing some rods really won't take that long. Wouldn't wanna risk your work falling over.>>97869495>>97869502>>97869509Nigga that's kawaii.
>>97869558They are 1 mm thick. I am reusing the spiral spine of an old notebook i had when i was in highschool.>>97869772ty!
>>97869463How many tentacles, how thick? The more tentacles/the thicker they are the better you can design the armature. For every additional strand of armature wire you include you can twist/twine them around each other to make a much stronger and much more rigid structure.
>>97869856>How many tentacles, how thick? The more tentacles/the thicker they are the betterAverage /d/ thread
>>97869856I planned on making six tentacles for the Ghar battlesuits, two to each socket on pic related. The wire I've at hand is 0.4 mm thick. I think I'll drill a hole at the center and put a brass rod there for support. The diameter of these sockets is about 5 millimeters. For the desolation drones, I thought of four tentacles, didn't assemble any yet so I've no accurate measurements for them.
Painting gaslands is so comfy
>>97868318
>>97869893fuck yes baby
>>97865478>That's a very cool challenge and I think you did a good job so far.Thank you and I took your advice and the pink really helped a lot so thank you again.I have been mixing paints but probably not enough. It's been interesting to have to pivot to other colours when the one I want isn't possible to mix.
Got 10 of my hobgrots done already. Started and finished 5 just last night.The bases I'm waiting to complete until the full 20 are done, so I can airbrush the glows all at once.
>>97870016>using gw nunames
>>97870016What else would I call them?
>>97869883My approach would be to use 1 mil fencing tie wire and then use two strands twined together for each tentacle. Six of those should be more than adequate weight bearing for it; you can test this ahead of time by doing up your own armature wire and drilling dryfit holes where the tentacles will go, which will also help you do test posing for the tentacles at the same time. 0.4mm seems quite light for holding that much weight without twining like 10+ strands together; galvanized tie wire from my local hardware shop is cheap as dirt and you're buying meters of it, which beats out the normal hobby tax for armature wire since it's not going to be visible either.
>>97870165Hobblin' Gobblos
>>97870004NTA but the eyes could do with a bit more work. If you're not confident at doing eyes at that scale (like me), you can crib Mike Mignola's artstyle where I just do the eyes as shadowy sockets. Pretty much all of my humanoid minis have that look to them which I quite like. Otherwise super cool result, proof that limitations breed creativity.
>>97870178My bitch be hobblin' across the room to start gobblin' my dick
>>97866230BROWN TOMBOY MOMMY
>>97869423Note that it is a flipped picture of a screenshot of a screenshot of a screenshot of a reddit thumbnail in a search engine.
>>97866230Brown tomboy supremacy
>>97870166I see. I can check if I've got thicker wire at home. Here is how I did the initial support structure. The torsos haven't been glued to the rods yet, I just drilled holes to them. I've a strong dislike of tactical rocks, but I used the xps plastic to support the rod. I planned on making the tentacles 5 cm long, so that they'll cover the xps as much as possible. I'll start working on the tentacles later in the evening.
One of the laziest paintjobs I've ever done but it's painted and I shan't imagine I'll ever actually use them.
>>97870261Post your humble brags on Reddit you fedora tipping faggot
>>97870270nta but are you okay anon
>>97870255I'd recommend spending the like $5 at a hardware store to pick up like a 5 meter spool of 1mm tie wire. I would say at that height if you're doing six tentacles each and each one had two 1mm wires twined together it would be more than adequate to hold the weight, you very likely wouldn't need the support rods at all except for helping you position the armature wires and figuring out exactly how you want them to look.>>97870226Truly miserable, abysmal work. Well done.
>>97870270NTA either but fellate a bag of dicks, man. You wanna be a cunt, that's your business. Do it somewhere else.
Let's be civil
>>97870270Nice meltdown.
>>97869893Drive offensively!Right of way goes to the biggest guns!
>>97870270
nmm or tmm?
>>97870261Was it just a basecoat + wash then lenses kind of job? You might've done a bit of rough highlighting on the barrels but I can't quite tell.
>>97870400My guess is sponged over a dark rattle can, then tmm. It's what I'd do to be lazy but honestly, I've had a ton of fun with that style
>>97870391I like TMM but the "actual" one where you paint shading and highlights
>>97870391Whichever you prefer.
>>97870429based>words actually mean thingsenjoyer
>>97870391Both kinda ass, just paint whatever you want, everything look the same shit OMG look at how much i GLAZING now
>>97870499Wut
>>97870499>Both kinda assreal chads electroplate their models
>>97870391NMM is a retarded influencer meme, it looks cartoonish 99% of the time
>>97870515>electroplatepleb shitsputter coat your models
>>97870528I see this take so often and it's so retarded.I'm not hating on metallic paint, it's fine a lot of the time if that's what you want. The thing that NMM gives you that metallics or even TMM gives you is control.>It only looks good in photos from 1 angleJust immediately outs people as having never seen any quality models in real life. It might look BETTER in tailored photos with perfect lighting exposure and contrast but so does everything. It still looks very good in real life.The main issue with it that I see is that there is an in-between period where you aren't doing complicated NMM that really warrants you needing the control it offers. But to get to that point you need to practice the basics anyway.But if you don't want to learn it, nobody's forcing you, metallics look good too, especially for practical army painting.
>>97870629I'm convinced the only people that post shit like this >>97870528 are absolute paintlets
>>97870629>The thing that NMM gives you that metallics or even TMM gives you is control.But you literally can do the same thing with TMM and it will look like actual metal, not like a Marvel comic book sketch
>>97870400Basecoat, wash, 2 sponges of lighter greens, basecoat wash drybrush for the metallics, and standard lenses.
A few weeks ago I was asking for advice on making "glass lava" or "obsidian flow" bases, and anon recommended mod podge crackle. I tried a few times but couldn't get anything along the lines of my goal, so I gave up and tried just using greenstuff.Priming it now, hopefully enough time to paint over the weekend
>>97870730>straight up leaving your fingerprints on the greenstuffabsolutely barbaricdo better
>>97870730if you are going to sculpt it at least get a small ball, like a marble or something to do the texture
>>97870730That's going to be real expensive.Could just 3d print a textured base, I know i've seen good textures for this exact thing floating around telegram/cults/thingiverse
>>97870730Here's an example of what I was talking about with the crackle stuff. I think I let it dry a little too thick, it didn't crack as much as I wanted, but hopefully you can see what the concept is if it were painted black (or white/blue for ice) if you take some time to arrange the chunks nicely.
>>97859465Probably the first one he ever bought. Thats the way it is for me with my absurd collection of miniature paints.
Now I think I know what was the source of problem I had with washes made out of oil paints - since areas I painted with brush were totally fine and those airbrushed had areas where I accidentally removed paint with just brush movement, I assume that I simply didn't notice paint removal from brush painted section because it had thicker paint layer and airbrushed one had very thin layer, thus capable of showing primer under it. Makes sense.As usual, nothing I can't fix but I'm honestly tempted to leave the cloak like this. Battle damage and all that.
Finished me grail thralls.
Her face took wash much better.
>>97870973Airbrushed layers are much thinner and can be easily torn when wiping away oil washes, it happens. Just something to be mindful of but as you said nothing that can't be fixed.
>>97871031Yeah, I'm honestly somewhat content that I found out the reason behind that.
>>97871031Did you gloss coat before doing oil?
>paint fantasy miniature >nononononono your magical fantasy armor must be realistic like real life armor with light this light that reflection this that
>fantasy means that metals somehow dont behave like metals n shiet
>>97871067>no, it doesn't have to be painted realistically, it's fantasy armor!>what's it made out of?>oh, you know, mundane regular materials like leather and steel
>>97871067correct
>>97871067People can paint their little plastic soldiers any way they want. Stop trying to stir shit, it exposes your norwood rating.
Time to make a new thread.
>>97870752>>97870829I used a silicone sculpting tool with the vaseline, couldn't see any texture until I took the picture>>97870838only for a character or two, was an idea I wanted to see through>>97870863Those look pretty good, I only had dixie cups and they're very small diameter + the crackle stuck to the inside. What did you use to get a clean release?
>>97871195>Time to make a new thread.We have a little time, anon. I'm gonna try out that script >>97858700 gave me later this evening.
>>97870629neither nmm or tmm (fake marketing term) will let you make a polished metal part that will show your face reflected in it. only true (not marketing meme) metallic paint can do this.>>97870730bruh it has fingerprints on it
>>97871195We still have 50 images left before the limit and are on page 3. Relax.
>>97871283I think anon was referring to the quality of ongoing discussion, rather than shitting the bed in haste
>>97871224>Those look pretty good, I only had dixie cups and they're very small diameter + the crackle stuck to the inside. What did you use to get a clean release?I did it in a little metal cup that happened to have a layer of cured silicone on the inside. The first time I did it, I think I just poured some into an oil clay lump that I'd squished a divot into. This one was like 7mm thick, I might err on the side of like ~4mm. but it would take more experimenting. This one I had to kind of tear the pieces apart
>>97870299I tried doing it without the wire, only caused a mess. Green stuff also started fraying in a way that really frustrated me. Need to look closer at the different wire options.
Ooooh he's a fleshy boyyyy. I'll probably leave him looking normal/alive ish while I paint some of his metal parts then try and have them infecting him along track marks and stuff
>>97871446Yeah you're not going to be able to do the tentacles as only greenstuff and expect it to hold weight and shape properly. That's why you use the armature wire as a core.
>>97871647The torso of the model weighs 7 grams. I must've phrased my earlier post poorly. The problem was that the green stuff kept fraying and falling apart while I was rolling it into tentacles. Didn't even get to the phase of fitting it to the sockets. I think I had a mixture of 60/40 of blue and green. The set i bought was from green stuff world and based on my earlier experience it's extremely soft.
>>97871661How are you rolling it? Are you doing it by hand, using one of those shape roller tools, etc? Greenstuff generally doesn't fray apart in my experience unless you've either not mixed it sufficiently (which would be obvious by it not being a uniform green colour) or if it's expired/half-cured (which often happens with the varieties where the two parts meet in the middle and aren't separated).
>>97871702Tried both with my hands and with a roll maker. The blues and greens were kept separate. However, it is quite possible that the stuff had already expired.
trying zentihal for the first time and kinda anxious about the results tbqhdesu
>>97872066Looks neat so farWhat're you gonna do to them after the zenithal?
>>97872096I think he's probably going to continue painting them with chromatic colors.
>>97872096gonna paint them as normal i guess, maybe thin out the paints a bit more than usual to make the zenithal really show, maybe, idkgotta look up more how it interacts and how i dont just paint over it yknow
today i painted this little guy
>>97872214You should prick your finger and bleed into his little cup a little bit.I'm being serious. It would be soul.
>>97872221blood will turn dark brown and crumbly pretty fast, it's just painted
>>97872221Nigga that’s mega cringe theatre kid shit
>>97872214What a cute little skelly
>>97872329nta, but i can appreciate a hint of theatre in art.but my models are for playing in public, and im not putting anything organic onto a model that's going to be handled by other people.
>>97872366>letting other people handle your modelsThat's almost asinine as the whole real blood thing is cringe.
>>97872140That's actually why I asked, because I also wanted to know if there's a special interaction. My understanding is that it's a good way to get lighting if you go over it with a speedpaint as your main coat, but I don't really use those. The other thing I can imagine it giving is a kind of visual guide for where to place lights manually. I wonder if any of the zenithal is actually expected to show later
>>97872372Nta but letting other people handle your model is entirely normal, if you're painting for gaming... isn't it? No one in our playgroup has ever gotten precious about this, we're all friends
>>97872385I don't see any reason why it should happen in a game, do you make your opponent move your minis for you as you dictate your turn?
>>97872389No, but if there are some on the other side of the table and I can't reach without walking around, we do it all the time
>>97872398>>97872389Also, not everyone paints for wargaming. Some folks just like to game with minis in ttrpgs
>>97872398Man, even drunks at the bar can walk around a table to play their own turn of pool.
>>97872221>>97872329At least it's not the Nurgle painter who used literal shit in his paint mixes. Or the cum stone guy.>>97872214>>97872254Charming little man, way more acceptable than the other skeleton wielding a chalice full of blood.
>>97872431Different kind of game, but anyway, just surprised it's that big of a deal for some people to have their models touched. If people are careless with them, that's a different story
>>97872389yeah, constantly.if im rolling for hits, or for toughness its faster for the opponent to set aside the minis as they fall.i do the same for them.also, what kind of anti-social person brings minis to a game, and DOESN'T want other people to pick them up and appreciate the paint work>>97872431do the drunks playing pool also get mad at the other guy putting the balls back on the table when they falls off? yeah you may rearrange them after, but sometimes it would be bullshit to expect the other player to go to the far side of a table when they can just pick a thing up and hand it to you.>>97872445yeah, if someone picked up my 3rd ed techmarine and heavy weapons squad and starting juggling them i would be mad,But the 10 year old at my FLGS picks up models gently by their base to avoid marking them, while the 40 year old grog will grab a mini by the head with his food stained hands because his guys are all base, silver gun, dip, current meta models, and assumes everyone else cares about their minis the same.its about perspective.
>>97872445If they're going to get greasy or damaged it's better if it's your own fault.
>>97872471>appreciate the paint workLooking is something you do with your eyes, not your hands.Hasn't everyone had this explained in their childhood?
>>97872488trying too hard at this point
>>97872477Ah okay so it is a protectiveness thing, that's fair. I do always ask if I may touch, and so far there haven't been any problems, but I can appreciate that a bad experience would put you off>>97872488Imo as long as people are respectful, I love it when they take an interest and want a closer look
Finally did enough to justify gluing the subassemblies together. Still got a way to go, but I wanted to see what it's like trying to paint it while all put together. I still wonder if subassembly is worth it.
>>97872528Surely anyone who's been at this more than a couple years has been there and dealt with this before.Whitelist/blacklist is too much, blanket policy works.
>>97872705forgot the image
>>97872705>>97872710Sub assembly never seems worth it until something breaks off and you see all the primed parts exposed
>>97872705>I still wonder if subassembly is worth it.IMO it depends on what you're painting for. If you're trying to just paint good models and push yourself as an artist, I find it's worth it. It lets you get easy access to areas you otherwise might not even be able to hit with the primer and at least get your darkest color in there easily. If you're just painting for gaming, who the fuck cares. They're gaming pieces. Get them on the table and play. I think most people in /WIP/ are in the former category though.
>>97872924>They're gaming pieces. Get them on the table and play.As long as you paint them first.
Does this work as a good reference for how light bounces off a sword blade? Obviously it's under studio lights and likely edited, but I've had a real hard time finding a good reference photo for how the light behaves in a fuller. This is at least a photo from a store page so I can be reasonably certain it's at least a real sword.
>>97872944stop doing nmm
>>97873011I'm not doing NMM. I'm just trying to do good TMM. Which involves understanding a bit of NMM and is basically the same thing but with metal paints.
What are people using for display cases? The IKEA one everyone used to use has been gone for years, and all the other ones I see now are above $200. Do I just lowball boomers on facebook?
>>97873054no that's fake tmm. use better metallics that look convincingly like metal without having to paint on reflections.
>>97873060I have some cheap acrylic boxes I got off Amazona couple years ago. Not a full display shelf but big enough to hold maybe an army if it's a low model count one. Not only have I still not cleared a place for it on my shelf 2 years later, but I got 3 of them and have only even put 1 together. It's also doing double duty as a WIP box for stuff too big or delicate to stuff in my recycled candy tins.
>>97873088>use better metallics that look convincingly like metal without having to paint on reflections.Motherfucker what do you think we do with paint? It's all about painting in light values. You paint thing the shadows and highlights. You don't just slap a base coat on and call it a day because "the light makes the highlights for you".
>>97873185you clearly don't understand what I'm talking about. there are metallic paints that you can simply put on and see your reflection in well enough to shave with. trying to "paint in light values" with this kind of paint would look like shit. I'm saying this for your own benefit. use better metallics.
>>97872374according to vicious googling and youtube videos i should use contrast paints and washes over this to not overshadow the ground work, idk i just wanna avoid a slapchop look (i think it looks like shit along with the over-airbrushed look)
I just don't understand this business of painting beyond a flat color. It makes sense to render things in 2d because you are pretending they're 3d, but when you're painting a 3d object why bother doing shading when the physics of light will just do the shading for you?
Nobody fall for the bait please, let's keep this thread on the rails.
>>97872214How did you do the robes?
>>97873422>let's keep this thread on the rails.Or... we could start a new one!>>97873529>>97873529>>97873529
I green stuffed a banner for Cultist-chan. I'm printing off some skulls to adorn it with.
Can anyone recommend good places for STL piracy? I can bet they exist, but I'm totally new to printing.
