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>>97991865
>copied the [Embed]

Anyway, not really mini but whatever.
I realized there is a small gunpla contest in just over 2 weeks, and I'm gonna enter something, no crazy conversions but I'm gonna paint a chonky HG like an industrial CAT looking thing, and tested out the base process on a spare tank wheel.
I didn't bother panel lining or dot filtering but I don't really need to test those. I'll be a little more intentional with the rust and do a bit more post work. I'm on the fence about if I want to try and do the tamiya putty texture thing a la nightshift but it will only take 1 day, and will help the texture on all the procedural effects that come after.

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Repostan, will go back and touch up the flame tomorrow (and remove that hair, bleh). One more kommando in the killteam, then they get matte varnished, put on their bases, final touches, then final varnish.

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repost from the very end of last thread. an update to my underhive diorama/display shelf.
>the big metal circle will become a large culvert/access pipe/conduit thing
>more work to do on the tarp overhang
>still need to buy sculptors mesh to build the window coverings
>to come: loads of pipes and trusses and ladders and a couple more walkways

>>97992066
looks awesome, would love to know the recipe you used for some of the metal I'll be working on soon.

>>97991702
people who use brush on primer are freaks. you probably have a goat or a lizard somewhere in your family tree.

>>97992217
My friend uses brush on primer and he paints on the sprue too. I genuinely don't know how he does it but I haven't seen a mold line or gate mark.

>>97992217
Dunno why there's a stigma around brush priming. It doesn't take any great effort or anything.

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has anyone used this? does it actually work?
If not then what are some DiY solutions to fixing frayed brushes or getting paint out of the ferrule? sable or otherwise

>>97992066
yea I just ctrlA ctrlC ctrlV'd that shit senpai

>>97992238
>>97992217
It's fine. I've brushed on vallejo surface primer out of the big ass bottle. It's your only option if mid-painting you see a spot that you missed or a piece breaks off and you suddenly have a spot of grey plastic

>>97992250
if you really wanted to you could mask off everything else and spray it

>>97992154
It was a dark red + some brown splotches and sponging undercoat. Then I tried salt chipping (kind of the inspiration for the whole idea)
Where you get the model wet and put some salt on it, dust it off where you don't want rust, and then paint your paint color on top. In this case a yellow ochre and brighter yellow highlight. Then you come back in and dust all the salt parts off with some added water if necessary.
I mean honestly I probably could paint that if I tried, but it does give nice organic shapes and the salt tends to get left in areas where rust would actually be I guess is the idea.

>>97992066
CLEAN YOUR FUCKING NUBS!

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Ok, missed the new thread. So small repeat.
Here are latest "feudal guards" with some sniper variants (with no shields, capes and admech weapons)

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>>97992609
And the rest of the latest guards. Those are the more regular shield boys.
I still have a lot of bodies from the Victrix saxon/normand sprues but I am already got like 64 infantry. I am thinking of adding some tanks/vehicules. My idea was to take the leman Russ and adding crenellations to the turret and some shields with coats of arms on them. If you guys have other ideas...

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Just finished painting this fella and it came out so bad I want to cry. It was 100% done with speedpaints so I guess I should invest in some acrylics and start learning how to properly layer, highlight, etc.
It'll take me double the time to finish my stuff but at least the results will be worth it (I hope). Sometimes this hobby is really discouraging

>>97992609
>>97992622
Love the aesthetic of these anon

>>97992609
>>97992622
faces are collage worthy

>>97992654
I honestly dont know what you expect.
This looks like a perfectly fine foundation upon which build the actual paintjob.
Did you expect golden demon tier results with just slapping contrast paints or...?

>>97992654
Don't beat yourself up, contrast paints are the minipainting equivalent of microwave ready meals. They're not supposed to look good, they're just supposed to look "good enough".
In this case, it's entirely on your tools.

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>>97992659
Thanks, I tried to get the "medieval guy who was just given a lasgun and shipped through space to another planet"-vibe. I really like the contrast between low tech shield and sword and the NM regular guard equipment.
>>97992699
Yeah, I think the faces are ok from far, especially when they are in regiments. But they really look goofy/bad in photos ^^' I struggle with improving the flesh shading, I am bad at glazing on small surfaces. And the eyes....

Here is the rest of the painted guys. I already posted those in previous threads.

>>97992781
why do they look like they're wearing day of the dead skull makeup?

>>97992609
Pots of boiling tar, tiny palisade walls, braziers, leather scraps for fire protection and so on. There's a lot of cool stuff you could do for sure.

>>97992781
>>97992825
Faces are hard ok !! But yeah, some of them good derpy and on some of them, the skin is too light and the contrast is too steep. I should stay at the shade step as it looks better than after I try to lighten it with a light layer.
>>97992837
The palisade could be a good idea as additional front armor or as a bulldozer blade of sort. Brasier are also cool, coolul be like the SoB tanks with some as exhaust. Ty for the ideas.

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>>97992896
Forgot the last pic

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>>97992896
check out the pastebin, it has a lot of good guides like this

>>97992896
Thats because you apply the highlight layer too thickly. Do thin glazes of lighter tones so the transitions aren't as drastic. Also I'd make the eyes smaller

>>97992905
Thanks, I'll look into those.
>>97992926
Yeah, I still struggle with thinning for glazes without having the paint and medium separate.
For the eyes, you're right I should. I do struggle making thinner lines but I can use flesh colours to reduce the eye a bit

>>97992966
make sure to wick the moisture off your brush if you're glazing
check out zumikito's video on the subject, it's quite good

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Painted up a Custodes, fun model to work on

>>97993263
Solid paintjob.
I can't believe people sperged out over these sculpts, they look pretty clean.

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Got the base done and the bull to a point where I could glue it, since the underbelly stuff is done and I just need to touch it up, highlight it, and then paint the gem.

Can't wait to move on to the smaller pieces like the throne and guy on top. I have so much more fun painting smaller stuff.

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>>97993320
very solid job!

I am about to paintsome "good guys" longeards.

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Finished up the latest Ganger

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>>97993424
Will do a final gap fill under the boots when the gang is done then cover it and the feet in a pigment wash to match the basing

>Everlasting wet palette v2
Useful upgrade or bourgeois decadence? I currently use a sandwich box.

>>97993456
Do you travel with your panting stuff? Do you have spare cash lying around? Does the sandwich box dry out too quickly for you liking?
That said redgrass charge silly prices for a pallete that is no better or worse than say army painter

>>97993456
I've had it for a while and it's unironically very nice. You have those membrane thingies instead of paper which don't overload your paint with water like a regular wet palette does. It's still overpriced for what it is but it does offer something in return.
>>97993483
>that is no better or worse than say army painter
That's not true as I mentioned above.

>>97993483
>no better or worse than say army painter
AP one is not even a wet palette in practical sense. Not defending Redgrass exorbitant pricing, but it's definitely better than AP.
Reasonable choice is imo either to make your own wet palette, or buy AK or Vallejo. Both are cheaper (!) than AP and they actually work as a wet palette should.

>>97993456
I mean its good but it wont improve your painting.
If your sandwich box works, just keep using it.
Sergio Calvo uses a garbage homemade one and I doubt it hinders his painting skill at all.

>>97993483
>>97993487
>>97993560
>>97993578
Thank you for you answers, anons. I don't travel with my painting stuff but I have the cash. I wasn't aware AK made wet palettes. I'll check them out.

>>97993424
>>97993426
She looks great, anon, love the gun casing and the face, really good execution on her make-up.

>>97993400
Gosh the art style of those models is so charming. Very cute dorfs

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More progress today. Most of the plates are in now.
Just noticed now that the pec armor is off centre which I'm a bit scared to fix

>>97993786
ohh so it was part of a titan and not just some macro cannon emplacement
very cool

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this took two hours, I lost two ball bearings, and had to cut about half a square inch of plasticard before I got the right pieces and even then one is lopsided

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I was originally going to do the three knights at once to speed it up but I hit a speedbump with the massive cloaks these two wear. I rarely paint any single texture that is this large so it took some time to get it right. The next two will done in unison but who knows I might get creative and do the cloaks in other colors.

How do they look? I originally airbrushed the armor with highlights but I was either too conservative or lacked the skill to do it right. I'm going to manually go over the armor with lighter yellowy greens then wash it all with some thinned aggrax.

I would also appreciate some tips for the flail since idrk what I am doing.

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>>97992382
I know but I don't want yet another product on my desk and it seems like a waste of time when I can just fill in the tiny unprimed part with a nearby brush

>>97992654
it looks fine. personally I don't like how contrast paints leave a uniformly non-uniform look, if that makes sense.

you can basecoat the model in speedpaint and then highlight over it with regular paints or mix speedpaints and create more depth with layering. thin them down with medium and they're pretty easy to glaze with too. the scales on pic rel were all contrast paints


>>97992723
>contrast paints are the minipainting equivalent of microwave ready meals. They're not supposed to look good, they're just supposed to look "good enough".

that's a good way to put it lol

I dont particularly like the guy himself but his tutorials prove that with just a bit of prep work, you can make pretty decent (considering the time invested) minis with contrast paints.

https://youtu.be/js0Bi2e1gAM

>>97994191
I liked his earlier videos before he became a full blown vallejo shill like all other spaniard fucks

>>97994191
Funnily enough, I've found that his "Zero Skill" videos are more difficult than classic, non-contrast painting.

I'm gonna sound dumb but I find washes really hard to use, I'm probably doing something wrong but they always seem to leave a particularly wet and glossy look. I'm not using gloss washe before anyone suggests that, I think it's just an issue of applying too much

>>97994207
who the fuck cares about the specific product he uses, just learn the concept, not the brand of paint
lmao

>>97994228
>slightly higher effort slapchop
woah what an advanced concept

>>97994219
carpenters have a saying that goes something like this: what you miss in measuring, you will cover in moulding
same with shiny wash, matte varnish will kill the shine in the end

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>>97994219
>I'm probably doing something wrong but they always seem to leave a particularly wet and glossy look.
Are you using Citadel washes - in particular Agrax Earthshade?

Sometimes, especially with Agrax, the pigment congeals on the bottom. Usually you can stir it with a stick, shitty old brush, or long piece of sprue and get it going again, but I've had at least one bottle where even with stirring, mixing, and shaking, I still had a bad gloss experience. It happened with some of the brown and red parts on my Death Company. Even with the few parts that needed Agrax, the shine was noticeable afterward.

Blasting the model with a dull-cote or anti-shine sprue should get rid of this, but it might also ruin the parts of your paint job that are supposed to be shiny, like TMM paints. I was able to mitigate it with a mixture of Stormshield and Lahmian Medium; you could use a similar concoction made by your favourite paint company.

>>97994314
Yeah I've only ever tried GW washes, I find it most noticeable with black

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>>97994219
AP and citadel washes are glossy. with GW make sure you shake them well but they're still gonna be glossy regardless. they're gonna look odd next to non GW brands since they tend to make their paints more matte these days.
you can try adding lahmian medium to the wash to thin it down and see if that helps.


two thin coats is NOT glossy however. just varnish in your preferrered finish and dont worry

>>97994207
same. he's been shilling v hard for them and I stopped watching his stuff. Nu vallejo isn't awful but I cant see a reason to use them over AP or AK

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>>97994349
As the other anon told you, make sure you mix them really, really well before using.

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Painted a face

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Why is my guy so fucked up

>>97994657
he dabbin

>>97994657
Acrylic whites tend to be chalky, proacryl and reapers have probably the smoothest whites out there. Or you can thing them with a drop or two of glaze medium instead of water which helps.

That or he's lost in the sauce, Dr's tend to be lushes.

>>97994657
Try airbrushing on white ink and varnish it afterwards.

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A small break from bigger projects, finished this little dude in roughly 30-40 minutes.

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What is so off-putting about this green? Is it too bright? Too warm? Just me?

>>97995155
It's the most toy soldier-like green. It's also just pastel green, a color that does not lends itself to the Eavy Meme painting style. Green is tricky in general, and unless you are using some specific shade (like actual military olive greens) just plain vivid green like that with zero weathering or grime will imo always look bad. GW is definitely putting the toy into toy soldiers here.

>>97995155
'eavy metal doesn't work well with green (or any inherently high value color), especially one towards the yellow part of the spectrum.
Normally on high value colors like yellow or white they switch to edge chipping rather than edge highlighting but because green is kind of in the middle you have a hard time with either of them, but neither is really a great option. But the land speeder especially looks like they basically just primed it green and called it a day.

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I think these are ready for varnishing. The desolation drones are such characterful sculpts that I might need to buy a second box and make a melee version of them.

>>97995155
>that assault marine next to the chaplain with the big ass mold line on its leg

The shading color they have doesn't give much contrast so it looks plastic. If they had chosen a darker shadow color the highlights would pop better and it would overall have better balance.

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>>97994824
>proacryl and reapers have probably the smoothest whites out there.
>>97994919
>airbrushing on white ink
One shouldn't basecoat in white to begin with. Either prime white, or basecoat in an off-white which has better covering power. However;
Picrel is my best white paint by far. Airbrush or brush. Only downside is that it's glossy at full strength, but nobody in the right mind is applying unthinned paint to minis anyway... right?
Golden high flow is also good. It trades covering power for the complete inability to streak. 4 coats over a black primer looks good. That's a lot, but it shouldn't even be possible and would be chalky as hell with other paints.
Not affiliated I just really like it lmao.

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Getting back to work on this project

Got the head, hood, arms, left shoulder, and arm pit modules left

Chipping away

>>97995311
I got golden high flow white for airbrushing white and it is worlds better than every other paint.

>>97995339
Wow, very nice.

>>97995339

Impressive work on the checkerboard pattern. I frown upon such big models on the tabletop, but I reckon such a big model is a real test of painting skill.

>>97995339
Me on the right.

>>97995155
Its very bright. And at the same time, the orks in the pic are in a very muted green. I think that is what makes it so "wrong" to look at. You are used to bright green skinned orks, and its the marines that are in that color this time.
Besides that, a bit more dust and dirt on the marines would enhance their look by a lot (but ofc, that is not GWs painting style, so its just wishful thinking)

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>>97991865
Almost done working on these bladeguard vets, just need to sculpt a couple hoods with gs and decide whether to carve in some damage on the storm shields or just paint it on as usual.

>>97995339
Looking great!

>>97995231
I recognize these beady fellows

>>97995449
The fine chain around the gorget looks really cool. and the bonding studs are a good touch. Planning to freehand somehting cool on the shields?

>>97995449

Yeah I got inspired by your beadwork to try it out, pretty handy for some models, but I definitely need more practice with it

>>97992154
>>97992154
Good luck man, but this post is a really shows why I dislike mixing in GW terrain with my own DIY shit. The official stuff is so monstrously greebled beyond all reason that you need to invest thrice the amount of work to make it fit in with anything else on the board.

>>97995499
Thanks man, I'm thinking putting on them the maltese cross as a recurring motif then just do some basic heraldry but different for each one of them, maybe some checkers if I'm feeling inspired. As a matter of fact, ideally this anon should paint them for me >>97995339


>>97995539
I drilled my way through the shoulder trims a couple times by accident trying to make a seat for the beads, I need more practice too dw

Do we have a check-list for everything needed or guide for first timers getting into airbrushes? I need to budget and plan for the eventual purchase.

>>97994219
the trick is to stop using acrylic washes. they suck and have basically zero advantages over other types.

>>97995602
>zero advantages
Very fast drying time (and zero prep I guess) is a good advantage and why I still use them in combination with oil washes depending on my needs

>>97995590
need:
an airbrush
a compressor
an air line to connect the two
some kind of spray booth

want:
a quick detach coupling for the air line
a "quiet" compressor with a tank
a moisture trap
a stand for the airbrush
some kind of spinning platform

>>97995576
If you're feeling ambitious, do checkers where the white ones are skulls.

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Is there any legit replacement for the old GW Chestnut Ink?
I need that rich red-brown back in my life.

>>97995653
>need
>spray booth
wrong, it's not necessary if all he's going to be spraying are acrylics

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Assembled some Terminators.
Most of them just need a little GS to smooth in the heads.

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>>97995698
And finishing up on building this model.
I bought the Venom Crawler three times now. This may be the closest I've come to assemble one.

>>97995707
Relaly fun build, very interesting.

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basecoats down for plasma ganger, I usually paint skaven so only own green fluro. Borrowed vallejo orange fluro from a friend but it wasn't looking right so mixed it into a hot pink and gonna build off that I think

>>97993653
thanks anon, appreciate that

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First time trying to glaze and make reflections.
Ignore the dogshit arm, all of my focus was on skin

>>97995822
Not a bad job for how terrible that print is, good gradient.

>>97995822
Is this fdm?

Why am I so tired?

>>97995653
Thanks man. What do I need the spinning platform for?

>>97995826
Its not really that bad IRL, 1 meter rule and all that.
Theres also a very nice (i think) purple hair highlight going around her head that i cant seem to be able to catch on my shitty phone camera. Shame. I really like it.
>>97995830
Yeah, 0.08 layers.
https://makerworld.com/ru/models/1850542-supportless-goblin-girl-02#profileId-1978036

>>97995449
>three monopose and 3 multipart
I did the same thing and only realized later that the monopose don't have scabbards + the sergeant has his skull on the wrong knee for some reason. It's almost like they DON'T want you to expand from a starter set.

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>>97991865
Y'all mind if I battltec

>>97995917
wow its refreshing seeing battletech minis that arent painted like garbage for once

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>>97995922
Yeah it's like being a gold medalist special olympian

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>>97995917
Crash 'n' burn!

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Getting closer

>>97995879
it's helpful when you are doing a bunch of parts at the same time so you can rotate them all at once instead of having to hold them in your hand and do it one at a time.

>>97995668
limiting yourself to acrylics is self sabotage and even if you do it's still good to have one. you can also be lazier when cleaning and just blast solvent through the airbrush right into the air instead of having to get a cum jar.

>>97996028
i like the dirty white

>>97995653
Spray booth can simply be a cardboard box with some paper towels in the back to catch overspray when you're starting out.

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I painted a dragon.

>>97996312
I know it's just the angle but he looks very camp with that hand gesture

>>97996312
I always thought the Pathfinder blue dragon fits the archetype way better than the D&D one.

>>97996339
Haha yeah.
>>97996379
The model was a gift so I painted him up. I was going to paint him green but I didn't have a green on hand that I liked so I went blue.

>>97995917
Really like these but the greens splotches on the bases are a huge composition blunder

>>97994473
Looks really good anon.

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>>97996510
Yeah, I saw some radioactive moss tufts at hobbytown and thought it would be cool as alien flora and some faction flair(picrel) but it kind of just looks like my mechs almost got slimed at the kids choice awards

>>97996588
Hit them with a dark glaze to bring them down a little. They're not fudementally bad, it's just super distracting since it's the highest intensity color on the models.

>>97992472
I'm taking it apart and going to clean and sand this stuff down as necessary. I have a couple of days before the primer I want to use shows up, and I'll spend that time prepping and planning everything so that I can go-go-go when it does, because between a couple different layers of oil effects with varnish in between etc, not to mention any attempted basing or extra freehanding I'm going to be super strapped for time to finish it before the 22nd but I think it's doable.

>>97992654
it doesnt look too bad, but its always worth it to learn the "right" way
also any discouragement is just in your head, get over it

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>>97996600
Thanks anon, I'll give that a try as I paint the rest of the trinary

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>97990178
thank you and its 12k atleast thats what it says on the label
my bad posting unpainted prints so if possible lets not siderail the thread into that
i was told to put as much red on them as possible so these have red fins

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>prime
>base coat
>shade
>base coat again
>highlight
>brushwork details and edge highlights
>done
Why haven’t you taken the airbrush pill yet? Slapchop tier speed and parade ready results.

>>97995339
I would steal this if I had enough skill

>>97996643
Hold on a second. I don't get it.
>Prime
>base coat
>make it look better
>make it look worse
>make it look even worse
Middle is a good starting point, go from there.

>>97996643
Why didn't you post your own airbrush workflow and took one off facebook instead?

>>97995654
kek I wonder how that would look

>>97995914
Yeah true; they have some subtle differences too, like the pauldrons trim

>>97995707
nice work with the tubes

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Back to working on Stegadon crew

>>97996643
>prime
>paint metals if not NMM
>clean water glass, replace palette
>base coats
>any freehand work
>highlight
>diluted wash
>maybe another diluted wash in the deepest shadows
>profit?

that's my method but usually ends up similar to >>97996652

>>97996706
look at fucking rockefeller over here, replacing his palette every other painting session.

>>97996713
Just the metals, I hate getting little metal flakes in stuff that's not metal. That's why I always do it first and NEVER last. Have you never painted a perfect red cape but the final wash put a few tiny metal flakes?

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>>97996652
Doesn’t look worse to me at all. The shadows stand out too much on the first pass. They need to be blended more gradually. Nor do the highlights look worse. Check that front leg.

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Any tips on doing rust on black armor? I'm not sure as it is now that it will read properly as rusty black metal armor. I feel like maybe I should throw a bit of metallic in the areas that will be rusty first to show exposed metal under whatever is making the armor black.

>>97996770
Use a rusty color

>>97996770
i would just thin a brown paint followed by thinned orange paint and maybe follow with a dark wash and little metal chipping

>>97995667
https://www.warcolours.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=76_89&product_id=214

>>97995667
>Chestnut Ink
Home...

>>97996770
>>97996796
and i mean really watery kinda wash thin so it blends itself into the recesses

>>97996643
am I missing something or is eavy metal workflow even dumber than usual when you do it with an airbrush? why not do 90% of the shading before putting the base color down?

>>97996831
I'm pretty sure it's a bait, possibly by the resident retard.

>>97996823
>>97996796
I know what I'm going to do for the rust itself, essentially that. But I was mainly wondering if I should do a metal paint in all the pitted areas where the rust is going to me. It feels weird to put rust on a non-metallic surface.

>>97996864
well think of it this way
rust accumulates on top of something and when its chipped away or eventually flakes off you are left with clear metal
or atleast thats how its usually painted to fool the eye
worn out metal would be very subtle metal drybrush that you then tint with some rust color i would imagine

>>97996831
What does this have to do with eavy metal??

You can use contrast paints/washes if you wanted to, but why would you? Unless it’s like 50/50 two different colors/materials and you want to underpaint both at the same time, you might as well just airbrush on your actual colors…

>>97996844
Seethe, retard.

>>97996931
Also you can shade before base cost if you want. You can go from highlight to shade, shade to highlight, base coat to highlight to shade, or any other combination you want.

>>97996901
that's not how it works at all. iron and steel rust so things made out of them will always have some kind of protection to stop them from rusting, and where that protection wears off or is removed you end up with rust. when rust flakes off there's just more rust under it.

>>97996864
look at images or rusted out cars or machinery for reference

>>97996931
painting a shade over your base color and then repainting 90% of it in the original color is peak eavy metal mental illness.

>>97997060
>or atleast thats how its usually painted to fool the eye

>>97997060
That has nothing to do with eavy metal you mindbroken retard.

>>97997089
it's not fooling anyone, except maybe the kind of people who paint their flamethrower heat shields rainbow colored. in other words the kind of person who has never seen any of this shit in real life.

>>97997132
total of 3 anons awake at 4am on a tuesday morning and we just keep feeding you out of pure boredom

>>97997147
>euroid
post disregarded

>>97997132
>has never seen any of this shit in real life
imagine thinking realism has anything over rule of cool when painting fucking warhammer miniatures

Is Julia Moshura the best miniature painter in the world right now?

>>97997185
>how do I paint rusty metal?
>no not real rusty metal, cool rusty metal that is more cool because it's based on my imagination of what rusty metal looks like instead of a simple observation from a reference photo

>>97997227
>that is more cool because it's based on my imagination
yes thats precisely the whole point of painting these retarded minis.
do scale modeling if you want to accurately portray real life with no creativity and originality whatsoever.

Do you use nmm or tmm for your small trim, belt buckles, accessories, etc.?

I feel like it’s hard to get a convincing nmm effect with a small surface area.

>>97997245
nope i have no drive whatsoever to hone my skills any further for i have found my perfect place between fast and quality
now when i think about it i have never even tried nmm even if i usually like the overly cartoony look on miniatures

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>>97996588
did someone say Jade Falcon?

>>97995917
very nice!

>>97997276
Give it a try some time.
Why not. Afraid you might like it?

>>97997362
Battletech minis aren't meant to be nicely painted, stop that

>>97997362
>>97995917
>>97995922
>>97996633
Interesting...
I never looked into it, but because of the one poster I just assumed the models looked like shit. Other anon's look like they were copied and molded out of play-doh.

>>97992154
I used to work in a laundry that looked like that

>>97997362
OUR BIG GREEN STYLE CANNOT BE DEFEATED

>>97997234
>I need to show my creativity in depicting rust, a completely mundane and common effect that everyone on the planet (except for wargaming nerds apparently) knows what it looks like

>>97997367
>Why not. Afraid you might like it?
yes actually, im so set in my ways you could say im afraid to try something new that might become a craze for me and throw me off my nice balance or slow me down
call it a hunch, i get addicted very easily

>>97995339
such lovely tones and color shifts throughout this model. I would love to hear what colors and your process you use for building up the offwhites.

Post actually good hobby channels:

https://www.youtube.com/@Paintingbig

Does anybody have any tips for rebottling citadel paints? I'm tired of pots.

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>>97997377
On the right is "official" plastic (fourth ore so company to license the IP from the second company to buy it after the creating company was wrongfully sued into collapse, so very much third party)
On the left is a 3d print.
Now you know the quality.

>>97997536
imho dropper bottles end up wasting the same amount of paint by burping as pots by drying
now im not defending new citadel pots but that teaspoon of paint you just shot from that clogged nozzle is no fun either
i remember someone used a tiny funnel because you can leave the pot leaning into it to empty it completely

I finished painting up all the guns and heads for my crisis suits, so I'm just waiting for everything to finish drying then I'll put it all together tomorrow.

>>97997536
Not worth it. Just get new paints over time from different brands as you need to.

>>97997536
there are jigs you can print that hold the citadel pot +the dropper bottle and keep them lined up for you.
My friend added airbrush thinner and let the paint run down a paperclip into new bottle.
>>97997649
this is what I'm doing, lucky I have multiple game stores, one with VMC, one with AK, and one with AP

What should I use to mix contrast paints? Can I just do it on the wet palette or will the water fuck it up?

>>97997753
straight out of the pot thick and sloppy like God and James intended

>>97997760
Right, but I'd like to mix different shades of green for different orks.
Also I want to play with shading using black templar contrast + medium to make a thicker darker nuln oil

>>97996747
I keep separate brushes, water bowl, and a smaller wet palette just for metals. I never trust it to be completely washed out.

>>97997584
>clogged nozzle
Stab it with a fucking needle and no paint is wasted.
Nowhere near the same level as citadel shit.

why don't you guys just use regular screw on cap bottles and take paint out as you need it with a pipette?

>>97997753
i've been doing it on a wet palette no issues so far.

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>>97997525
I do the whites like flesh and it's a very chaotic process, not so much a strict progression or recipe.

Mainly it's applying teals and reds and purples in a chaotic mishmash, texturing in various ways, then glazing it to a more uniform pattern with flesh tones and oranges and whites until it's a fairly uniform color but still has a lot of texture and interest. I dont have a uniform way of doing this so the end result is always a little different.

The main paints I used are vallejo gunship green, lime green, oxford blue, and burnt red for the under coats, and then vallejo bright orange (Extremely sparingly) and beige glaze for highlight, and AK skintone as the primary unifying glaze. Sometimes the base paints also get used to glaze. Just depends, I do what feels cool in the moment.

>>97997531
Buy an ad, grandma.

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Fuck I love my airbrush.

>>97998087
za cool

>>97998089
you mean Zakul?

>>97994473
that's a man

>>97995155
too bright, look up 30k horus heresy salamander schemes instead

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Yeah... That's fine... I was going to paint some more, but she can sleep I guess...

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Ok all done.

>>97997775
Use the contrast as a base tone and glaze yellow, ochre, maybe even orange to get different skin tones on top once dry.

>>97998174
Decoy chair is a must.

>>97998334
Just throw your cats in the garbage.

>>97998176
Im going to be honest anon:
The paintjob is an absolute disservice to the conversion you did.
It really takes away from all the effort, skill, and creativity you poured into the mini.

>>97998350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdNiVvKnzxA

>>97998350
Yeh maybe, but Ive clocked 10 hours of painting that mini now and it aint getting any better. Time to move on.

>>97998350
It's not low effort anon, very clearly he tried his best, and while the blends are lacking and there's some rough texture, it's hardly hideous. Some people develop faster at modeling than painting.

>>97998087
Nice

>>97993400
Where are these from?

>>97995883
>https://makerworld.com/ru/models/1850542-supportless-goblin-girl-02#profileId-1978036
this guy's stuff is disgusting
no, I don't mean just the trash boob goblins, I mean the clearly AI generated nature of all of them with nonsense messy parts
and people are still praising the stuff. what the fuck, do they not have eyes?

>>97996770
Exposed metal goes on the extruding edges where the paint scrapped off. Rust goes in the recesses, where moisture gets caught. Painted metal can rust just fine when the moisture gets below the paint, but the paint is meant to protect the metal, so the armor is less likely to rust.

>>97998518
AI generated 3D models aren't up to speed yet.

>>97997536
Pour them into dropper bottles directly. I'm not joking. It works completely fine to just pour them over carefully, the paint has a high surface tension so the stream is nice and thin and goes into the dropper easily. I transferred around 20 paints this way in about an hour or two while spacing out and watching things. You'll lose a few mls of paint that is leftover in the pot because it sticks to the sides, but just accept that loss. Would do it again. Dropper bottles are cheap, too.

>>97998491
printed dorfs from some olden edition

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>>97997536
theres AT LEAST 10 videos on how to do this.

>>97998072
appreciate the run down and progress pics anon. beautiful work

>>97998385
I'm sure it looks great in the hand, absolute disservice is quite the stretch imo
Picture isn't helping it, could do with a matte varnish and a picture under more diffused lighting. I think I remember you saying this was gonna be for a friend? He will be very stoked with it

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>>97995339
I do wonder why did you highlight each one of the 'white' squares as if they were tiles, instead of being painted on he surface of the pauldron. I mean the lighting does not conform to the shape of the pauldron but to the individual tiles.
I dont know id im making myself clear, hope the example I did clears it up

>>97998832
nta, it's a freehand representing a painting, so it makes sense to me that they would paint it in-fiction like that ignoring it's a curved surface

>>97998491
Games Workshop Longbeards, 6th edition sculpts, maybe printed or original metal.

>>97997584
>imho dropper bottles end up wasting the same amount of paint by burping as pots by drying
1. Don't be a pig disgusting and clean your bottles.
2. Use a piece of wire or needle to puncture through any clog, it takes like two seconds.

Is cured resin fine to handle with no gloves?

>>97999058
cured yes.

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It is this last week or so I spent days trying to pick a shade of turquoise I liked. Trying desperately to match a tutorial using the same paints only to realise this whole colour shows up very weird on cameras and will change hue camera to camera, or even eyeball to eyeball.
I saw Warhipster using Akhelian Green but in one video it was blue and the other more cyan/green tinted. Same channel just different videos? Weird shit.

I ended up settling on Dark Azure from AP and Greenshade. IRL they don't show nearly as strong a blue as they do in photos.

>>97998832
>Implying there can be only one light source

It's been few days already, when there will be proper new thread?

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Post cool knights for inspiration

>>97999165
Did you misunderstand my point or you're simply retarded?

>>97999180
this is a proper thread retard. you dont require a collage to have a thread but if youre so inclined make one yourself lazy bastard

>>97999201
you answered your own question then haphazardly applied a 2d technique to inform about shape to a 3rd object that doesnt require such to make it's shape known.
So your question, why did you paint your tiles as tiles is answered by itself, I dont know if im making myself clear

>shit at freehand
>don’t want to grind trad art
fuck

You'd think the more I work with GS the better I'd get dealing with it

Think again

>>97999226
You're not.

>>97999202
In my book, provocative pic and wrong links says otherwise but I will simply wait for next one, then.

>>97999244
Buy ultra fine tip sharpies and practice writing as small as possible legibly.

>>97999266
Good, feel free to fuck off.

>>97992066
holy moly. I'm gonna try >>97992389 I guess lol. I'll find a video because I didn't really get what u wrote
>>97992132
Nice stuff anon. Subtle.
>>97992609
>>97992622
Sovl
>>97993263
nice and clean<3
>>97993320
the runes really turned out well! gj!
>>97993424
incredible face O_O

>>97994139
Big guy on a skinny horse! I think other coloured fabric would be good, as well as subtle variations in the rest? I think the flail needs darker darks and maybe a touch of ... blue? In the highlights.
>>97994176
Hell yeah lizards
>>97995231
They look so cool! Great work!
>>97995339
bruh
>>97995822
huminah huminah awwoooogaaa
>>97995917
nice mechs anon<3

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>>97996028
Did you give >>97994657 that anon advice on the white?
>>97996312
It's blue!
>>97996673
Hell yeah lizards! Love your stuff, always fantastic<3
>>97998072
Love this, thank you
>>97998176
I like it! Looks real good, the weathering is nice.

>want to paint a custodes to practice my nmm
>now I’m eyeing an armageddon battalion
>and the 11th ed starter box
I’ll never finish my army

>>97998176
I don't think it's a bad paintjob at all, and now that is fully painted it conveys the pose you were aiming for which is very dynamic compared to the original one. good job

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my squats can press gang free dudes in Necromunda so I'm kitbashing up so me hive scum

>>97999368
consooooooooom

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Finally done, I guess. The base looks terrible though, and I don’t know how to fix it

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>>97999443
show me the tummy

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>>97999493
Sorry i don’t know what a bellybutton look like under wet shirt

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>>97999518

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I'm painting up some of the WGA Damned as some kind of backwater milita/pdf for a 5 Parsecs from home campaign.
Its interesting how the "feel" of the miniatures is completely different with the generic trooper helmets and shotguns, compared to the gasmasked hoods and ragged looking autoguns.

>>97999518
like the less traslucent parts of the dress, so the opposite of what you did

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>>97999562
u say this, but have u considered that it looks fine and lickable???

painting's bad

I read a lot of good opinions about AK acrylics in /WIP/.. but has any of you guys tried their QuickGen (speedpaint) stuff? Is it similarly good?
A long time ago i bought some GW contrast black, and i'm running low on it, so i am thinking about getting either AP Speedpaint, or maybe try the AK version of it.

>>97999619
I have five of them (Black, Brown Black, German Grey, Leather, and British Uniform). I'm not really that much into contrasts/etc. paints, but I like them better than Vallejo's. More consistent behavior and nicer finish, imo.

Why are there so many crabs in art spaces

>>97999433
>STOP BUYING MINIS TO PAINT!!!
What, do you just paint the same mini, strip it, then paint it again? Poorfags gtfo.

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>>97999798
i did that when i was poor with my csm, now they sit semi completed in my display cabinet