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Work in Progress, "The weekend can't be over! I've only painted one Space Marine!" Edition

>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD

>WIP Tutorial Images Mega
https://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 paints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s

>Paint thinning 102
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI

>4 EASY Chipping Tricks For Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku4comhKHJM

>Decal Like a Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKLiEW7p9c

>How to Edge Highlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRbYuAfbEk

>How to use contrast style paints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhholrozptI

>How to Paint with Tremors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp76vAJu9g

>Airbrush Priming and Thinning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkntrSBvXxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjBQzoukFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JVUxABe44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqT_R41JX8

>I want to shoot the whole day down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHHAbze03Z4

>Who's Johnny, she'd say, and smile in her special way
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Johnny

Previous threads:
>>98506759
>>98493914
>>98482298
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The weekend can't be over! I've only painted one Space Marine!

>rough print
>desk lamp broke
>sable brushes misbehaving
>matte varnish decided to be extra glossy
>don't like how it looks against the bases I prepared for the model
>decided it wasn't worth using good paints on, so cheap paints took 3x as many coats
>took me months to paint because ???
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Witch elf anon pls post group pic of all of them.
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>>98519826
>>98519596
Yeah they're some old metal sisters im adding to my all metal army(except my seraphim are resin casts).
I also have a Penitent Engine i have to suffer through.
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I have a bunch of meganobz and a warboss to paint and I want to capture this kind of vibe with the paint scheme but I can't find any references of people doing mostly metallic MANZ

Anyone have any suggestions or reference images?

Should I do 2 different shades of metals to break it up? I was thinking about doing brown with dry brushed metal for super rusted parts and then more standard metallics for weapons

Will it end up looking a bit shit? I like full metallic Chaos Warriors but they have shitloads of detail whereas MANZ have lots of flat panels.
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Finally getting some base coats down on this guy. Any advice before I get too far? I haven't painted in like 6 months or more.
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Painting Thousand sons.
A wise man told me once, if you want to enter competitions of painting, always do what you know what to do best. No new stuff. So it’s practice time.
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The shield turned out surprisingly okay
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>>98520465
Are you the guy with the black legion models with all the freehand?
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>>98520475
No.
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>>98520099
Yeah, that looks like ass, why use shit paint when this is the result?
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>>98520425
Single foot category?
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I just bought this cloud giantess and im kinda fretting about what skin color to paint her. Should I just go with standard sky blue skin/storm gray hair or should I do something different?
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>3D print some kroxigors
>prime them
>after a few tries, find a color scheme you're happy with
>models are turning out pretty nice, ready to be finished the following day, maybe post some pics on /wip/
>box containing said miniatures falls to the ground and they desintegrate in a million pieces

I'd honestly recommend not skipping a single one of these steps if you wanna feel overjoyed with fun feelings
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>>98520551
Yeh, something like that.
I am tidying it up and working on the other. Then the tabbard. I need to dig in back into the thousand sons for the main mini that I want to paint.
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>>98520549
I don't think the low quality paints or the 3 dollar brush with a hooked tip are the only reason the end result is shit
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Tried to marathon through this lictor tonight. Got this far.
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>>98520630
looks great anon

the stripes are really doing it for me
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>>98520591
sounds like a bad choice of resin
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I kept going and think it's starting to come together. Going to dry brush bone white on the bones to brighten things back up
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>>98520623
Ye I think the fdm print is the main culprit here.
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>>98520630
beector
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finishing up the skelly standard bearer
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>>98520760
God damn that edge work is clean. They look like physical animation characters.
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>>98520760
Nice
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>>98520563
>standard sky blue skin
I dunno about you, but mine is pinkish beige.
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As a new painter, is it normal to really struggle with seeing the tip of my brush and how far it is from the model? My eyesight isn't the best to begin with but I feel like I'm almost painting blind sometimes
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>>98520970
Do you have a good light source? Makes a massive difference, doesn't need to be some gay $300 redgrass slop, but you need a light source
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>>98520970
Might wanna get some form of magnification. I have a desk lamp with a built in magnifying glass.
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>>98520760
lovely, clean work!
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>>98520970
As 36 years old, I pick generic +1.5 glasses only for painting. With tiny details like that, it's completely justified. Also, as >>98520988 pointed out, proper amount of light is crucial. I recommend some neutral/cold light bulbs, 2 with 1100 and above lumens, preferably more. Most "desk lamps" with built-in LEDs give pitful 500 lums or less, which is comple crap.
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a terminator
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>>98520799
The filters on modern cameras are amazing, huh.
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First time using My modular magnetic tiles at the table for an improvised Session Dragonbane. Not Sure If i could call them finished. Maybe i want nore Tufts on them but there would be less space for minis
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>>98521102
Someone's salty
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>>98521102
I only change iso and shutter speed, it's all about proper lighting.
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>>98521072
>so HD I can see tiny pubes on the model
What camera are you using?

& nice paintjob fistanon
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>>98521162
canon r50 with a 210mm lens, f16, 100 iso and 0.5s exposure
>inb4 canonfag taking photos of his camera instead of with it
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>>98521125
Yep, there's a reason you say "Lights, camera, action!" in that order.
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>>98521216
but how did you take the picture
spoopy
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>>98521216
NTA but I still wonder if it would make more sense to shoot with long focal length (200mm telephoto) from distance or 60mm macro lens from up close. Assuming same f/16 aperture.
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>>98521224
>>98521216
WTF
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>>98521216
I shot some of my minis for fun the other day with my Nikon Zf using the 35mm 1.4 lens. I thought "I want everything in focus, so I'll set it to f 5.6", but that wasn't enough for minis hehe. I rarely go higher for what I normally shoot (people).
I'm not used to shooting tiny stuff like that. I don't have a macro lens either, but cameras are so good these days you can crop in how you want.
I'll use my 50mm 1.8 and try f16 like you next time and get the whole thing in focus. I used the 35mm because I had a few minis lined up for a "wide" group shot.
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>>98521226
I think it mostly comes down to personal taste, but I think a macro lens around 100mm is the sweet spot for "proper" macro. That's at least what I hear, but again it's all about personal preference
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>>98521110
that looks like a perfect amount of tuffs, you need to keep it playable
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Any good tips for taking pictures of whole armies?
There's plenty online for pictures of miniatures and I'm mostly fine taking pictures of units.
But when I want to picture the whole army I'm always at a loss
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>>98520623
do these look like shit?
they're not good, but they look fun and well enough to table

>>98520630
The bee-nids are the highlight of threads. keep posting them
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>>98521451
Unless you have some kind of diorama / terrain to frame the picture a bit it will probably look a bit directionless, or like an inventory of your collection.
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>>98521451
focus stacking is your fren
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>>98521451
having more than one light source is optimal
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>>98521451
attack the weak point for massive damage
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>>98521451
I like turtles
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>>98521463
Very good point actually. I guess even just a green mat and some sort of painted background would help a lot.

>>98521466
I had no idea this was even a thing, the most I know about photography is to sometimes turn the phone upside down to get a better shot.
Will look into it.

>>98521468
Fair, I figure it will help remove shadows and dark spots.

>>98521472
The I guess I should take pictures starting from my unpainted models
>>98521477
I'm more of a tortoise man myself
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I started on my next batch.
The 4 dwarfs with shields are the last models i have left unpainted from all the 7th ed starter sets I have accrued in the 20 years since its release.

The other dwarfs are EM4 sculpts. Simple enough that I felt like increasing the batch size from 12 to 16 wasn't too big of a deal.
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>>98521477
>>98521510
>turtles
>tortoise
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>>98520425
>So it’s practice time.
Anon, Rusty Nurgling is THIS WEEKEND! You need to practice a lot faster than that!
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>>98520425
>actually doing the eavy metal meme of edge highlighting inside the panels
god bless you anon, I'm not patient enough to do this shit
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>>98520818
Keep in mind the scale
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>samefagging shit from the previous thread
holy kek
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>>98521636
What is Rusty Nurgling?
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>>98521744
Rusty Nurgling is the Warhammer Citadel's version of Golden Demon. It's an annual painting contest held at the Citadel in Grapevine, Texas, and is this weekend.

Year before last there were at least three of us there from /WIP/, including the anon who painted the four classic metal Chaos Marine sculpts in >>98521636.
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3 models left for my first unit and I'm dreading doing the basing
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>>98521876
>I'm dreading doing the basing

Armageddon Dust
Agrax Earthshade (wash)
Zandri Dust (drybrush)
Ionrach Skin (highest highlight)

Simple as.
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>>98521910
I want to do jungle bases though
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>>98522036
Add sticks, rocks, moss, and aquarium plants. Use vallejo mud paste (it has little twiggy bits in it) and some kind of water texture paste to add puddles. You can sculpt stuff like footprints into the mud paste while it's still workable.
Prepare all your bases before you attach your models to them.
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>Bite my shiny, pewter ass!
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Continuing work on my Techmarine and Servitors
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here's a HE noble
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>>98522247
very nice
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If I want to search for minis/bits for Gasland conversions, which scale should I look for? Not sure what scale toy cars are.

Also, in which thread should I ask for Gasland-related questions?
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>>98522477
1/64
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>>98522498
Thanks.

Also, when modelling with toy cars, should I prime them directly, or should I strip them first? And if so, how? Not sure if regular paint strippers will damage the mini.
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1 Steel Legion done...a whole bunch more to go...
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>>98522247
Beautiful
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>>98522907
Looks brilliant, well done anon.
I'm so sad they didn't do new Steel Legions with the Armageddon set. But they kinda went out of their way to say "hey you can pain Death Korps as Steel Legion!" (which does look cool, but they aren't Steel Legion)
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>>98522907
he... he has seen things hasn't he
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Just finished this guy and now I'm putting together some gangs of necromunda. Don't know if I will ever play a campaign but it's something I've always wanted to have
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>>98520760
Done
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does the new formula model color have the same bubbling issue as the new game color range
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>>98523101
fun guy
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>>98522222
Lookin good. Also holy digits...
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>>98522216
To fix sable Rinse, apply human hair conditioner, reshape tip, allow to dry laid on table, rinse before next use, fixed
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>>98523555
it came like that brand new
I've tried all of that and more and it keeps reverting back
serves me right for buying a genuine winsor newton series 7
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>>98523627
>it came like that brand new
That's a return/contact support.
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Another model painted. I've done pretty well this month
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>>98523627
winsor's been shit for years. Raphael 8404 is what I'd recommend.
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>>98519702
>How so? It's just sort of wash or you thinned it, wiped it and use it as glaze. How is this high skill ceiling?
Bit late and nta but at a base, newish level contrasts are simple.
To clean it up and push them to what they can actually achieve there's a billion little tricks, techniques and small little things.
Due to their wash/oil like composition and transparency that means each paint behaves differently and interacts differently with both previous coats AND future coats while interacting very different depending on the surface, in addition to being a wash like paint means you can also use them as such with the proper thinning.
Then you add stuff like contrast medium into the equation and it can get quite overwhelming, it's not something you know or learn until you start getting into the endless pit that is contrast paints.

All this is barely scratching the surface and while these things exist, mostly, in regular paints, contrasts take it to 11 due to their translucent nature and their mixing and end result with past/future coats behaving completely different than a regular paint so not only you need to know for certain how each color interacts with different primer colors, but how it behaves with MANY other colors beyond the primer for proper shading.
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please yell at me like the retard i am about how shitty my painting skills are for a newb.or the order that i am painting things at.
what do you use for fire burnished metals? the color isnt right, i know that. i have no clue on a metalic blue for around the holes of the exhaust stacks
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>>98524079
bruh worry less about your painting and more about your assembly. that turret looks all kinds of fucked up.
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>>98524079
from least intense heat to most
yellow wash, red wash, purple wash, black. duncan has a good video on this that you can do with citadel paints.
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green lad for ya
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anyone know where I can find print-off decals for like, piles of posters that would be plastering a wall in a dystopian cyberpunk city? I looked for a good while and couldn't find any. Wanted to spice up some homemade terrain
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>>98524079
rainbow metal is a meme. it's only apparent on certain types of metal with certain finishes. realistically you wouldn't see it on something like a tank or a flamethrower. if you're just doing it because you want to be in on the meme too then there's no reason to be concerned about what it "should" look like.
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>>98519918
Are flip top caps better for Pro Acryl bottles and the preservation of the paint contents lasting longer or the are the alternative droppers better? I don't like the default Pro Acryl droppers that come with their bottles.
>also
What is Pro Acryl's Newsh really? And is it actually good? How do you anons who use it use Newsh?

>>98523555
NTA but
How about synthetics?
Is that brush soap good for it or will human hair conditioner work?
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>>98524467
love the armor
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>>98523832
well done anon
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>>98524005
Just use it as glaze lmao
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>>98521636
Hey I have some of those rubrics. But I am missing two to have two full squads of 10 each. Sorry I wont make it to rusty nurgling since I do not live in a 1st world country.
>>98521654
yeah if you ever want to play dont do it.


I will tidy this up tomorrow and proceed with the other legg and tabard.
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>>98523101
Looks absolutely sweet.

My one (1) comment is that it feels like the text should look more like pictograms than latin script.
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Tonight's progress.

I'm thinking of finishing it off with some of those neon colored alien tufts for the base.
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>>98524992
Really nice.
The gamer grass alien vegetation goes nicely with those.
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>>98524981
oh damn you're right, why didn't I think of that
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>>98523627
I had trouble like that with winsors from dickblick, all in a glass case, each one was like that, but I ordered from amazon and they arrived in a tube with protector and no problems with any of those.
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Why are you guys still using winsor newton? Russian, chink, jap and korea kolinsky brushes are all much cheaper, and with better quality control too
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>>98520813
this one was the usual, shitty hotglued plastic cage, one part silicone mold into the pressure pot, and casted with polyurethane resin in the pot too
i added some vents for the arms and under the chin, picrel is that first cast (wich also ripped a bit of silicone because poor cutting)

from my very limited experience (i just started doing this last week) a pressure pot is a must have, but so far i have been surprised with how good the results are and how easy it is, i expected a lot more problems with partial casts, bubbles and stuff
also white resin is shit ti see any detail, i might get some dye in the future
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>>98525186
and this is yesterdays batch
bottom left is from the first mold i did without the pressure pot, and as expected is full of bubbles and no good to cast with pressure
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>>98525172
All I have in shop are Kolibri or DaVinci, sometimes Kozlowski, all red sable. But there is whole lot of naming mess, some are named "kolinsky sable", some "kolinsky red sable", some "golden kolinsky" and so on.
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>>98525000
Slightly unrelated, but their new jungle base kit looks incredible and perfect for my kill team exodites and orks. Pretty expensive, but really cool.
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I like how this guy is turning out
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>>98525191
where are those coffin lids from they look familiar
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>>98525303
He looks absolutely pestilent, anon.
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>>98525336
they are oathmark coffin shields
>https://www.northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=17277

i think they are a copy of the ones pictured in 6th ed vc army book
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>>98521072
update
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>>98525477
Based and Billy Idolpilled.
Very clean job, anon.
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>>98525477
I still think these are kinda low effort despite you saying you do a thousand coats and stuff
it just seem like a blue basecoat, some lining and somewhat sloppy highlighting here and there
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Finished these 3.

Found them in a box of old unloved minis and just wanted to practice some techniques on them. Overall, I think they look fairly effective and would make a decent looking 1490 Doom warband so I've tried to make them look like they are in that desaturated world.
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>>98525477
Thank god you fixed that face
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Picked up some hobby supplies from a gundam shop, didn't clarify I was using acrylic paints and bought this lacquer based thinner - is it completely useless to me or can I still use it for thinning acrylics in my airbrush?
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>>98525387
Thank you, I'm on a Nurgle tangent these days. Next week I'm gonna start Trench Crusade with my brother, hopefully rules aren't too shitty because I like the designs. The mini situation is weird though.
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>>98525741
Depends on acrylics in question. In general, if you try to add lacquer thinner to waterbased acrylics, they would most likely rubberize or otherwise react badly. However, Tamiya acrylics are explicitly stated to be compatible with Tamiya own lacquer thinner. What kind of acrylics you talk about?
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>>98525186
You're aware you could just 3D print that stuff right?
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>>98525865
NTA but since when everyone have resin 3D printer in their basement (assuming they even have basement)?
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>>98525882
That's not everyone that's someone who's making silicone molds of minis with a pressure pot, what I assume is an air pump and cast resin in those to make copies of old minis, which takes infinitely more effort, time and money than just buying a $180 printer and printing those. Especially at scale.
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>>98525741
I mixed vallejo with mr color leveling thinner a couple of times and it worked good and made them spray almost like lacquers, but you'd probably need to test each paint individually in a separate mixing tray before spraying to see whether it gunks up or not
But tbqh I dont really see much worth in a non levelling thinner besides using it as a tool cleaner
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>>98525928
i duno if you know about this anon, but you can do things for fun. not because its efficient or practical but just because its fun to do. these fun activities are often called hobbies, as you can gain a neat skill while you do them.
collecting stls is not a hobby for instance.
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>>98525950
There's no skill in doing any of that. Funnily enough learning how to use blender will land you a job though.
But it's a retarded argument in the first place. The hobby is Traditional Games.
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>>98525964
>learning how to use blender will land you a job
lol
lmao even
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>>98525964
fucking americans. every time.
"did you know you can make money off this? make your boss happy?" like theres no other reason to do anything.
and casting is way more traditional games then blender you retard. go huff some resin fumes
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>>98525865
>>98525928
we already had this conversation, i'm perfectly aware, i even own 3dprinted resin models and a fdm printer, i don't want a resin 3d printer
i don't plan on doing this at scale or at all for models, that was just a quick test for leftover resin

i'm getting into this because i want to recast the terrain, and yes i know i can also 3dprint that, but i don't want to, i can't (and don't want to learn) 3dmodel them as well as i can handcraft them and i don't want to fight with layer lines and limited detail, it's also way less fun to 3dprint everything

btw, i'm using the airbrush compressor for now
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>>98525978
i came in way to hot here, but theres this attitude among zoomers/alphas that makes me genuinely sad. the economy is so fucked, so few of them consider doing things for fun. everything is a side hustle. everything has to have value or be able to win money from. you got to film it and monetize it and get sponsors.
I cant wait for professional bird watching tournaments.
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>>98525964
making molds and casts is more of a skill than downloading some scan from telegram and 3dprinting it wich is most people with 3dprinters, if you sculpt your own shit sure thats a good skill to have but don't want to, i know enough 3dmodeling to get around i don't want to also get into sculpting

>will land you a job
i don't want another job, i already have one, i don't want to monetize every single minute of my life, what kind of brainrot is that

>The hobby is Traditional Games.
>The
there's only one hobby? is there a hobby police too?
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>>98525978
You're the one who talked about learning a so called skill you retard, therefore I was pointing out that the process of 3D printing can also teach you skills and that they're objectively more valued. Now stop making me spell out the obvious for you, retard, you have the reading comprehension of a 5yo.

>>98525983
That makes more sense, terrain is a different beast since it's usually way bigger and the bigger resin 3D printer cost quite a bit of money.
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>>98526028
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>>98525584
They're 4/10 paint jobs with a couple of details that suggest he could achieve a 6/10 if he wasn't so lazy and painted the whole thing.
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I'm reporting this thing as finished.

Could probably weather it a bit more, but I'm done, I like it enough, and I have no clue how pro artists can spend 135 hours on a single model.
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>>98526119
copper needs a whole bunch of shading and weathering and I'd add a bunch of rust to steel parts but otherwise looks sick
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>>98526119
Needs more grime and some oxidation on the bronze metals
Most time I ever spent on 1 model was this guy from Kingdom Death. I didnt track how many hours exactly I spent on it, and it was nowhere near what some insane people put into individual models, but by the end of it I was sick of it and I've been doing squad/army painting for a while lol
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>>98526142
cheers straya anon
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>>98526142
Thank you Hiroshimoot, the model looks really nice upside down
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>>98526153
That looks great though
>>98526130
Thanks anon, I just have no clue where to place the copper oxidization and stuff because the thing is just too big and I'm afraid it will look out of place.
That's why I prefer small models lol
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>>98526166
Thank you. I was happy with my results but I can see a lot of areas that could be improved with some more time. Its a skill in painting to know when to stop and be satisfied.

Try looking at real oxidized metals to get an idea of where to place your oxidation
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Pepsi can scum market terrain guy here from a few threads back.
While I finish the details on the tent itself, I've made some custom stalls for it from leftover guard bits.
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>>98526211
That's pretty nice mate, lots of flavor to that
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>>98526211
Reminds me of the market at Nuka-World in Fallout 4.
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>>98526119
it imo needs flat/matt finish, it's way too glossy. Its a good paintjob, but kinda defeated by the glossiness. AK ultra matte would by my choice.
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>>98525940
>>98525862
Citadel

I'm gonna try a tiny drop and see what happens
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about to paypig for some 75mm minis/busts mainly for painting/display

are there any actual tabletop games or anything that I could use these in?
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>>98526423
No, it's off-topic
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>>98526432
lmao
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>>98526423
Inq75 I guess
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>>98526423
As far as I know, no. But >>98526432 is bullshit - /WIP/ is /WIP/, we post various hobby painting/scratchbuilding/etc here, miniatures and tabletop are primary stuff because it's /tg/ board after all. But I was posting plastic Kotobukiya/Bandai girls customised models before without issues. And 75mm prints too, one anon even made detailed instruction on what to fix in my Jaina Proudmoore miniature.
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>>98526489
>/WIP/ is /WIP/
Yes, but /tg/ is /tg/ and board supercedes thread.
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>>98525477
>basing looks like peanut butter
>stripes aren't straight
>handful of edge highlights just make it look like you started but gave up
>90% of the greebles are the same base color as the rest of the armor
other people will shit on you for the flat shading, but I think it would look fine if everything else about it wasn't so half assed.

>>98526142
>bronze
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>>98526616
take your bait elsewhere
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>>98526616
kys
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>>98526432
>>98526616
this bait is really stale at this point, fuck off
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>>98523006
That looks really fuck anon. I really like the way you painted the flesh, makes me think of the strog from quake 4. What mini is it?
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>>98526153
>>98526191
Wondiferous. That's what this is.
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Here's some on-topic: Further progess on my diorama base.
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>>98525186
>a pressure pot is a must have
Nice to have, but not a must have. Smooth-On's directions for how to make the mold without one do work if you're careful. I didn't have a vacuum setup until long after I'd stopped casting because I hadn't found one necessary.

>>98525865
Not in pewter, you can't. And if you're reproducing old OOP stuff, scans can usually be found but most of them aren't quite right. A properly done mold is going to give you something indistinguishable from the real thing. Recasts with double mold lines are the mark of beginners and third world shitters.
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>>98526803
Thanks
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>>98526941
Earn any coins from Poots yet? You probably will with that one.
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>>98526916
Anon, even GW lost tons of details from sculpt to polystyrene minis, they've said on record.
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>>98526950
and meanwhile people re sculpt scans digitally so they have more details and end up sharper than the original
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>>98526423
>are there any actual tabletop games or anything that I could use these in?
Trolls like >>98526432 might gripe occasionally, but there really are /tg/ games that use busts.

In fact, Fantasy Flight Games released an officially-licensed Warhammer 40,000 tie-in board game in 2013 called Relic.The playing pieces were busts of different character archetypes from Warhammer 40,000: an Ultramarine, an Imperial Guard Commissar (pic related), an Ogryn, an Imperial Assassin, etc.
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how do you find painting competitions
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>>98527087
I compete with everyone else on /wip/ but in my head
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>>98526423
>>98527053
Additionally - if you can find them - Forge World made large-scale models and busts of personalities and units from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. I used to have the big resin Blood Angel Death Company model... would love to have that one back.
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My airbrush stops shooting paint even if I'm holding down the trigger in the exact same position - so it shouldn't be paint drying in the nozzle as there is paint continuously flowing through the nozzle

Anyone have any idea whats wrong? Is the trigger itself fucked?
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>>98527087
>how do you find painting competitions
Check with your FLGS. Look on their Facebook pages; follow them if they are interesting. Get in with unofficial groups of gamers who congregate in your hometown... or one nearby, if that's not good enough.
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>>98527099
have you won yet?
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>>98527120
sounds like tip dry lil nigga
>it shouldn't be paint drying in the nozzle
did you actually check the nozzle or are you just theorizing it isnt the nozzle?
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>dry tip
this is what you get for circumcising your airbrush
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>>98527165
only when none of the actually good painters here post their models
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>>98527199
>actually good painters
there's only a couple here so you're good
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how terrible are apple barrel paints
I have a boomer at my LGS who swears by them but I'm not sure if he's fucking with me
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>>98527309
He's fucking with you unless he's retarded. I only use them for terrain paints.
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>>98527166
I've taken it apart and cleaned the nozzle

When I pull back the trigger paint comes out for a second then slower fades out

Paint only comes out consistently when I move the trigger back and forth.
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>>98526901
The mini is Ozostium Aranthus from Necromunda, I got the new goliath but really liked the dude.
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>>98527347
what airbrush? what kinds of paints are you spraying, at what pressure, and how do you thin them? have you looked at the tip once it stopped spraying? did you check how it behaves with just water after cleaning?
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>>98527309
>how terrible are apple barrel paints
Name rings true here, bottom of the barrel. Might be the worst acrylics on the market.
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>>98527347
>>>98526756
This one was for you, no idea how I mixed up the replies
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>>98527502
me when dementia sets in
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>>98527347
can you spray water without problems?
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>>98520425
>Rubric marine after I'm done with him in Space Marine 2
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>>98526643
>>98526681
>Called-out seething bust poster cucks coping there are totally /tg/ games that use their copepaperweights
Off topic, S. W. I. M. should really report all these off topic posts
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>>98527875
not enough buzzwords, faggot
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>>98527884
Keep seething paperweightcuck you've already been reported [not by me :^)] °
You'll never belong here, now skedaddle!
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>>98527957
Not even good paperweights with being printer resin.
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>>98526947
No, i dont know what you mean lol
gyaru pantsu
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>>98528080
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>>98527390
Pretty sure you meant another one, but it's still a cool mini anon.
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there should be more coomer minis

male coomer minis
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I purchased AK brush on primer, what am I in for??
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>>98528469
>inb4 maulerfiend fucked up left claws.
yeah i'm on it , gona have to get messy with the milliput again :/
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>>98523006

Do it. Build two gangs, build terrain, invite friends and run a campaign. It is the best game.
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>>98528493
NTA but I just got impregnated by your words.
But on the topic of skirmish games, which is more fun for casuals/newbies to wargaming? Mordheim or Necromunda?
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>>98528505
mordheim is always the best choice of any skirmish game
but apparently new necromunda has the newest ruleset everyone hates because its the most simplified obviously so that is propably the way to go
t. eri
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>>98526211

Sick terain piece, dude.

One from me; photography is shit and my painting stills aren't the best, but I'm liking this little Sump raft I made for Necromunda. Quite willing to hear any constructive criticism, or plain ol' verbal abuse.
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>>98528518
Does Mordheim depend fully on terrain like I imagine? I'm worried I wouldn't set up the terrain correctly and it would be shitty to play.
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>>98528574
i wouldnt worry about that because the best part of the game comes after the game when you roll for damage and treasure, thats the part that gets you hooked for life
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>>98528533
That's a very cool raft, anon.
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How would you model in this level of decay on a space marine or terminator? I have some of the HH marines and I want to make my own plague marines, and I also have a lot of patience and milliput.

Maybe not this intense but how would anon go about adding this kind of detailed pitting and cracks in the armor that actually look good and not sloppy?
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>>98528843

Crackle paste, maybe?
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>>98528843
looks like a very cursed spongebob
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>>98528469
Freedom from the dictates of weather
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>>98528505
Blood Bowl is the casual friendly skirmish wargame.
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>>98529214
>Blood Bowl
>friendly
lmao
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>>98524992
nice
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>>98525186
Nice, can you show a pick of the hot glue cage
And where did you get the vacuum chamber?
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ever since I got a 3d printer all I do is spend valuable hobby time fucking around in blender
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>>98528469
I use brushon on primer, the badger stynylrez grey. I have found two methods that work well. Either
>with a slightly uncomfortably full brush, very carefully apply the primer with slow and smooth motions so you don’t cause bubbles.
This works well, but can feel tedious, or meditative depending on your headspace. Method 2
>quickly slather on just a fucking heap of primer in a few seconds, then blow as hard as you can, blasting off any excess pooling.
This makes a perfect prime you’d swear came from an airbrush, but it means you have to go outside. Works great on infantry, might leave you light headed on a beeg model.
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>>98529389
>Nice, can you show a pick of the hot glue cage
didn't take one from that mold, picrel is the one for the shields, it's just a cube made out of plastic sheet and hotglued

>And where did you get the vacuum chamber?
it goes both ways, it's the vevor 'resin' one, currently i'm using a regular airbrush compressor for the pressure, i want to retrofit a fridge compressor to be able to do both vacuum and pressure but still need some parts and some thinkering
>https://www.vevor.es/cubo-de-pintura-a-presion-c_11088/vevor-pistola-de-pintura-con-deposito-de-10l-regulador-de-presion-de-pintura-con-doble-valvula-entrada-de-aire-6-4-mm-salida-9-5-mm-pulverizador-de-pintura-presion-70-psi-para-decoracion-de-interiores-p_010790810760
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Underboob
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>>98529868
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Aside from some touch up, he's done
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>>98529946
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Has anyone tried a very fine tipped soldering iron to do more detailed battle damage? Things like tiny pitting or more detailed edge wear?
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>>98529872
You are an inspiration anon.
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>>98529946

This is fucking amazing. Good job, anon.
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>>98529868
>>98529872
good use of greenstuff

>>98529946
I like it. My eyes are really drawn to that shrub because of the stark contrast. I don't know if your goal was to draw the eye downward but it achieves that.
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>>98528080
How much do you know about KD:M?
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>>98529946
>>98529950
fantastic
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>>98524543
>almost a day ago
I am asking because I'm unsure if the default dropper is best for paint preservation or if the convenience of the alternative dropper is good and airtight.
The flip top caps can sometimes be "loose" in the sense where their flip parts kind of 'loosen upward' if that makes sense.

Also I couldn't find usable flip top caps on amazon that delivered fast in Canada without waiting a month.
Tried one and they didn't work but the Aliexpress worked oddly enough. I don't know what the cap size for the PRIME, Newsh and varnish bottle flip top caps are sadly.
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>>98530037
I bought the game and some expansions about 4/5 years ago. Played with friends for a bit but then circumstances separated us(jobs, etc)
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I got the base coat done for my Aggressors and Bladeguard. I think Liquitex Basic acrylics are just not designed for airbrushes. They're thicker than hobby paints, but even when thinning them down, it gunked up the airbrush after just 5 models. Fortunately I was only doing 6. And when I went to clean it, there was paint everywhere that just would not come off easy. Normally just a few rinses with water and cleaner will clear it out, but this thick shit just sticks to everything. I damn near needed to soak the entire airbrush in IPA to get it out.

Just sucks that it's the right color for me.
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Here's an update on my Ogor Tyrant, I added the skin. I'm not the best at painting eyes still, it's way too hard for me.
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>>98526153
For the most part this is excellent, the scratches on the blade are maybe a little too regular towards the cross guard, but the big thing that confuses me is having a wooden cross guard and pommel. I'm not sure if you thought it would be too much gold, but I don't think it would fight too much with the helm, pauldrons, and decorations, and it makes the sword look unbalanced because of how wide the blade is and how light wood is compared to metal, especially gold. Another issue is the contrast on the half-cape is much weaker than the arm ruffles - both are ostensibly cloth but one would expect the shadows on the much lower cape to be significantly deeper; instead it appears to be almost a single shade of purple in comparison to the variety of greens on the arms.
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>>98529616
Thanks bro
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>>98529946
Nice iron warriors tyranid
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>>98529956
Just use a drill like everyone else
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>>98529872
Wouldn't she need the straps underneath for support
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>>98530663
They're magical anon
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Almost done with the bigboss and also started to figure out my new lighting set up.
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>>98521216
>>98521224
>>98521234
THEN WHO WAS CAMERA?
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Painted this cloak tonight and decided to try some freehand
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>>98530704
lovely stuff, I've gotta say
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>>98530597
Should I go back and try to fix the eyes with skin or leave it as is?
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>>98530730
You can, sure. Keep it thin and try to get as smooth a surface as you can, and you can keep painting on pretty much anything. Eyes are a challenge without a really good brush, lights and magnification.
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>>98530659
That's not the same thing at all and can only make holes.
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>>98530797
Get a wire and heat it up
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>>98529872
That does not cover the nipples, and I'm okay with that.
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>>98530774
I went back to try and touch it up. Does it look better or worse?
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>>98530983
Better
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>>98530774
>Eyes are a challenge without a really good brush, lights and magnification
So I'll need:
>An expensive/designer brush fromm some painting hobby shop
>That device that I hook up to a table that shines a bright light over me
>A jeweler's magnifying glass
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>>98531000
Or the ability to meet the challenge without those tools I guess?
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>>98530944
Just barely
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>>98531094
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>>98531000
Its an ogre head. Just get a 0 or 00 brush and get good. People do 28mm minis with nothing but a brush. In the case of >>98530597 I'd go back with skin tone to make the eyes a bit thinner, they're well placed otherwise.
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>>98531000
oh no the horrors not the basic hobby supplies what a nightmare i'm going insane
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>>98531000
Good tools make the work easier. This goes from anything from making tables to miniature painting.
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>you need paint and a brush to paint miniatures
how about fuck you
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>>98531261
this fills me with unending and ceaseless dread, thanks!

also finally finished gnawholes after fucking around with them for a few weeks, i'm very thankful i did them in sub-assembly
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>>98531341
Incredible work for a terrain object that is really dumb-looking in my opinion.
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>>98531438
i personally really like it, although my biggest problem are the wooden supports, both in terms of assembly as well as them getting in the way during tabletop play. so i definitely understand why a lot of people build the thing without them
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Laser cut some exodite terrain.
I was just going to go.classic wraith none but people told me to try and partial translucent look.

Not sure if love it.
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>>98531507
A smooth transition would look a lot better I recon.
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>>98531567
what anon said yeah, i'm not sure how well stippling would work but a more gradual (or even splotchy?) gradient would look nice i think
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>>98531507
Why is it half painted?
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Finished my midget zombie bounty hunter
(Too scared to do the eyes)
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>>98530725
thanks!
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>>98531704
I think it's actually wood with a resin pour on top, then cut with the templates that were released a short while ago for that style of terrain.
So it's not painted, that's actually what the material looks like.
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>>98532014(me)
I'm having second thoughts, it might just be half painted acrylic.
I was convinced it was wood for a second there though, props >>98531507
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>>98531704
>>98532015
>>98532014
Clear acrylic.

>>98531583
>>98531567
Yeah I'll work on the transition
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>>98532025
>>98531507
I'm wondering if a dark blue glaze would look nice up top. Use contrast paint to maintain transparency though.
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>>98531962
Do it, you'll never have easier eyes to paint than big open ones like those
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My first attempt at camouflage isn't going too well, bros.
I tried to go with a "smear" camo, because I think it's the easiest, but it just looks like dookie.
Gonna go over it with some athonian camoshade, hope it tidies it up a bit
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>>98532089
I added a third color and it instantly looks better in my opinion!
Still working on it though of course
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>>98532025
>>98531507
My advice? Actually cut at the transition point where it becomes spectral, so you can paint the interior surface of the tangible stonework. That way you can't see "inside" of it by looking at the wrong angle.
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What magnet grades do you lads use for your miniatures when magnetizing the base?
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>>98530642
Thanks for the advice. The sword pommel being wood was a choice because the knight in game has a nature theme and the sculpt looks like it has a woody texture
And the cape was low effort. It was a separate piece from the main body and by the time I got to it I was kinda in the mindset to just get it done. The shadows look a bit stronger in person, but it could definitely use more work. I also mixed in a bit of dark purple for the shadow for the green, giving it a stronger contrast, but using the same dark purple on the cap obviously doesnt create the same effect
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Is buying bases with ready made magnets and slots worth it? I'm looking at getting some from cobalt keep.
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>>98532161
It does make magnetising your bases a lot easier, you don't need to faff around nearly as much as you have to do normally.
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any anons know which brand on amazon to get for a bunch of size 0-3 sized brushes?
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Can anyone tell what model this termi captain kitbash is based on? I figure the cloak is a custom greenstuff job
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>>98532266
nevermind, it's grand master belial
he's so shit I didn't even recognize him even as a DA player
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>>98532120
Looks good, there's a good reason that brown is often used in camo like this. Tree bark and leaf litter and such.
You've basically made the camo pattern all the video game promotions are currently using.
the helldivers 2 and darktide shops currently have armor in this pattern.
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>>98532089
>>98532120
The problem is that there's not enough contrast. Look at the thumbnail, it's just green. Camo is a disruptive thing, it's supposed to break the silhouette.
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>>98519918
How do you paint fur? I want to try a few different styles, and this was my first attempt.
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I've never used contrast/speed paint before. Is this what it's supposed to look like? I was using ray studio chink contrast paint
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>>98532545
>Is this what it's supposed to look like?
I mean it looks like shit, so yeah pretty much.
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>>98532572
Well, its feel like thicker wash
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>>98532545
>warned about buying cheap chinkshit
>ignores it and buys cheap chinkshit anyway
>surprised it looks like cheap chinkshit
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>>98532538
I do the fur by lazy way - light shade first, contrast/heavy wash over and dry brush in the end.
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>>98532583
That's effectively what it is
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>>98532545
idk why other people call it shit, looks just like a regular contrast paintjob
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>>98532584
I think it looks decent for tabletop, and it only took me like 30 minutes just drybrushing it white and then applying that chink contrast paint.
Also, it's only two bucks for an 18 ml bottle.
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>>98531507
I wonder if it would be better with just two of the pieces opposing each other, they're already pretty blocky so I don't think the triangle does you any favors.
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>>98532616
>looks just like a regular contrast paintjob
yeah and that looks like shit
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>>98532640
The point is Contrast paint (18ml) $6, Speed paint (18ml) $5.5, and chink contrast paint (18ml) $2
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>>98532651
and my point is it doesn't matter which of those you use it will still look like shit
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>>98532659
tbqh it looks even shittier than the usual contrast nonsense.
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>>98532651
Woah you sure cheated the system by saving a couple bucks and waiting a month for the chinkshit to arrive!
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>>98532678
I have patience, and I'm not gonna waste my hard earned money on some shitty thick ass corpo wash paints
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>>98532696
>I have patience
Then, you know, why not just paint them normally?
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>>98532696
yeah shoveling cow dung is a pretty hard job
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>>98525865
You are aware you could just leave the site and not post, right?
Some one does a hobby project
"NYOOOOO, DO NOT DO ANYTHIIIING. YOU MUST BE SPOON FED AND ONLY SPOON FED!" ~ (you)
You are as if an Indian decided that his fursona is a crab that lives in buckets.
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>>98532709
take your meds
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>>98532698
I just wanted to try and see what the fuck contrast paint is. Also, that dragon mage mini comes with the chink paints anyway
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daily spergy time
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>>98532715
>let me try X by using the worst X available
That doesn't make any sense either, but whatever, it's your money.
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>>98532727
>>let me try X by using the worst X available
It's all just pigments, grind mix blend by sweatshop machine, not some asml euv secret
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>>98532727
crafty thought he'd buy some chinkshit and blow us all away with the results lmao
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>>98532744
Wait, that's craftsperg? That would explain a lot
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>>98532744
>blow us all away with the results
What are you talking about?
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>>98532748
>hating on mainstream hobby products
>thinking he's Warren Buffet for saving a couple dollars on hobby paints
>"decent for tabletop"
of course its him lmao
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>>98532761
It's not him, not the right filename for his type of camera, and it's missing his distinctive grain pattern.
Also not his table nor the type of model he usually buys.
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>>98532761
I'm not hating on mainstream hobby products. I just think these contrast/speed paints are too expensive for what they are, some sort of transparent thick wash. And I don't even know who the hell this craftsperg is, man
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>>98532545
Looks better than 90% of my paintjobs!
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>>98532867
This deserves a heckin updoot!
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>contrast slopping
just get inks and an airbrush bro
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>>98532858
>I don't know what contrast paints are
>but let me tell you what they are
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>>98532903
This. Preshading is literally the easiest fucking thing, too. It's arguably even faster than contrast sloppa and it actually looks great.
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>>98532904
Youtube is free
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>>98532903
inks are less lightfast than contrasts
you can do this same technique with contrasts and an airbrush btw
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>>98532917
Or with thinned regular acrylics.
>minipainting world invents filters
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>>98532598
Can you post a picture of a model you painted so I can see what that looks like?
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>>98519918
Has anybody used these dollar store brand super glue? I want to know if they’ll work fine or if I should avoid them.
>instructions say too much glue can create weak bond if I recall correctly
Is this true for all glues?
I thought less glue was used to prevent frosting.

I’ve had times when superglue created “frosting” on my metal and resins and I’m not sure what can remove the frost away without damaging the resins and metal models.
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what is your reason for not painting the bases first anon
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>>98533037
I'm not retarded
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>>98533037
I have a tendency to splash paint onto the base when I base coat.
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>>98533020
95% of all ca glues are the same thing, frosting and thickness can vary but that's about it, i have used like 6 o 7 different brands over the years and noticed no real difference
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>>98533037
what's you reason for glueing models to bases before both are finished
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>>98532538
I'd copy this now if I were painting fur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuWroaE555Q&t=1150s

>>98533020
It's all more or less the same stuff. Buy the small individual tubes, big ones dry out before you go through the entire tube. Having a fan blowing over the model prevents frosting. Acetone removes frosting and CA glue in general.
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>>98533020
frost can be cleaned basically with whatever you have at hand and its not even that dangerous unless you were planning on doing some serious drybrushing
keep looking until you find that cheap glue that suits your needs
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>>98533073
>>98533082
>>98533119
Thanks guys I’ll go with the gel glue as i believe regular can drip and slide down where I don’t want it.
I’ll see if I have acetone to remove the frosted glue then wash the resin clean again.
Now I know why glue comes in small tubes.

Who here reuses sprues for super glue testing? I might try this to test glue strength and how much or how little to apply to avoid frosting but still a strong bond.

What else should I look for when using spare sprue frame bits to test my super glue?
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>>98533226
>Now I know why glue comes in small tubes.
You can get Starbond. It's an excellent super glue (the best imo), and they sell it in variety of bottles, including fuckhuge ones.
inb4: fuckhuge ones are not practical
That's why they give you like ten small empty ones with it.
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>>98533226
gel glue can have its uses same as sometimes you want the glue to flow so you can guide it a little
good luck anon
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"frosting" is a meme. literally just don't get glue where you don't want it to be.
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Test scheme so far - first time using a mostly metallic scheme

Wanted it to look like oldschool Ork art where they have mostly bare metal - thinking if I should just get rid of the rusty brown metallics and paint it as standard leadbelcher
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>>98532761
>>98532744
When are you going to tongue his anus?
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Taking shape, now terrain paste.
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Almost done with my metal Repentia
Anyone have advice for getting better quality pictures? I know using a lightbox, im just too lazy to get it out for in progress pics. I mean camera settings. I use opencamera on an S26. I've tweaked with settings a bit but the pics always feel off
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>>98533413
wrong way up

Also trying to figure out where to actually put the yellow
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>>98533635
Special weapons sisters too
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>>98533681
how's his dakka going to come out if there's no holes?
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>>98533721
Orks have plenty of holes if you know where to look Anon
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>>98533635
>>98533693
i like the sisters and that red gives a nice retro feel to them
>Anyone have advice for getting better quality pictures
try bending a sheet of paper behind them that usually does the trick
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>>98531507
>>98532025
Where do you get clear acrylic cut like that? I need a panel cut for some non-wargaming related things, but everywhere I call wants some ridiculous amount for a custom job
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>>98534139
try local vocational schools if you happen to live near a big city
they often have the equipment and it costs next to nothing because students do all the work
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>>98533020
i used 99 cent super glue all my life
it just works
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>>98534363
How do you know if you've never used expensive super glue? Maybe you're missing out.
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forgot to post this here but gave a shot at freehand for the first time that wasn't just geometric shapes
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>>98534686
it hurts my eyes something terrible so i assume there is some phone filter involved
looks really good
>forgot to post this here
are you implying you post your work somewhere else too, you broke my heart
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>>98534747
sorry, I usually post in hhg or in my friends group chat
and yeah the wb is super off bc of the phone app
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I know at this point Trench Crusade is almost a meme, but I really like this model, happy how it turned out. Also will be easy to do a muddy base.
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how do you do freehand designs on flags and capes so it looks like cloth and not paint?
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>>98534823
highlight the cloth beforehand and highlight the freehanding to follow those highlights
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Has anyone ever tried to convert these guys into what they're described as pre-Nagash ass whooping? Bronze skin and golden feathers. I imagine they're probably resemble Ushabti to an extent. Probably look better too.
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First pass on the skin
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>>98535067
I want to tiddyfuck the witch
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>>98535067
i appreciate the effort and the cleavage but good luck ranking or playing with those in any way
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>>98535187
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>>98535187
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>>98535187
Based Chad

>>98535172
Cringe virgin
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>>98535187
Needs more with bare tit(s)
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>>98535187
You are an inspiration
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>>98534800
Some of the more subdued trench crusade models look nice. I feel like the whole thing jumped the shark before it even started though
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>>98533020
I'm also from canada.

Fuck dollarama went up in price again..

In any case, the small tubes (4in1) are super liquid and extra thin. They'll get evry-fucking-where.
Also consider them pretty much single use.

The bigger one *should* be have a gel consistency, but I've gotten batches that were actually extra runny.
The larger one will last a bit longer between sessions, but i wouldn't push it past 6 weeks tops.

Other than that, it's CA glue. It works exactly as it's supposed to work.

Also all parts of the packaging and the tube can be recycled and reused in terrain and kitbashing.
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>>98535528
>i wouldn't push it past 6 weeks tops
in this hobby what are you even doing if one tube of superglue lasts over 2 weeks
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>>98535618
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I'm really happy with the changes I made since my last mini. It's far from perfect but trying out new methods and pushing myself to be better has brought some fun back to this hobby for me. I'm really happy with how the tmm turned out and it has been a lot more interesting to work with than just layering washes like I have been.
Im debating adding osl around the eyes.
>>98535187
Honestly incredible. I love how vibrate colours you used turned out and it compliments the effort you put into sculpting well. The faces and eyes are fantastic and I like how you varried the skin tones. Also nice boobs.
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>>98535741
I like the metalic purple armor, how'd you do it?

Our sisters are like inverses of each other
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>>98535882
I used 4 paints. Violet similar to Naggaroth Night, Black for the recesses, a cool white similar to Ulthuan Grey, and white. I paint the recesses and areas that would see little to no light with black. I also shade it onto areas furthest away from the light source for contrast. Violet is my midtone and once I have that painted I mix the Grey into it for my highlights and build up the Grey until I do a final dot of white for where the white is concentrated.
Nice looking Repentia. I finished my squad before working on this new squad. The picture is awful though because I couldn't get them all in focus, oh well.
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>>98535187
thanks for posting the group shot, amazin!
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>>98535187
everyone lookin at the boobas (justifiably) but i'm super impressed how good the faces are on these gals, great work

picrel but i'm reworking the skull on top of the banner, i kinda forgot during the original painting that horns tend to have a gradient to them, instead of them just being the bone color, whoops
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How is this contrast slop now?
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>>98536178
Thanks, after I finish these sisters and some terminators I have some eldar im planning on doing in a purple scheme
Your repentia look nice too, even though I dont like the new models for them much. My (small)sisters army is all metal, so getting a metal squad was mandatory
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>>98536228
berry nice
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>>98536238
>Your repentia look nice too, even though I dont like the new models for them much.
Thanks. I don't love the new models either. It's why I tried to convert their outfit into tattered robes. I get GW wanting to move away from the look of the older range but, personal opinion, the direction they went with is boring and they could have afforded to edgier with the design.
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>>98535187
Love the differences in skin tone
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>>98532917
That's bullshit , pigment based inks are the same lightfastness as equivelent paints. Dye based inks are less lightfast but you should only be using acrylic ink; you can even see the lightfastness on the bottle if you're using art ones.
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>>98534491
missing out on what though, it's just glue
i gain nothing if it glues even harder or whatever
not even trying to be a cunt, how can there be good and bad glue when even the 99 cent one is very strong for miniature assembly applications
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>>98536665
>missing out on what though
the taste, of course
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>>98536665
I dunno, maybe adhesive strength is a thing. The mid super glue I use isn't very strong.
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>>98536665
pretty pictures and lies on the more expensive brand packaging makes the glue better
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>>98535187
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>>98535514
That's probably why I like New Antioch, it keeps the same design idea throughout the faction. Court of serpent is the worst offender, they just mixed satan and dark souls/elden ring and called it a day. Another wip, need to dirty him up a bit too.
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>>98535187
Veeeery nice, also congrats on salvaging the GW faces
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>>98535618
I mostly paint plastic models or single-piece 3D prints, I need superglue very rarely.
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WIP, not finished. Tried a few things on this model so I could figure out the rest of the squad.
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>>98536228
Really good for contrast
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>>98532917
No way you can get the colour with contrast you get with ink
You are delusional
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>>98532545
I've made contrast when they came out, if I remember it was a matt medium with a tiny bit of thinner and the colour was just from inks
Came out exactly the same, but not a fan of contrast
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>>98537288
Contrasts are well known for their vibrancy (some might say infamous).
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Want to do kind of freaky vivid green skin for my orks but the only green paint I own is Warp Lightning contrast

This is it painted over a a brown up into bone coloured preshade, but I have other areas where the preshade kind of failed completely & it's just flat green.

Any ideas what can I do to this to make it look a bit more organic/like actual skin and what colour tone I can mix Warp Lightning with for highlights and shadows
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>>98537309
>Any ideas what can I do to this to make it look a bit more organic/like actual skin
yes, it's called layering (and blending)
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>>98537309
Add some reddish-pinkish tones to the skin in select spots, this adds a lot of liveliness to greenskins.
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>>98537309
Maybe try Warp Lightning over yellow.
Making it look like skin is hard, because there's not a lot of green skinned animals around (most of them have scales) to reference.
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>>98537309
skin is a bit translucent, you can use different colors for shadows not just green, maybe add purple or bluish shadows, fleshy parts like >>98537329 says are also fine but not everyone likes that look
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What with the contrast hate? They are very good for basecoat, glaze and wash
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>>98537573
Awful for basecoat, not very good for gazing but as thicker wash they work pretty good. For making shadows on white clothes they are indeed quite nice, black and dark gray ones are also useful, over silver they make interesting effects but their use is limited compared to actual paints. Definitely not "one click wonder" they were advertised as.
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>>98537648
>Definitely not "one click wonder" they were advertised as.
I'm salty to this day that I fell for this shit when I was returning to the hobby a couple years ago
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>>98536228
Is this with the chinkshit contrast? Pretty good
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>>98537648
>not very good for gazing
Why?
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New thread:

>>98537820
>>98537820
>>98537820
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I'm new & have spent the last few weeks building up a Mega Armour focused bad moonz force

How strong do you reckon Bully Boyz will be in the new edition?



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