Work in Progress, "Colder than a ... Wyche's Tit?" Edition>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI>4 EASY Chipping Tricks For Beginnershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku4comhKHJM>Decal Like a Prohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKLiEW7p9c>How to Edge Highlighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRbYuAfbEk>How to use contrast style paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhholrozptI>How to Paint with Tremorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp76vAJu9g>Airbrush Priming and Thinninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkntrSBvXxEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjBQzoukFghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JVUxABe44https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqT_R41JX8>While you sleep in earthly delight>Someone's flesh is rotting tonighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymb-aG_lt9U>Who's Johnny, she'd say, and smile in her special wayhttps://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/JohnnyPrevious threads:>>98598045>>98576947>>98557591
To the anon with peak KDM mini. What do you mean with pastel?
Thankfully no pinning was needed to glue the legs to the torsos. Some legs did snap unfortunately while repositioning them, hence the joint protectors on one scorpion. I'll prime them tomorrow.What are your best practices for keeping plastic glue nozzles open? They keep getting stuck and I typically just burn the open with matches. Do you have another way of solving the issue, or do you just have a bunch of spare nozzles lying around?
>>98588628>>98593166Cardboard castle update:Texturing done.Made some progress with the painting.Note: The teeth of the 2 skulls are barely visible after texturing ....Note 1: Bought some "Payne's Grey" thinking it was a very dark grey, it ended up being actually a dark blue lol, the walls are much darker than I had initially envisioned now.Note 2: On the back of one of the walls, I applied a bit of thinned-down black between the stones to try and make them stand out more, but I feel like the black stands out too much...
Orange/gray LR Spartan anon here, hey thanks for putting me in such vaunted tits and ass company. Not being sarcastic.
>>98617238looks great, how did you get the texture on them?
>>98617269NTA but looks like he glued rectangle cardboard cutouts as "bricks" then did a layer of PVA and paper towel over the whole thing.
Reposting some fresh zombies for my diorama.
>>98617280I saw the "bricks" i was wondering what the other texture was. but it does look like paper and pva
>>98617269Thanks.A mix of PVA glue, paint and water applied on the walls with a brush.Then toilet paper / toilet roll put on the mixture.Another coat of the mixture (pressing down slightly with the brush to ensure the paper adheres well to the bricks / masonry.
Has anybody here tried the Vallejo True Metallic Metal paints? Like the Obsidian Black ones? They look very "shiny", for lack of a better word, in photos and videos compared to regular metallic paints.Any of you anons tried them out?
>>98617439Yeah, easy recommend. If Vallejo is doing one thing right, it's their metallics.
>>98617439TMM have been great so far. I haven't used Obsidian black yet, that sold out day 1 at my LGS.
>>98617452How would you compare them to Citadel metallics?I really like the shade of Sterling Silver base too. It has a bit of colour to it in photos and video. I like that slight colour shift, but I've never seen it in person.
>>98617488>How would you compare them to Citadel metallics?I don't have that many of Citadel metallics (Leadbelcher, Iron Hands, Brass Scorpion, and Canoptek Alloy), but Vallejo is definitely a visibly finer pigment, and the colors are more vivid. I can make you a comparison, if you want. I use the TMM range with old Vallejo Metal Color greats (Duraluminium, my love) and they are just as good imo.
>>98617519Also, they flow better from the bottle. Citadel metallics are thicc as fuck.
>>98617522The "air" versions of TMM are even thinner if that's what you're looking for. You can still use a brush with them.
>>98617519Nah it's ok, you don't need to make a comparison. I'm just curious if they actually look more kinda "shiny" in person like they seem to do in photos/videos. Also compared to Vallejo's normal stuff like the plain basic Model Colour Silver 70.997
>>98617547They can definitely go a lot brighter with their metallic sheen, if that's what you are asking. I have the Sterling Silver trio, the base color is imo a tiny, tiny touch bit colder than Game Color Silver (72.052) but otherwise very similar. The highlight color is a lot brighter, basically metallic white. It looks quite nice.
$100 for 45 pre assembled minis seems like a pretty good deal for someone that just wants to practice painting. Really sucks that its not out December 2027 puts a big damper on the deal
>>98617627>good deal for some who wants to practice No. Not really. Buying cheap reaper minis would be better and not overwhelming by having 45 minatures to paint in a single shot.
>>98617627You can get second hand 3D printer under $100 no problem and then you can print hundreds of minis for nearly free.
>>98617638>for nearly freeNot really, both alcohol and resin actually cost quite a bit. It will be cheaper in the long run, but let's not pretend that the printer is the only cost to 3D printing.
>>98617728>both alcohol and resin actually cost quite a bitThey are not free, yeah, but "cost quite a bit" is overselling it hard. A bottle of good resin is like what, $30, and it will last you a LONG time, hundreds and hundreds of minis/models. IPA is cheap as fuck, doubly so if you can get it straight from the factory, and even when having the dual washing setup, you need like 15 liters at most. And it can go for a long time, too.
>>98617233You're supposed to put one ring on each scorpion not all the rings on one, how are you gonna track the other 5?
Back to the trenches.
>>98617748>and it will last you a LONG time, hundreds and hundreds of minis/models.Nah, one liter will be less than a hundred models, and that's not counting the amount that will be wasted on test prints and misprints.>IPA is cheap as fuckAt least here it isn't, it's like 15 euros per liter. So your 15 liters would be over 200 hundred euros, though I will grant you don't need that much and it will last longer than your resin.
>>98617627It's just the nature of kickstarters. I waited years to get the reaper bones kickstarter fulfilled, only to realize when it arrived that at the pace I paint miniatures it would take the rest of my life to paint them all.so naturally I bought even more miniatures, dozens of kits from a bunch of manufacturers, and a three 3d printers.
>>98617769>At least here it isn't, it's like 15 euros per literwtf, it's 5L for $16 here. Less, if you actually take your time and contact the factory directly. >Nah, one liter will be less than a hundred modelsFunnily enough, I remember making a wager about this with a friend of mine. Ended up printing exactly 102 Empire Greatswords with 1kg of resin. Granted, that was under optimal settings, no fails, and I REALLY pushed it. But yeah, it's not hundreds, you are right. Still, the value is obvious. >>98617794>so naturally I bought even more miniatures, dozens of kits from a bunch of manufacturers, and a three 3d printers.Based. One day, when the internet and electricity goes out, I will be able to keep building and painting for the rest of my life anyway.
Practice painting on any miniature, you can just paint over or strip them as many times as you want. Buying cheap shit is a waste of money.
>>98617769Depending on how and where you buy isopropyl, there can be a lot of markup. Most people are not buying industrial quantities of 99%, but single bottles of pre-diluted 70% IPA for first-aid use.>>98617841>I will be able to keep building and painting for the rest of my life anywayThat's the idea. I have an incredible amount of respect for the people who can kitbash and scratch build from anything, but I do not posses the ability to look at obsolete electronics and imagine the dozens of things it could be remade into, or the patience to work wonders with just cardboard and a hot glue gun, so I have loads and loads of kits instead.
>>98617233You should add a pair of tiny balls to the base of the sawhorn
>>98617238I like the skulls! Maybe a different color so they stand out? There is a bit of sneaker texture for some of the stones tho, but I bet you could cover that with moss or something
>>98617627>gw is lame!>we will make the not-lame answer to 40k!>but we're going to copy exactly what GW did and become just as lame>so here is an incredibly overpriced set of plastic inaction figures!Great, now I hate space king.Why the ever-loving FUCK does every godsdamned thing need to be a fucking profit generation device?! Why can assholes these days not JUST make shit because it's a joy? This fucked up judaic mentality is every-fucking-where and it pisses me off.
>start kitbashing a bit some knightly marine for fun>immediately look forward to the next session unlike when Im batch building and painting some intercessorsIm not built for efficient army painting
>>98618277You want to play games and paint models, your mistake is connecting the two, to paint models and play games as one joint thing, just pick games without miniatures and keep your figurine painting away from your games.
>>98617452>>98617482How do they compare with Vallejo's Metal Color sets? I fucking love the paint but I'd like some non-WWII color options.
Should I prime and paint spearmen’s spears before gluing them on? I glued and primed mine first, and now I’m having trouble painting the spears without getting paint on the bodies.
>>98618426>>98617519
Experimenting with a sort of sickly unusual skintone
>>98618499It's unusual, but it's too yellow and not red or green enoughIt reads as either golden metal or a tan, rather than jaundiceI wouldn't be surpised to see a dude dipped in gold in kd though
Zenithal, then contrast to get it started.
>>98618574Vigorously titfucking the witch
>>98618574
>>98617233>Thankfully no pinning was neededyou're welcome
>>98617539Air is the best but thin as fuck, amazing even when brushed on so thin the result is better than every other metallic out there
>>98617627LmaoRarely have I seen worse modelsjust shows paypiggies have no taste
>>98617769>hereWhere?I'll find it for you at 90% off
>>98618580Imagine going to the trouble of sculpting new tits but being to lazy to simply drill the asshole
my first go at painting, working on a fangs of the blood god spearhead
>>98617627Who will be making these minis?
>>98618831No one, it's a Kickstarter
>>98618440Fuck, I'm retarded. Good to know. Thanks anon.
>>98617197>What do you mean with pastel?I mean color pastel, makeup powder, even lipstick
>>98619115an arguably easier and definitely better use of art pastels than for traditional art
Does anyone use a particular primer or other solution to hide layer lines on fdm terrain?
>>98619214I like to use cheap hardware store primers and then sand afterwards but specialized filler primer products exist
>>98617142I figured out priming with my airbrush on 3D printed models.Problem is I may have used too much thinner or water or flow improver and there's bubble marks on corners of basecoating the model with a grey paint. Don't have my phone with me right now, but generally what's the best ratio of thinner and flow improver to acrylic paint if one is in doubt? >>98618574>>98618580I got a semi chub. Good job anon. Keep it up.
>>986196731:2
>>986197601 drop of thinner and 2 drops of flow improver? Can anyone confirm this? It is late right now. Terrain and basing related. The local dollar store sells modgepodge. Is it good for being used for locking down basing flock after the PVA glues it down before painting? Or is PVA watered down good enough for this? I am thinking of making milliput "hills" and supergluing round sprue bits drilled to be "broken pipes" and rectangle sprue bits to be "bricks." Then after the superglue dries I cover the milliput part in PVA and dunk it in a tub of sand or sprinkle sand over it and that will act as piles of destroyed building rubble if that makes sense.
>>98619214automotive filler primer, the high grade, avoid the '2k' or two component onesyou can also use glazing putty like bondo, but depending on the detail it can be a pain, you can thin milliput with alhohol too and brush it on but it's kind of messyif abs/asa you can try acetone vapor smoothingthere's also purpose-made brush on self leveling resins like XTC-3D
>>98619673I do 1:4:5 flow improver:thinner:paint
>>98618752Looking nice, hope you're having fun with it
>>98619778I can confirm itPretty sure modgepodge is pva glue mate, for flock just go to a hardware store and buy a big thing of pva glue and brush it on without diluting it, that will be enoughnot quite sure what the hill bit is, but yeah that will work as terrain, but a flat board with removable terrain is better
>>98620780jesus really? what paint? That's insanely thin
How the fuck do you strip primer from miniatures? I've soaked some wraithbone primed minis in 99% IPA for 4 days, scrubbed and it's not coming off at all.
>>98621012...how is that thin?
>>98621419It's 10% paintWhat paint do you use.
>>98621378they prob used spray can primer, it ain't coming off, maybe if it was brush on or AB primer...
>>98621488it's 50% paint1 part flow improver4 parts thinner5 parts paint
>>98619673>but generally what's the best ratio of thinner and flow improver to acrylic paintDepends on the primers, but Vallejo is generally like 1 paint : 3 Vince's mix (8/2 Thinner/flow improver). Or you can get something like VMS, which moggs the fuck out of Vallejo (or any other acrylic primer, if you ask me), and it flows perfectly straight out of the bottle.
>>98621009Modge podge has the added benefit of finishing a specific way. You can get glossy or matte.
>>98617627Bottom figures look like women's contraceptive IUDs, lamo
>>98621496My badRead it wrong
After seeing Napoleons in last thread and seeing them in the shop today I decided tot get some.The sneer number is kinda intimidating, andere I'm ging tot have tot shift my mentality on how to paint, because treating these with the same level of detail as a 40k mini is going to be insanity (and from what I understand won't even get noticed anyway)
Not much painting time this week but looking more like a bad moon
>>98621378There are dedicated acrylic paint removal solutions that won't melt the plastic. I have one from Polish company that removes even thickest layers of paint but is problematic to use due to headache inducing fumes.
>>98618499It looks like some of the zombies from the "Thriller" music video. Cool, but it looks a little dry
From your own experience, what's the most optimal solution to painting minis that have elements of their bases as integral part of their models? I have now few fantasy minis that have "tactical ruins" they stand on, normally I would paint minis and bases separately but now I either glue them to bases and ensure they will fit to each other or leave them separate, making painting easier but with clear difference between the two after gluying.
Is there any valid argument as to why airbrushing primer is better than just good ol' spray can primer?
>>98621818Define better.
>>98617754Looking good anon. Where are they from?
>>98621818More control over layer thickness, more control over how much you spray at once which also translates into much less material wasted (single can runs out after 20-30 minis, single 60ml bottle of primer might last for years). Quality of airbrush primers compared to spraycan ones is debatable but also important.
>>98621916ok so it's a cost thing, but not really an issue with the final product
Miniature painting is getting too mainstream and people are getting too good at it. I have to up my game or I'll be left behind in the only thing I've ever been good at.
>>98621903Wegames Atlantic foot knights with German WW1. I cut the German torso and put the knight torso on. Pretty simple kit bash.
>>98621932NTA, but no. You will never get as good finish and detail preservation with rattle can. It's cost AND overall quality AND ease of use.
>>98621964There will always be someone better, this is how every hobby works. You don't "make up name for yourself", you just enjoy the hobby. Otherwise, you would grow to hate it or just feel bad about it.
>>98621964Based off what? Youtube videos?
>>98622035Based of the fact that there are too many egirl types who stream miniature painting now and are even at least reasonably good at it. That's the death knell for any niche.
>>98622051Exactly what I thought, GTFO and touch some fucking grass kid.
>>98622059No girls allowed!
>>98622060>the only reference I have for the social status of painting miniatures is watching thots on tubesNogames secondary faggot.
>>98621964well let's see itpost models
>>98622035NTA but just generally the quality of shit you see shared on forums, the quality of tutorials and how easy some of them are to follow, and the popularisation of easy painting techniques has made painting standards way higher than they were 10 years agoIt's the same with tons of online games as well, noobs in hobbies/games in the early 2000's were completely clueless compared to noobs today who can learn all about preshading, oil washes, & other shit in 30 second videos on their commute to workCase in pointhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DcMn0VnskoO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsi=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
>>98622112This guy's content is fucking insufferable>le me when I paint normally>le me when I follow mamikon's painting tutorials!I actually can't fucking stand it. It makes me viscerally angry. I know I shouldn't let my cortisol rise over this but it's that bad.
>>98622112you mean ONLINE standards have changed, go to the LGS's in your city and you'll see that for every hundred painters maybe 5-10 are actually decent to good and the rest of the hobby is composed of grey tide, contrast slop or literal housepaint dipping.So anons opinion, and where he gets it from, exposes him as being a literal nogames and secondary.
>>98622145I live online. I don't give a shit what the local painters are doing.
>>98622190Right, as I said, you are not a tabletop gamer.
>>98622134Yeah it's cringe as fuck, but that little video alone you could follow without even subscribing to his shit and after doing it on a few minis you'll have something that looks decent without much actual painting skill needed.>>98622145This is also true tbf but I only started collecting/painting again since feb
>>98622201That's a pretty tall hobbit
>>98621549Real pain in the ass tot paint these
>>98622201Nice work on the model anon!How did you do the wood of the gun, and skin tone and wooden base boards?I gotta stop fishing for STLs and just print the custom TC warband I've had in my mind. As much as Tuomas has made mistakes. I need to finish a warband as I wanted to due to investment into TC.
>>98618574I'm a big fan of these gooner wyches you've been making
>>98622145Personally I find the perfect place to be, like so often, is bang in the middle.My figs are play pretend soldiers, so they need to convey that visually at typical tabletop distance. That means I don't want to spend hundreds of hours painting, but I don't want greytide either.
>>98622260I fail to see how your subjective preferences weigh on the question of "do most tabletop miniature wargamers paint their figures to a high standard?"Some of the worst painters ITT are probably amongst or even are the best in their localities.Everything you see online is magnified over real life, just like with politics.
>>98622145yesmodels cannot be secondaries even if you just paintthe games are just a secondary medium to sell you more plastic, after all
>>98622306Yes, you are a secondary if you just paint, this is a GAMING board.
>>98622362How much should I play warhammer to be considered not a secondary in your opinion?
Found an old Ral Partha pug. Added some pouches to make him an ammo pup/battlemutt.
>>98622370warhammer, d&d and mtg are the three properties that playing in does not mean you aren't a secondary.I think you lose that status if you actually play something that isn't in the mainstream periphery of awareness.And you have to play as a regular thing, it has to be something you ARE not just something you do a certain number of times.
>>98622295That problem is on you.
>>98622408It's definitively on you, your comment was not germane to the subject, it shared an aesthetic veneer but no meaty substance.
>>98621818>>98621932>not really an issue with the final productCould be. How hot/wet/rainy/humid is it where you live, anon? Here in south-central Burgerland, we had 39 days this summer where the high temperature exceeded 100° F. Even when you get up before dawn and have all your rattlecan stuff ready to go at first light, you're still taking a big chance on fuzzy primer.Quality of the paint itself aside, you can exercise more precise control over your indoor weather conditions with an airbrush-and-vent-a-hood setup.>But Johnny-anon, you don't even own an airbrush!I'm also not hurting for half-finished projects that are already primed - with some even mostly painted - when the weather gets like this.
>>98622295>do most tabletop miniature wargamers paint their figures to a high standard?Why would I weigh in on this question that wasn't asked anywhere? I'm giving my shiity 2cts opinion in reaction to another anons' 2ct insight. Not a rare thing to see on a kyrgyzstani horse market bulletin board.
>>98622392So, somebody here, who posts warhammer wips, and plays warhammer... is a secondary. Okay. At least we know how seriously we should take you.
>>98622445It's certainly possible, but that's not you. You already said you're a nogames.
>>98622306This. The eye for detail in WiP has gone far beyond anything useful for games for years and years. Few and far between are the posts of people making actual armies for actual table topping. Goblina Goober anon being a prime example (not dabbing on his models/paints mind you)
>>98622453Context, where are we? We're on the Traditional GAMING forum.
>>98622423See, thats exactly why its your problem, only you are bothered by this.
>>98622469....You're the one who started bitching in the first place, this whole comment chain is in response to you whining.
>>98622445Is this warhammer active WiP poster who tabletops currently in the room with us?
Shut the fuck up.Post minis.Post WIPSDrill your barrels
I'm glad we had this discussion. I'll make sure from now on I'll only post army batchpainting wips of veteran units with at least 3 games under their belt.
>>98622487Great leading example! I think you went a little heavy on the shading with this one though.Oh and the details on the base are a nice extra touch.
>>98622465Ya, so? Welcome to life where paper definitions and what actually happens don't always necessarily line up. WiP has for YEARS accepted and welcomed posts of ANY models being painted.
>>98622509(except gunpla)
>>98622480No, as I have only chimed in with 2 replies in this entire thread, not including this post. this is not IM chat anon, there are more than 2 people ITT
>>98622516True, gunpla Bros are like the weird cousin everyone does their best to not acknowledge.
>>98622375Squad leader here!
:)
>>98622558This gave me an idea. Make sure to post your army lists along with Wips so we can validate that they are in fact for gaming and you aren't just painting minis for fun.>Oi, you got a gaming loicense for that miniature?
>>98622574I have that same turntable.Nice little space marines
>>98622574I like the freehand details on the captain's crest a lot, well done!
How soon after I prime a miniature (air) can I paint? I'm bored...
>>9862262912 hours
>>98622629air?You could do things right away but I would recommend a day or overnight if possible.
>>98622112>A collection of magic tricksThe average painter isn't any better they just have access to more magic tricks. Give these people the same tools painters from the early 2000s had and lets see how they do.
>>98622714all the same tools were present then lol they just weren't popularized in miniature paintingjust because you were a retarded kid painting babby's first models with a dollar store brush and paint straight out of the pot doesn't mean there weren't actual artist tools you could have bought at the time
>>98622145>go to the LGS's in your city and you'll see that for every hundred painters maybe 5-10 are actually decent to good and the rest of the hobby is composed of grey tide, contrast slop or literal housepaint dipping.Then there is gonna be lads like me that just basecoat and try to (and fail) to keep some coats thin like me when I paint light skin tones.And then a diluted wash to shade the model but hopefully not tint it down too much.I plan to really try with vehicles though.
>>98622425I realized that yuros don't have air conditioning so for them airbrushing is the same climate wise as going outside. lmao imagine buying gw kits when you can't even afford ac.
This was surprisingly easy and fun at the same time.
>>98622840AC is useless when you have only few days tops or 1-2 weeks above 30C during whole year. Italy or Spain have AC in most homes/apartments for obvious reasons, rest of the Europe can handle without them without issue.
>>98622904Considering more euros die from heat exhaustion than americans die from gun violence it's clearly not useless
>deciding on what IG regiment to kitbash/paint after I'm done with Raptors>would love to do Catachans, but don't wanna paint green againElysians also sound good. Or maybe Steel Legion.
>>98617233Primed them and started painting the torsos, went for a pretty bright green.
>>98622933I think it's a methodological difference that accounts for a big difference in the heat deaths. But I'll concede that western Europeans have really shot themselves in the foot with their green do-gooderism.
>>98623053Vostroyans
>>98622230Looking good though
>>98623093We didn't have heatwaves like these before.
>>98617142I took the week off from sifting sawdust for grass that DOESN'T WORK WITH STATIC GRASS APPLICATORS.
>>98623053desert storm catachans
Finally finished going through all the elves in my pile of shame, after dragging my feet for 6 months or so. I like how the trees came out and the Avatar half-elf monks were a welcome diversion after doing the battallion.
>>98623459Why would it?
I decided to try out a zenithal thing and did a base coat of metal on the drones.
Has anybody here tried cell-shaded miniatures? I think they look great.
>>98623759I haven't tried it. Those ones look pretty good though. I think it tends to be really hit or miss but can look good. Kind of lighting dependent, like nmm though, doesn't look as good under non bright pretty even lighting I imagine.Big fan of this anime figure paintjob though.
>>98623459sawdust is not strands by would it make strands
>>98623682That many subassemblies seems excessive.
>>98622855how did you get the cracks to turn out so well?
>>98623682>shadowsongIsn't it shadowsun?
almost done with these lads.
>>98623474that's really good shit, anon! Something to be proud of!
>>98624103He probably just painted the base oranges and yellows and reds then satin gloss it then crackle medium with black paint or GWs crackle version. Easy stuff.
>>98620986i am having a lot of fun. some of the tedium is frustrating but working on such a small canvas is fun cause you see the results of your process relatively quickly
ok sure, you've heard of slapchop... but have you heard of AIRchop??https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcO7DBk-034
what's the best liquid mask? I need to paint some wave serpent canopies and so I need to mask off the window part from the trim
I finished this dude when the last thread was up, but I hadn't varnished him. Tried warming the varnish in some warm water for about 8 minutes beforehand and shook it for about 5 minutes after that, and shocker, the coat came out much nicer than the previous minis. Its still a little sandy so I might get another brand of varnish and see if that makes any difference and if not then I guess Ill just have to live with it.
I’m a middling painter but I think this glow effect turned out really well.
I've got some chipping medium for tanks, anons.Should I varnish after chipping before using oils/enamel washes or pro acryl newsh if that stuff actually works? If I have to varnish then I'll just stick with sponge chipping.
>>98624640 (me again sorry)What are the "black and brown washes" of weathering pigment powders? And I've asked before but would making a moss colored green texture paste make for a convincing "collected moss" effect? Where a moss colored watered down green paint work for moss but not a large amount thing? Think rust brown watered down to water consistency but instead it is green and for moss.
a lad
>>98624317Awesome, best period of dwarf sculpts Are these real or recasts?
>>98624695thanks. They're printed. calling them done.
>>98624909Damn they look like the real thingTelegram?
>>98621378Small scratches help with stripping by giving an access underneath
Does this look stupid guys? I can't tell if it's only halfway done and that's why I'm not feeling it, or if I should strip and try a cheetah pattern
>>98624913Yes. I think I got them some time ago looking for oldhammer.
>>98624634It's alright.
>>98624933That's a pretty cool clown.
>>98624933Does it look stupid? YesShould you strip it? No
>>98623780>>98623759This seems like it would rely heavily on no natural shadows ruining the effect, i.e. bright even light from all angles. Also, having to edge highlight pretty much every single angle...the horror.Wonder how well this works/looks on a table, looks sick though.
>>98624103I slopped on green and white in splotches on a primed base. PVA/Lemer glue over everything (just barely thick enough that you get that blueishwhite hue). Then before the glue dries black over the top (sprayed on, I simply used my black primer rattlecan).I my opinion all the crackle effect paints are a gross waste of money for this effect (bottom showing through) and should be saved if you want that curling flaky effect of the TOP layer (e.g. dried cracked riverbed mud)
>>98625346Something I've wondered, but never really bothered to think THAT hard about, is if you could paint something sort of like inverse volumetrics to cancel out the shadows under average lighting conditions to make a model appear as close to flat as possible. It probably wouldn't matter for posed photos because you can just create even lighting, but idk, it could look neat sometimes, or be useful for certain effects I would imagine.
>>98624953damn they look good, got anymore?I'm part of a few groups but rarely see peak dwarfs, I have the metal first thorgrim on his throne somewhere at home
>>98623780All that time and effort, and it's used on the worst possible g00ner anime hotglue bait figurine.
>>98625392Anime gooner website, tourist. Feel free to go back to your safe spaces on bluesky or twitter
>>98623474That's insane, bro. Good work.
>>98625402No fafgot, the problem js that it is the worst possible bait figure.
>>98623088Painted the metal parts now. I think I'll paint the tips of the swords bright red, maybe the triskelion on the shields too.
>>98619673>>98620780>>98619760>>98621500Sorry about taking so long.I have some bigfoot quality pictures of a model I think I airbrush primed jus fine, but then started messing up when trying to basecoat it with acrylic paint out of an airbrush.Knowing what the problem was would really help so I could prevent making the same mistake again.
>>98619297>>98620068I've tried automotive filler primer and unfortunately it just doesn't do the trick. It's designed for scratches and isn't up to the task of filling layer lines.I should try that milliput idea, though. I've brushed on 25 minute epoxy before, but it's also a mess (and a race).
>>98624640>Should I varnish after chipping before using oils/enamel washes or pro acryl newsh if that stuff actually works?It's generally a good practice, yes. Also, if you are using water-based acrylics as your base layer (the one that will show when chipped) you might want to varnish before applying the chipping fluid. Chipping fluids/medium/hairspray are made with base layer being lacquer in mind, and they can lift/reactivate everything water-based.Test it out on something beforehand.
>>98624371>oranges and yellows and redsRed/green colourblindness strikes again.
Someone post more of their Napoleonics, I require inspiration!Though thusfar the combination of cellshading and Napoleonic models ITT along with the two seemingly never having been combined before, makes me want to do cellshaded nappies
Did a quick lil doorman
>>98625838And you go back to 40kg, maybe that would clean up this thread.
>>98621560>due to headache inducing fumes.where's your respirator?
>>98625838post your work
>>98625806love the colour variation on the skin
>>98625945Thanks, it was a quick project on a model my friend sculpted so I figured id try something different.
>>98617233>>98623088what am I looking at, anon? some kind of Chaos knights?
>>98625519Wtf am I looking at?
>>98626032These are really old real Partha metals. I guess they're some sort of chaos scorpion-men.
>>98625384thanks. got some cannon teams.
>>98623780That's not a paintjob, it's generated/filtered., look at the way the colours "wobble" during the video.Fake and gay.
>>98626289It's real, it's from a couple of years ago. https://x.com/repe_labo/status/1785943764680471040
>>98625532>it just doesn't do the trickit won't fully fill a .2 layer height print, but coupled with some sanding and several coats you can get very close, if you print at .1 you can get very close with a few coats and no sanding in most surfaces, top down stepping on shallow angles is always going to need some active filling and sandingsome random epoxy is not the same as a purpose made one, thixotropy is a thing, but yes you have a limited time to apply it, it's intented to be slathered all over so that shoudln't be an issue. I've used it, it works just fine but it's a compromiseneither of these are good solutions tho, you are fighthing layer lines by rounding and obscuring detail, fdm is just not suited for the task if you can't tolerate layer linesif that's the case, i would advice to use 3dprinting for the structure, tooling and templating, but craft details by hand with other materials so the layers are covered, depending on why you are 3dprinting terrain that might defeat the purpose tho
>>98626331>it's not fake, i saw it on twitter!Kek.
>>98625532Brush on a thin layer of printer resin an cure it as you go with uv flashlight.Make sure you do this where no natural light reaches or it'll be curing as you try to work it.
>>98626741NTA There was no AI generation when that video was made and as I recall, that guy has a whole channel full of this stuff, including process videos.
>>98626784There's multiple hour long archived streams on their channel. Retards just see things they don't understand and blame AI.
>>98626784Not AI, there is no AIBut yes, video/image generation and LLM's go back 4 years now.
>>98626814Sure, but they sucked dick back then. No way would they generate video of that quality. Either way, I found the channel, clearly real: https://www.youtube.com/@jiandao172
>>98626834That's not the same person. just the same style.https://www.youtube.com/@RepaintLaboratory/streams
>>986268344 years, yes, 2 years ago the generators were finalky doing fingers/jewellry decently.But I don't doubt that the figurine is real, just the "oaint" isn't.It seems to be done similar to how the nappiest mermaid was bleached, except that was worse because A) it was a cam version and B) most models were/are too politically correct to do tgat project.This could easily have been done with a good PAID model at the time. Hell it was around then i used FREE models to generate realistic backdrops for photos of some of my minis.
>>98626840These look believable, they're also an order of magnitude below anons clip.
>>98623759never tried it but I've seen it irl and it looks amazing from one angle, absolutely dog-shit from everywhere else
>>98626893>looks amazing from one angle, absolutely dog-shit from everywhere elseThat's just what people say about literally every volumetric approach to painting models
>>98623780This looks amazing and actually sticks to cell shading, helps that the character is (and designed as) an anime character. Often when I see some "cell shade" tutorial they end up using so many colours to transition into the shaded areas, they might as well be blending, and another mistake I see often is no clear delineation between the cells, which just undermines the entire effect.
I haven't painted squat in like 4 years, how the fuck do I get all the brush strokes out of the orange? It looks so bad, even the whites I've done haven't been this shit and chalky
>>98627001Why did this get rotated?
>>98627001>>98627013
>>98627013>>98627001I like your color scheme
>>98627013Wtf man, they're saved vertically
>>98627032Thanks man, yours fucks. What orange did you use?
>>98627039What orange did you use> Vallejo Hot Orange> AK Deep Orange> AK Luminous Orange
>>98627001>>98627032>purple and orangeI just wanted to post the gif
>>98627049Local store only had Vallejo bright orange, I'll have to look for hot orange next time
>>98626858What a silly thing to be arguing about in the world of reverse image searching. The artist posts on niconico and there are some live streams of other figures of similar style/quality on youtube.Unless of course your argument all their content is aigen, at which point I'd like to introduce you to a guy on /gif/.
>>98627013>>98627001T h i n y o u r p a i n t sD o n t w o r k y o u r p a i n t s w h i l e i t s d r y i n gW h y d o e s t h i s n e e d r e p e a t i n g s o o f t e n
>>98626899And it's not true.
>>98627037Metadata, crop it slightly and the orientation will save correctly.
>>98627115Brother I thin my paints and wait like 5-10 minutes between coats. The only paint I had issues with on that guy was the orange.
>>98627115Why do we have to keep teaching people that 1+1=2, while it's so obvious?
>>98627124Thanks
made and painted some 15mm terrain todaygood thing most of these can be used in 28mm games too and sorry for the light all that vibrant green made my camera crap out
>>98627103>if you see something repeated enough on the internet it must be true!
>>98627115I don't thin and wet blend all the time.
>Pre-thinned paint.
>>98627124you don't have to crop the image you just have to stop phoneposting. even better stop taking pictures in portrait mode like a retard and you won't have the problem in the first place.
trying something else than nomal metallic weapons for the first time
>>98627285I don't phonepost. The subject determines the angle of the camera.
>>98627318NTA but if your picture is being rotated by 4chan then yes, you are phone posting. You are a newfag and you don't know how things work here.
>>98627330I've phone posted plenty of pictures on here that don't get rotated though
>>98627339And if you had been here for even a few weeks then you would know why the ones that do and don't are the way they are because we explain this to some newfag at least 3 or 4 times every month.You are phoneposting, anon has called you out and you are now gaslighting, it's pathetic because phoneposting or not is no big fucking deal, there is no reason beyond the approval of an indentity-less internet stranger, to lie about it.
>>98627342I haven't posted anything on here in like 3 years but I've been here since 2008 nigga. I have no idea why some of my phone pictures get rotated and some don't because I'm retarded and never cared to fix it. I almost exclusively phone post because its ez
>>98627330I wasn't the one posting, dipshit. I was explaining the phoneposter how to fix his issue, scroll up.
>>98627186Stop being childish, you are impresssing nobody and achieving nothing.
>>98627280AK and Pro Acryl beat you to it.
>>98627186>here is the source material>"waah, waaah, If you see SoMeTHiNg reOEatEd..." This is you
>>98624691Neat, I like aesthetic that is clear and conscise like this, works best in a tabletop IMO. All the OTT highly detailed stuff, while cool as diormama or photography pieces, I find far too busy for on a tabletop. Excellent job.
>>98627287looks nice! sells the effect well, good work anon
>>98627280They already do that for airbrushing
First time attempting NMM.
Finished my doorman terrain>>98627539Looks pretty successful overall. you could probably do a few glints here and there brighter but its definitely giving a gold impression.
>>98627539First try? Holy shit anon that looks amazing.
>>98627544Yeah I'll add more ice yellow highlights later.>>98627547Thanks!
>>98627544how delightfully hideous
>>98626051Some airbrush basecoating mistakes I made. My phone camera is bad so I'm sorry about that. I just want to know how to prevent those problems.
>>98627664Kinda hard to say without knowing what we're looking at.
Finished this little guy, a small gifted print from a fren; while it was a pretty high quality model, I've come to really appreciate more "professionally designed" sculpts since it feels like they have far less annoying/unnecessary details that don't add much (like some of the armour detailing in this case)Also jeez I picked up a new phone recently and pictures come out looking super extra crusty, I swear it's not nearly as bad to the naked eye>>98627287Really fuggen cool, are these Cathay halberds?
>>98627707I find some if the modern GW sculpts to be going down this lath as well though. I have decided against buying certain newer models because they look like they are marketed with influeHUAGH in mind rather than people who want to play pretend wars on a a table with friends. Just silly details and hard to get to areas without using a dozen subassemblies. Sure, good stuff for Tue hour long tutorial guides and photobooths, but just a pain to paint.
>>98623780>guy claimed to be working on this 3 hours daily for 3 monthsI mean, it looks good sure, but how the fuck would it take that long. The skill seems to be more about knowing where to apply which shade, not so much the application itself.
>>98627780I'm more curious what paint they use to get it to be so homogenous and flat. Looks like it's a matte enamel, I have never seen acrylic be THAT clean and flat.
Is secret Santa still a thing? I have always wanted to take part but then never get around to it. How do ya'll avoid doxxing each other? P.O. boxes? Or just implicit trust?
>>98627539really fucking good for a first time, anon. I wish mine came out this good
>>98627799Mutually Assured Doxtruction
>>98627810Your secret santa is typically not the person you're sending the gift to.
Stumbled upon these in a charity shop, with largely intact sprues; however, I'm not much of an AoS fan. What are some cool things I can convert them into?
>>98627842Sigmarines are pretty good for kitbashing 40k marines. Also:>charity>untouchedThe chances are the previous owner is dead.
>>98627339because you took them in landscape mode with the camera on the left. the phone will always save photos in this orientation and uses metadata to rotate it when you try to view it. if you want your picture to be right side up when you post it either always take your pictures in landscape mode so they will be oriented right even with metadata stripped, or use the rotate clockwise option from the right click menu on your pc.
>>98627841>>98627810So who maintains the list of applicants? As much as I enjoy shitposting with most of you, I like less than half of you more than half as much as you deserve.
>>98627861Santa does.
>>98627867>>98627861>>98627841>>98627810My brothers in Christ, do you not know what a post office is?Ya'll sharing your real adresses on the chins? I have taken part once (not the wip one though) and my receiver gave a POB (and I myself a post office in a different town)
>>98627867There's no such thing as Santa, that's just a janny in a fake beard
>>98627842Oh, those tabarded sigmarines are great. Also GW squatted them so they are no longer available
Wip
>>98627799>Summer officialy ended 5 days ago.>Already thirsting for christmas presents.Never change you goofy motherfuckers.
>>98628053So, in case anyone was curious about what the other entry in my painting contest looks like… here it is Which one would you guys pick?Also, sorry for the quality of the pic.
>>98628118i pick number 4. i think kids should be encouraged
>>9862811815(if the blur isn't hiding flaws)>6>8some of the others definitely have spirit but if it's a painting contest and not an idea contest you can't really ignore the ones that are done to a much higher quality
>>98627539It certainly seems lovely, but why did you focus the camera on the unpainted tail instead of the headdress?
>>98621768It depends. Where the bottom of the mini is not accessible I don't glue it until painted. But where it is I glue it and just paint it as normal, accepting I will get paint on the ruin. Then when it is finished I carefully basecoat and paint the ruin, and just use more coats where the paint shows through. Otherwise it is a lot of hassle doing separate stages just for a base. Perfect is the enemy of done.
>>98627142next week ill take a better picture with all the terrain finished
>>98621768what kind of integral bases are we talking about?gw tactical shit most often than not should be just factory deleted
>>986281185, 6 or 17
>>98627707ure right anon those are cathay halberds
>>98627898unreal people give real addresses.heads up for leafs, canadapost lets you mail shit to them for free.
>>98628155>>98628174It's somewhat like these - upper guy inner clothes will be hard to access when glued to his base, lady on the other hand would be easier.
>>98627842sprue glue
>>98628214paint the guys, glue them and then paint the bases and integrated stuff
>>98627703You really cannot tell what the zoomed up showing airbrush errors are? I'm being serious and not malicious because I know my camera is poor and I had to use the zoom in function.I'm just wondering how to spray where it won't leave bubbles if that hopefully helps. Did I spray too thin or too thick? How did you guys figure out how to get it right for your models when trying to airbrush acrylic paint to basecoat models?
Will normal stripping methods like >91% iso work for removing basing material? Got an ebay model and I've never really done a rescue job
>>98628368depends on the materialI got an old RT model and it had a fuckton of sand glued down and it sloughed off after a couple nights in 99% IPA
>>98627280>paying more for less paintngbm
>>98627853Since it's all beginner's stuff it could just be an unwanted gift that got donated
I'm building a maleceptor and the seam filling on this is so tedious. Just the worst separation of parts they could have picked for the kit.
Been working on my Dark Angels backlog lately. Pretty happy with how these Infernus are turning out. Just need to do some cleanup and shading, but I'm calling it a night.
Hoping digital wip is fine. I don't like the newer space marine vehicles. Blocked out a primaris sized transport. Razorback turret isnt mine, I pulled it from some stl
>>98628198why would I want to send stuff to indians?
>>98629310you've missed the purity seals completely.
I've got a cardboard box and some cardboard for testing my airbrush.I think I got the hang of airbrushing primer. Not yet for varnishes.But for acrylic paints to basecoat models, what should I look for exactly that are indicators of a bad mixture or good mix?
Work on Big Choppy continues. Done with his head.
>>98627767That's kinda true, altho admittedly I haven't kept up with the latest GW sculptsBut I think their detailing is always a lot more deliberate, they don't do unnecessary shit where it shouldn't be "just because it could look cool"; the horseman sculpt in particular was likely a mesh for something else that got converted into a 3d print, and that made it a real pain
I think I'm past the hurdle on seam filling this guy. Whoever at gw decided to effectively cut this model on half straight down the middle for assembly is a bastard.
I stayed up until 4am to finish the traitor Chimera more photos https://imgur.com/a/warhammer-40k-chimera-traitor-guard-INQnE5e
>>98630059if it's spitting or chunky your paint is too thick or might need straining. if it's spiderwebbing then it's too thin or you have to dial the pattern down and go slower.
>>98630251Macragges honour, friend.
>>98630253Thank you so much anon. I use this general to ask stupid hobby related questions.>dial the pattern downYou mean the air compressor's air pressure?>>98630251I particularly love the weathering you did to the dozer blade. What did you do to get that effect?Same for the verdigris effects too. I gotta look up scale model tutorials and techniques sometime.>imgur linkThose always made my posts believed to be spam. Feels weird seeing it work for once.
I'm beginning to think shades aren't really my thing at all and I almost never like how they turn out or I apply too much or not enough. Maybe i'll just ditch them wholesale aside from paneling and hair, faces, maybe muscle and do shading without washes.
>>98626093Damn you even got the best (middle) cannon crewfucking jealous
>>98627428thanks anon i'm going for a simple scheme that draws attention to the faces i've realised i should probably upgrade my lighting setup because the lamp and backdrop i'm using kinda obliterate the highlights i've done
I think my super glue has expired. Even the unopened one still in the package I had for a while. :(I gotta get used to picking up the small tubes instead.>>98630436>polyurethane varnishHow are Vallejo's gloss and ultra matte polyurethane varnishes out of an airbrush versus brushing them on for select spots?
>>98630212Some of these older nid models are really a pain in the ass with all those huge gaps everywhere.
>>98630436I feel like your force would benefit a lot from just some rudimentary edge highlightso ns tuff facing up. You've mentioned you highlight and it doesn't come across in pictures but everything on the models genuinely looks pretty flat so your highlights have to be extremely subtle and non noticeable . Its a nice force and you're painting cleanly just that one thing really detracts from them imo
>>98629579You could bevel the edges just a tiny touch. I like it otherwise. Hows the egress area look like?
>>98630251Looks awesome, the dozer is perfect.
My quick and dirty board for a game of Blucher. Half the typical 3 inch scale due to table constraints.
>>98630184Done for the night. Hopefully finish tomorrow with the skulls, teeth, weapons to finish up.
>>98630752& the back. Glued to the base now and blood tank glued on. I'm glad that the light still shines through the resin when held up to the light.
>>98630752GROND! GROND! GROND!
Gyrocopter on a beer run.
>>98628118>>98628053Also some progress on my british paratrooper squads
>>98630955Looking good, what do you play?
>>98630955nice! love me some paras!
>>98630996Bolt actionI main british but I also have a german army.
>>98630998Using livestock as a play surface is inhumane, also you should brush your goat.
>>98631252What if the goat consents?
>>98630313>You mean the air compressor's air pressure?no I mean how much paint is coming out. depending on your airbrush you might be able to screw something in or you might just have to pull the trigger less.
>>98630755Ended up staying up.. Went with a bloody maw kind of thing...
>>98631445Honestly the whole paintjob here is a lot of mess.Too much black, not enough red, too chalky, doing the wheels solid gold is really out of place, the green hoses make it look almost like you're going for christmas.I could go on, but bottom line the modelling project had potential but you did not have the brushwork to back it up.
Do you guys glue the model to the base first then prime and paint? Getting back into the hobby and I find myself really enjoying basing but it feels easier to paint the model when it's already on a base
>>98631483OK, I like it personally and you're entitled to your opinion :)
>>98630313>>98630662I'm trying to make this scheme really really easy. The dozer blade is a printed decal and the verdigris is just a teal wash over some brass and then I patted the top down with a paper towel. I took a lot of short cuts since I have around 10 vehicles to paint. I'm rapidly rotating projects to avoid burn out. Working on more trees next.
I like how I do the metals here. I prime silver, then layer it vallejo terracotta, I make some scratches with pencil, and then I hit it with a dark brown sponge. I follow up Dry pigments to blend it and end with another set of scratches with a pencil.
Painted up this set over the last week (thanks, being sick)Any suggestions for additional freehand details that I could add to it?
>>98631811rust, battery acid, etc dripping from the pipesit's realistic to have the pipes just get painted in the same colour as the wall but it tends to LOOK better if it's distinguished even by just being a different shade, albeit it's a lot of workcheckers never made any warhammer miniature look worsemore weathering in general so it doesn't look like it was built and painted in this form instead of being built, painted, and then destroyed ie the inside of the broken open wall is not likely to have been painted
>>98631571>>98631597technical skill here for sure, but the thing about painting up your tank to look like a weather-beaten piece of shit rustbox, is that when you look at it on the table.... it looks like a piece of shit. You have to get close up and scrutinize to see the difference between this and something that was dipped and then heavily handled without varnish for a few years.
>>98632010Considering the sheer number of pipes I'm afraid that it'll become far too noisy and overwhelm the minis on the table if I pick them all out in metal, but I suppose an extra layer of shade to darken them down could make them more distinct without having that issue.
>>98625516Update on the scorpion-men. Man, metal paint chips super easily. Will a single coat of varnish protect these once they're complete, or will they need multiple passes?
>>98632100This is exactly what I'm going for. I want it to look rough and dirty, especially since these are going to die so fast. >>98631811Not much to do. Highlight/drybrush a brigher gold/mithril on the pipes/brass pieces to brighten them?
>>98632145
What gold do you guys use?
>>98632496Various but TTC "Dragons Gold" is my favourite gold so far.
>>98632496Scale 75 Decayed Metal highlighted with Moonstone Alchemy
>>98631557If the base is going to get in the way it goes on last. Same as with any other parts. A chunky character with a billowing cloak on a 40mm base is probably going to need to be done separate. A skinny dude on a 25mm won't.
>>98632496Rhinox Hide > Mournfang Brown > Balor Brown > Ice Yellow
Trying to paint first horse and my second atempt in nmm after the dude next to horse. Do you think i should make head hold or paint it in some other colors?`
finishing the skin
Speaking of Rhinox Hide, a couple of threads back, there was a question about a non-GW replacement. Back then, I recommended AK AFV S.C.C. No.1A Very Dark Brown as the closest one-bottle solution. I still think so, but I've searched more through my browns collection. If you don't want to mix and simply buy one bottle and be done with it, I still think the Very Dark Brown is a good solution, since it's very close to Rhinox - only tiny touch lighter and warmer. Alternatively, you can also get AP Banshee Brown, which is also very close, but also a bit warmer. However, I have also managed to mix pretty much perfect Rhinox by doing 3 parts of AK AFV Very Dark Brown with 2 parts German Camo Black Brown (70.822). Picrel. Hope it helps someone. t. browns schizo
I've got a homebrew character who's in a furioso dreadnought with the claws, ended up writing him as the previous chapter master who went down 1v1ing a carnifex at the city gates to stop it smashing them down and letting in the swarm.So I got some bits together to make him when he was the Chapter masterI'm making my sang guard and dante proxy in this same veridegris bronze style. I like the look and they're supposed to come from an almost perpetually raining planet so it kind of fits.
>>98633361this makes me think a terracotta warrior themed army would be so sick
>>98634141original glaze
>>98630641>i feel like you should paint like everyone elsehot take
>>98630436Yeah it's really hard to tell because of the lighting.
Pic with some of the boys. I decided the green tubes were too distracting on the front, and added some 'Ard Coat to the blood teeth. The skulls will be tinted greenish brownish next.
>>98634370He already is by base coating everything and barely anything else.
Haven’t posted on here in ages. Been getting back into heresy over the last few years.
>>98634627That looks fantastic, the chipping looks really good.
>>98634635Thx, jsut takes a steady hand and patience.
>>98634627damn, that looks good!
cleaning up and assembling these models is turning out to be surprisingly time consuming
>>98635088fdm printed?
calling this one done
>>98635124yes, the swords and claws were a paricularly challenging prints and they are desperately wanting for time with a rotary tool, filler primer, then a second appointment with the rotary tool. Maybe even coating the swords in thinned glues for strength.>even the 130mm base they are standing up pulled up from the bed and warped and is unusable for its intended purpose now.>and it took 5 hours
>>98635178bro... just don't. Get resin. FDM is not there yet, as much as people delude themselves it is.
>>98635178would it work better if the swords were printed so the layer lines were parallel with the long axis?
>>98635179I don't have the space or patience to print resin safely anymore. I've thought for a while about cleaning my printer and trying to run it outside, but the one time I tried it was a complete failure. Possibly old resin, or maybe it wasn't on a level surface... not really sure and I didn't want to deal with it, so the printer has been sitting in a storage bin for multiple years at this point with failed prints and resin still in the vat. Honestly if I knew anyone IRL who wanted it, I'd just give the printer in it's current condition to them for free and let them deal with it, if it still works at all.but moreover it just gets so damn tiring to constantly be told that I'm doing every aspect of the hobby wrong. It was the same when I tried painting Gunpla kits too.>>98635252They are so thin that there is no way they can ever print that well. Even with resin, the parts would come out extremely delicate. I don't know why they are that thin in the sculpts. The original plastic swords from the kit are chunkier than that.>had some unpainted resin printed tyranid warriors in the backlog that were going to be a KT21 kill team>then KT24 happened>and every single model has broken both ankles and will need gap filling and sanding to hide the join
>>98635289>Even with resin, the parts would come out extremely delicateNowadays people use resin with a bit of flexibility so models don't shatter if you look at them funny.
>>98633799Yesssssssss
>>98635325>Nowadays people use resin with a bit of flexibility so models don't shatter if you look at them funny.Some etsy sellers are yet to receive the memo
>>98635384that's on you for buying from etsy
>>98635472>>98635472>>98635472Move. Now.
>>98635289You don't have 1 square foot of extra space? Do you live in a sardine can? You don't have the patience to not drink the resin? Are you a downy?
