Work in Progress, "Weekend Approaching!" Edition>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebin:https://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD>WIP Tutorial Images Megahttps://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s>Paint thinning 102https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI>4 EASY Chipping Tricks For Beginnershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku4comhKHJM>Decal Like a Prohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKLiEW7p9c>How to Edge Highlighthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRbYuAfbEk>How to use contrast style paintshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhholrozptI>How to Paint with Tremorshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp76vAJu9g>Airbrush Priming and Thinninghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkntrSBvXxEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjBQzoukFghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JVUxABe44https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqT_R41JX8>Who's Johnny, she'd say, and smile in her special wayhttps://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/JohnnyPrevious threads:>>98791741>>98771506>>98745124
Hello /wip/, today I painted a cute redhead for my diorama.
>>98806157Cute. Highlight the hair with some ochre
>>98806157Is she single?
>>98806248No, but she has a twin sister>>98806172I considered orange, but ochre might be more fitting.
>>98806295Post the twin.
Hello /wip/ here's my finished Macedonian successor phalangite. I've had this mini in my box for more than ten years and decided to paint it after recently painting a Roman from the same company. I wanted to paint a phalangite from the main phalanx, a settler given land in return for service in major campaigns. The successor kingdoms of Alexander were very wealthy so I went as garish as possible for this one but still based on historical finds.
The entire mini! If you'd like I can post the Osprey art with the shield I copied.
Hey /wip/ I finally finished my diorama. That fucking lens flare/ starburst, whatever the fuck it's called, almost made me go insane. Plastic was too brittle, paper too frizzy. So I made some strings with resin and finally used sandpaper too make it finer. This was the fifth iteration, after some broke during sanding. If any one has a better idea.
>>98806377That's epic.
>>98806377Very cool anon.
>>98806377Noice
>>98806377Hey, that's really cool, good work, it looks great.For future reference, this is the kind of thing metal is good for. cut the parts out of a tin can or something, or just use needles, or wire or whatever. If you wanted really accurate, thin but rigid brass sheets would also be good to cut it out of.
>>98806377cool as fuck. Peak Heavy Metal feel.
>>98806377I would have used a soda can for the starburst. Thin Aluminum could have been cut to size, bent into shape and it holds primer pretty good. Just be sure to wash the can out before hand so it's not sticky with dried pop.
>>98805976>You'd just think people would get pissed like meyou said it yourself> for the first time in years you are not the target audience, you seem to have a working brain>Also, I don't really think modern minis have more detail.they have more detail, not necesarilly better detail, but more belts, seals,buttons, straps and thingamajigs, and when you have more detail going in different directions (like a purity seal on the knee and another on the thigh sideways) suddenly you can't mold that leg in one part because your mold only has two sides, so you have to split the leg down the middle in a non-straight line to accomodate each seal facing sideways or whatever>I've just been so fucking frustrated about it I wanted to vent to somebody who knows what I'm talking about. buy somewhere else, old secondhand models, metal, resin, or look at what other companies are doing, like victrix, frostgrave, archon or whateverthere are plenty of good models out there that aren't gw
>>98806348nice toes
>>98806125actual previous thread:>>98791741
>>98805942these look great. the snow came out looking like snow. next time, i'd underpaint the base more, with leaving it black it looks unfinished in the areas where it shines through.
>>98806502you can have molds with more than 2 parts, but gw doesn't seem capable of making them.
>>98806731>>98806731ofc, but those are more expensive, need new injection machines, more engineering and wear out more, gw wants none of that
>>98806377>So I made some strings with resinMan....I thought those were toothpicks.
Don’t know if this is the right thread, but this is a monster I am working on in nomadsculpt, perhaps to use as a beast of nurgle.Any feedback much appreciated
>>98806606Thanks, I was not sure what colour should I use for ground under the snow, however. This is arctic planet so I assumed that I should paint it very dark (contrast dark grey over dark brown ground paste), only ran drybrush with light gray over it.
Anyone know if this Martian Fluor Grass stuff is any good?I'm a newfag and can't tell if it's any goodhttps://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/527-martian-fluor-grass
Added some gribblies, cleaned up the trim, and filled in the screen. Ready for base paint on the real space side.
Psycho crystal patch based and foam double coated in pva water. Webway side ready for paint!
>>98806835He thicc
>>98806606>>98806887Looks fine to me, rocky mountain peaking through snow often looks pitch black from a distancet. Norwegian anon
What is it with Spanish hobby companies and either AI slop or other questionable business practices?
>>98807282Whoops
>>98807282Why do you care so much?
>Ninjon and Warhipster love tone pro>Richard Grey and Vince don't like themReally at a crossroads here. Guy at my GW store also said they're great.
>>98807286I was gonna post the same thing but with scale 75>>98807282
>>98807877Oh no, now you'll have to think for yourself.
>>98807877>Guy at my GW store also said they're great.No shit sherlock.Figure it out.
>>98807877if I had access to AK paints I think I would just dismiss GW paints as useless and performative but I dont really get them for a decent price in the states.
>>98807877>2 guys literally paid to say they like something>2 guys giving an opinionyeah man, its tough to pick who to believe. also, its just paint, its not magic. if you dont mind the pots or cost its just fine.
>>98806887>>98807156as a leaf, you're right. my only problem is with black rim, it makes the top seem unfinished. in isolation, it looks fine. I'd go with a nice mid blue maybe? or rim whiteThis is just one anon's opinion too, if you like them then leave them. I'd be happy to table against you with that paint job
>>98806731Baneblade kit has slide molds, and afaik, some of the newer HH tanks also.
>>98808246Yeah, baneblade uses them for the weapon barrels, so they're all in one part and don't need drilling.You can tell if a mould uses them based on the fact that the sprue is missing one edge, which is where the extra piece(s) of the mould goes.
>>98807877>the guys that GW paid to have a vacation happened to like the paints>the guys that GW just sent paint in the mail didn't think it was that greatreally hard to figure out isn't it?
>>98807350Because AI slop is for retards
>>98807350Nta, but a company that sells paint and paint accessories should be extremely anal about color and value of art. Otherwise it looks like they don't care about the thing they're trying to sell you.
>>98807877Get one to try?
Twenty more dudes coming along.
Getting there
>>98806125Think I'm mostly done outside of cleaning a spot or 2. Was pretty fun trying an undercoat technique. Used blue for the squig and purple for everything else. Really helps define the lines when you're 3/4 feet from it under regular lighting.
>>98808488Worse, they mailed Vince some pots and they spilled en route.
>>98808599>>98808708I'm not buying their art, I'm buying paint. Stop being pretentious.>>98808891Looks pretty cool. The pictures is a tad overexposed.
>>98809460>I'm not buying their art, I'm buying paint.An art supply company that can't even use their own product in branding? Not trustworthy.
>>98807877I really, really hope this is a bait. If so, it's excellent.
>>98809489It's a flavor image. You think GW's artwork is done with their paints?
>>98809513Slop is a yucky flavour.
>>98807282>>98807286You are being unreasonable anon. Where would they get the image of a cool demon painted with their paints to make it? Commission one of the thousands of paint people who paint because they are thirsty for attention? That would take tens of dollars. Much better to have a mechanical homonculus make up a fake one for free
>>98809527that shitty demon predates ai
>>98806377Beautiful anon. Are those 3D printed? And is the OSL hand painted or airbrushed or both? Either way it looks good. My first thought was He Man's "I Have The Power" thing.
>>98809513Vallejo makes a range of heavy body artist's acrylics and I got a popup with a sloppa dragon when I went to check if the range still existed.
>>98808007>This is just one anon's opinion too, if you like them then leave themTrue but I also treat every opinion as valuable. Even if I don't agree, I can always learn something from it.
>>98807877Richard Gray is the only good painter out of those
Today’s set up
>>98809793wow, you actually chose the one craftworld scheme that looks like ass even if it's professionally painted.
>>98809650everything predates AI, AI doesn't yet exist.That LLM's seem intelligent to you is a condemnation of your "intellect".
>>98809833Pseudo-intellectual semantic argument.
>>98809842That's funny when you literally only have a pseudo-intellect
Lions of Jabir
>>98809793Ignore the crab bucket.Nice army, is that Defqon 1 or something?
working on some Australian hobbit special forces
>>98809824I don't think you can expect someone on AIDS medication to make clear-headed decisions anon.
>>98809833if you weren't an obvious troll i would think you are autistic
>>98809824fuck you! Iyanden is cool.
>>98809989
>>98810078Relevance?
>>98809833Your definition of AI is incorrect. Don't berate other people when you don't know what you're talking about.
>>98810094I generate my models with aiThe way i look at it its way more creative and hands on than painting space marine #37
>>98810122How do you generate them?Also no, it's less creative. If you made them yourself you'd be correct.
>>98810122>The way i look at it its way more creative and hands on than painting space marine #37NTA, but it's even worse and less creative. Coupled with those shitty prints it's a particularly cursed combination. Have some standards, anon.
>>98808804Not enough dakka.
>>98810139I describe my vision, for the centipede i posted a while back it took hours of iteration before i could 1 shot it on meshy.>>98810148I dont get the hate, they r game pieces, i handle them roughly, they bring me joyFar closer to my vision than kitbashing allows, but i do love kitbashingThey r just duuders at the end of the day
>>98810122>I generate my models with aiWhat gen? I want to archive models as printable STLs using AI generated models of already made models so they don't get lost if the company goes under. I'm no sure if miniatures have "abandonware grey areas" in the models being distributed because they aren't being produced anymore. I would love to archive the WGA Death Fields line of models as stls in case WGA just suddenly shuts their doors. But I'm not sure how good scanners are and how much digital cleanup is necessary.
>>98810191>I dont get the hate, they r game pieces, i handle them roughly, they bring me joyNo one is hating because they bring you joy, but because you suffer from the usual slopper delusion that you are (more) somehow creative by using slop.
>>98810198All I'm saying is I can get closer to my vision, warhammer is not my fantasy>>98810207My go to is meshy, but i use gpt to make my images
Can anyone recommend swords for kitbashed death cult assassins?
>>98810198NTA but I'm writing a book here.I think a lot of AI hate is a bit hypocritical from artists because for decades "post modern art" that is really just talentless hack jobs on canvas or as sculptures selling for millions has been around for too long. And I don't recall there ever being a huge movement to stop that bullshit and put actual talent back on the walls of the art museums.Now AI is here and suddenly artists are running around saying it is talentless bullshit. Now they are saying that art should have some talent and skill involved. Even the sloppiest of paintjobs on miniatures are better than post modern art because they take effort and a bit of skill. Even your rushed basecoat+acrylic wash jobs on miniatures had more talent than the banana taped to a wall or the line of black canvases or voice of fire. I'm not gonna pretend that AI art is good. Or that I am creative because a machine hallucinated stuff. My imagination was shot long before AI. I just think it is stupid that so many pretentious artists are upset at AI when they had so much time to call out post modern art, but choose to do so now because plebs like us not in their clique can now be talentless and produce visuals with a machine.
>>98810215>My go to is meshyHow good is meshy for using 360 degree shots of miniatures to be archived as STLs? I think /grog/ and /3dpg/ were all over it before, but I forgot what generators they were using for archiving minis as STLs.
>>98810191>>98810215These look bad. I'm glad they make you happy but the FDM prints plus the A.I. generated minatures is a terrible combo>>98810219K? But none of us are "artists" that tape a banana on a wall and call it art. We are just minature painters here. If anon cobbled together those minatures from kitbashing or sculpted them himself they would be pretty good because it took effort and skill to do but the very apparent FDM lines coupled with the lazy AI gen makes them look like shit.
>>98810229Idk, just ask ai, thats not my workflow, i really just try and feed it 1 solid concept slop gpt imageIm just learning and exploring, but im starting to dial in my print settings and they r getting better
>>98810219No one talks about or gives a shit about modern art galleries. They're a money laundering and dick measuring scheme for rich people, little else.The artists that are complaining, are the ones in the trenches, working in games, commissions, animation, etc.
>>98810239The talk about AI art made me big mad as it reminded me of the hypocrisy but I know not all artists are part of the problem.I don't think the anon is pretending that he is some skilled digital sculptor. Or if he is then I missed the post when I scrolled up to check. The FDM lines don't help at all to be honest. It is gonna be a while before FDM catches up with resin. And even when FDM catches up I wonder how good resin printers will be. Assuming there is no technological stagnation or "enshittification" for the technology. >>98810250>No one talks about or gives a shit about modern art galleries.I care. They should be filled with talent.>They're a money laundering and dick measuring scheme for rich people, little else.Yeah I should have mentioned that part. It is nice that clique is suffering. But the money laundering will continue unfortunately. >The artists that are complaining, are the ones in the trenches, working in games, commissions, animation, etc.I should have mentioned those ones are the ones I feel real sympathy for. I was seeing red.
That people hold up the Mona Lisa as some sort of pinnacle masterpiece of art says a lot about how much people actually value art for art's sake. Modern AI makes shit every day that shits on the Mona Lisa and yet secondaries and non-artists will shit on it as "slop" for no reason other than feelings.
>>98810219>>98810273I think beyond the strawman spergout, the main problem with your argument stems from the fact you are not able to determine what art actually means.English word "art" comes from the Latin "ars," which means skill, craft, or workmanship. Ars comes from a Proto-Indo-European root that means "Put something together." Germanic languages use "kunst," which comes from a Proto-Germanic word (kunanna) that means "to know, be able to" (btw English "can" comes from that word, too, which should give you another hint). All Slavic languages have the word art tied, again, to the skill, craftsmanship, etc. Finally, if you go to a literal fucking dictionary, you'll find this under art: >"the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects (also works so produced)."Or>"skill acquired by experience, study, or observation">"a branch of learning">"an occupation requiring knowledge or skill"etc. Noticed something? It's not about the result. Art is not a painting, song, or a statue, it's about the good, learned, skilled/improvement-based process of human creation. This means that neither a turd on a canvas in a post-modern gallery, let alone some shitty slop, is art. It's not, and in the case of slop, it can't ever be. I'm pretty certain that if sloppers would stop pretending like they are somehow creative, the backlash would be a lot milder. Even the dingus itt opened up he thinks it's more creative than painting a marine. When it comes to post-modern garbage, other anon already said everything. It's not even art, and even during it's heyday that's now long gone, there was never any general agreement about it.
>>988103231/10 made me reply
>>98810324Art should be critiqued solely on what it is - not how it was made.
>>98810329No.
>>98810329>every single language that matter on planet should change it's meaning because I feel like itMental illness.
This is /WIP/ not some AI discussion general so kindly get back on topic with actual models and/or painting techniques or get the fuck out. Honestly, I'm tired of this whole bullshit literally everywhere else.
>>98810191>it took hours of iteration before i could 1 shot it on meshy.Man, it's just writing a couple of sentences, AI sloppers are truly among the most cognitively bankrupt beings in the planet.Sculpting, even on the computer, does take actual hours of work and iteration for a result that's going to be infinitely more soulful, worthwhile and beautiful.You speak about your vision and call AI close enough, Scotty, but that's mediocre. Actually sculpt it yourself and materialise your vision completely, there is no close enough.
>>98810329You'd be a shit art critic if you never discussed technique
>>98810219>post modern artThis nigger is still beefing with 70 year old paintings lmao.Skill and execution have been back at the forefront of art fairs and big biennales for decades now. If you're only getting the ragebait articles about the taped banana in a show full of interesting and skillfully crafter artwork, then you may just be an ignorant fool, deepthroating cheap bait.
>>98810426https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcYl70vq_Ns>posted 3 years ago
>>98810246>My visionIt's literally just troon crusade flavoured slop Many such cases
>>98810348Nice minis anon, what paint did you use?
you can't spell paint without ai
>>98810497
>>98810348Anons process disgusts me in multiple ways from start to finish, using an LLM to generate an image, taking that to an STL generator to get the file and then putting the thing into an FDM printer instead of resin.Anon could only disgust me further by stating the paints used were citadel contrast or tone.BUT, anon is still far better to you as he is making, painting and posting minis. And the resulting discussion you're bitching about is centered on that actual contributory work.
AI is fine, it understands color theory better than I do and knows a lot more about how to mix paints/colors. I haven't had any issues.
>>98810506I'm regularly paint and post minis here AND I'm sick of AI-lmaos discussion shitting up every corner of the internet. It's that simple.
>>98810603>eating shit is fine, I eat shit all the time
In the meantime, I accidentally glued missile racks for minis I glued right now the opposite way. And it's cement so I cannot rip it off anymore. You can laugh at me now.
>>98810605No you don't, you regularly bitch here and that's it.Anon has the testicular fortitude to attack his views and methods to his actual painted minis, proving he has the place to voice those opinions and methods, however objectionable be me.Anon is a participant, you are not.
>>98810633*attachFuck.
>>98810616you can totally rip it off, it just won't separate cleanly at any sensible seam
>>98810616the connection is a straight line, just saw it off and clean up both sides nice and smooth before putting it back correctly.I ill laugh when you reglue it in the original incorrect position though.
>>98810633My minis regularly make into WIP collage, you pathetic faggot. And while I'm tolerant toward many things, even AIshitters forcing their crap toward everyone's throats, I don't want this whole "discussion" about if it's "art" or not to take majority of the thread. It's even worse than whole contrast paints or "craft paints" shitposting. So shut the fuck up and stop making up stories about anyone not agreeing with you.
>>98810655you don't post minis so that's impossible, all you do is bitch, bitch, bitch.And this time you've crossed the line even further than usual, the anon you're bitching about HAS POSTED MINIS and is now discussing his process.
>>98810643Nope, tried few times. I guess the only way now is "reverse" the pegs by cutting the ones standing out and drilling holes in their place, while placing similar ones into existing holes.Piece is supposed to be attachable via magnets so it could work.
>>98810654Not exactly straight but it could work. Good point.
I just think they're neat, anyway it took me 9 days to direct and print them, pretty happy with the result and excited to field my duders next campaignI like to paint fast and loose and cuz these guys cost roughly 5 dollars in filament and are infinitely spawnable and tweakable by me now that there is very little pressure to perform a certain way
>>98810603>it understands color theory better than I doI'm beginning to understand people that claim there's no difference now. They're usually the same people that don't consider art valuable unless it serves some function or can be sold for monetary gain. Its the same people that cannot value aesthetic for aesthetic's sake. They feel that art is the end product and not the creative process.>>98810506We're like a few years from having robot arms that can paint miniatures for you, and I'm sure people will be entering them in competitions. For further consideration:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VlkMuo2Zcs
>>98810324Good points anon. I think you've nailed why I have a distaste for the post modern memery that makes a lot of people suspect modern art is a money laundering and why actual artists hate AI slop.I just didn't have the words just like I didn't look up the definition and etymology of the word "art."
>>98810603>"I am too retarded and unskilled to understand that AI is shit, so I don't see the problem."We all know, anon. Being retarded is like being dead, the only one that has no issues with it is you.
>>98809824False>>98810039Thanks anon, it’s burning man, who made who are playing >>98810074A fellow patrician. Very nicely done mate. I like the purple accents. Are these air brushed?>>98810066 Not following, perhaps you should take your own meds
>>98811153>mass reply faggot likes itWell that just confirms that it's shit taste.
>>98811205>4 replies>mass replyingNTA, but you need to go back.
>>98811209maybe if you stopped feeding every shitposter ITT attention they'd stop doing itwild thought
>>98811147Wow, you didn't truly read that at all, just let your blind hate for AI make your reply for you.Good job outing yourself fucktard!
>>98811238No he read it perfectly, sorry you seemed to misunderstand his replyMust've had chatgpt read it for you
>>98811221Anon, you are the shitposter.
>>98811147yeah, how dare I use a tool to cut out spending years to learn about mixing colors together from different brands and different types of medium.same reason i don't buy brushes, I grow my own russian weasels. i don't want to use fancy tools, otherwise I might not get the "real" experience of art.fucking luddite retard.
>>98811430>muh just another toolYou are a lazy, creatively bankrupt queer. AI won't fix either of these things.
>>98811430>trying to use luddite as an insultcattle moment
Okay, maybe someone here would have some idea.I'm trying to put together mini from one crowdfounded game and this is one of those moments where poor mold quality hits the worst. Outer holes on left part are too "high", don't know how to properly describe it but they cannot get all the way down on pegs on right part, the square part under pegs block it. Normally it wouldn't be much of a problem but some cleaver designer decided to make side parts for the torso on the right to fit exactly position of that left part - and since it misses something like 0.2mm or around from getting all the way, whole construction simply refuse to fit together.The problem is - I don't know how to sand down those elements where the holes reside. I cannot get here with either file or knife. Already had to drill out the left hole since it was filled with material, clear mold imperfection. Wasted whole hour already, trying to figure out why the part refuse to slide exactly how it should. Whole experience so far brings back memories of cheapest scale models. Anyone with some idea?
>>98811430>how dare I use a tool to cut out spending years to learn about mixing colors together from different brands and different types of mediumHuh, AI mixes your paint for you?
>>98811515Do you have a dremel or equivalent?
>>98811515you can carve away the squares with a knife, or jsut get rid of the pegs alltogether and file the squares
Never building anything arachnic themed ever again. How can people field 3 defilers in an army is beyond me.Thank God I don't play 40k competitively
>>98811896I didn't elaborate, I dread painting identical copies of the same thing x6. Especially when I'm working with laquer and also need to wear a mask.
>>98811879>>98811800That dremel suggestion gave me idea - I do have equivalent but it's rather large and unhandy for minis BUT I also have tool set for it. Used one of the bits for sanding with hand and voila, managed to connect torso sections together. I'm sure that 60-70 years old scale modellers see no problem with tweaking of parts to make them fit but that was a bit too much. But done!Thanks!
>>98811905NTA, but what's the kit anyway?
>>98806415>>98806492>>98809683Thanks everyone and good ideas. The models and the broken weapons are all Kingdom Death Models. I had lots of spares. I'll try the soda can method. I've already looked at starburst STL files, but they are all too big, don't know how it will come out if I scale it down.
First pass on this Orktober project, oil paints.He’s gonna be white but the paints were mixing too much so i’m letting the browns rest until I can apply the white again.I was gonna do pink for the wings but it looks way too out of place and I’m wondering what I should change them to.
>>98811946Here’s a side shot to show the wings more.Obviously it’s not shaded or highlighted yet but I think the pink midtone is still too goofy.
>>98811951Make the wings magenta to be a real punch in the eye
>>98811931"RDL Cavalry" from "Ember: Obsidian Protocol". Looked quite interesting on paper and I liked the design but mold quality is somewhat lower than expected. I would need to out them all together to voice full opinion, however. Fun thing that developers actually expect you to swap parts (arms, legs, torso, backpack) around by using magnets and provide enough in each set. So far, based on manual, arms looks like movable but legs are monopose.To be honest, I'm mostly interested in painting them, I don't even plan to play them. It's fairy new stuff, too, so time will tell if it will grow or fade into obscurity.
>>98811905No problem. I use a glass engraving pen with bits like that but finer for lots of mini adaptions. Those pens are fairly light, so they're easy to handle for more detailed work.
>>98812013Thanks anon, appreciate it.
>>98809793IKEA lamps added today for evening sessions. Pretty effective for very cheap.
new paints are available, that'll be $10 thanks paypiggy
>>98812049For another $1000 you could of got a redgrass light that does the same
>>98812055Anon, please stop being retarded.
>>98812055Essentially tried to recreate that as cheaply as possible. Pretty happy with the results. Here’s a very much WIP mini
>>98810616I won't laugh at you for putting shit on backwards since everyone makes that mistake sometimes. I will mock you without mercy for not even attempting to fix any of those seams. seriously nigger at least fucking clean up the sprue gate.
>>98811951Hmm ye even with your considerable skill the pink doesn’t quite fit. Not sure what would though. More brown might go if the rest is going to be whiter but then it might be a bit of a boring mini colour wise
Made a little progress tinkering with it. Had to use another staff part because I ended up making the other one too short. I'm going to take a skull off these shields and use it as a belt piece and maybe cover the purity seal with the other one. Still a bit stuck on that.Someone in the last thread suggested adding the rings like on a monk's staff, which I'm leaning more towards since the Hexwraith flaming chain bits would be a bit much. But now I'm wondering if I should go with rings, clusters of round jingle bells, or just a couple of traditional shaped bells like the Skaven use. All of which I'll have to try sculpting myself.
>>98811980that pink is a mix of yellow pale and quinacridone magenta.
>>98812076That will have to wait since I guess I would need some kind of filler for that, classic method of using cement to melt and press edges didn't work.
>>98811946The infill on the footprint is pretty noticeable. When I did the exact same model I used sprue goo and then scribed matching scale pattern lines across the filled-in footprint.
>>98812142why didn't you fix the parts before gluing them together? now it will be harder to clean up the seams because the other parts are in the way.
>>98812225I admit it was not very smart.
>>98809793comfy set up, anon. hope you enjoyed the painting sessionthis week I finished my kasrkin for kt. they're the old metal models but I like them, and since I'm just gonna use them to play with me mates they're good enough. I'm thinking of painting some old metal marine vets for kt too
>>98812142>some kind of filleryou have sprues and plastic cement, it's not rocket science
>>98812344I still don't see the point of this when you can just use 2 part epoxy.
>>98812447a bottle of tamiya ultra thin is cheaper and easier to use than miliput.
I've got 10 of the new saurus warriors and maybe 14 of the skinny 6/7th edition warriors that I cant seem to sell. Problem is my armies are aos khorne and nurgle. I think the easiest conversion would be bloodletters but I run a mortals army in khorne. What do you guys think would be the easiest unit to convert them to?
>>98812447he implied he has no putty on hand so, it's a good enough readily available tooli also wouldn't use it over putty
>>98811153>>>98810074 (You)>A fellow patrician. Very nicely done mate. I like the purple accents. Are these air brushed?Thanks. As in the pink accents? No, standard brush painted. The yellow is airbrushed.
Spooky scary dwarfs!
Anyone have experience using staples, paperclips, or thin wire for making bits? I want to use a few staples to make rings and they'll need to be bent into essentially perfect circles. I'd planned on making them using greenstuff but at the thickness I need I think this is easier.
And my Halloween costume this year
I haven't bought brushes since last decade.It looks like Golden Maple has completely dominated the Amazon market for miniature brushes?I grabbed a pack because they're cheap and they seem... fine? Dunno, last pack of cheap acrylics I bought was from a craft store. These seem better than the brushes I started with, but not as good as my Army Painter natural fiber brushes.Unfortunately my Army Painter brushes didn't do well in storage for some reason.Anybody else using these?
>>98812815Not really, but I would wrap it around a towel and set it with glue. That could work well for rings
>>98812673>>98812540I wasn't talking about putty, I meant something like 5 minute epoxy or jb weld.
Miniatures were finished Tuesday, picture is from yesterday. This morning i realized i had missed and messed up a few things and went back to correct them (the buckle on Gandwarf's belt, the hair tie on stoic dude's braid, and finecast dwarf on the left doesn't have sharp features, those are part of his helmet) Currently working on the next batch of 6. This is half the size of my usual batches but it's nice completing miniatures in 10 days or so.
>>98812809Love these dwarfs, anon. You painted them really nicely. Where did you get them?
>>98812958Thank you! I dont like painting zombies so it was good practice.They're from oldschoolminiatures BTW. Great oldhammer style 28mm metal dorfs and he started doing up kev Adam's goblins. I like his halflings too
>>98812891I know WIP will execute me by firing squad but to me buying brushes always felt like a lottery. I used to buy very expensive brushes. From artist stuff (long before there were miniature specific brushes) to staples names of our hobby.What i found is that often it didn't matter how much i spent on brushes, it felt like luck. I'd buy multiple of the same brush at the same time from the same store and I'd have them behave completely differently from each other with one being fantastic for months and another splitting and curling within the first 6 models.And what can you realistically do at that point? It's not like i can return it to the store months later, so I'm now out 50+ dollars for a kolinski or WaN brush that barely got me through a single rank of troops.Then one day i bought one of those cheapo 10 CAD set for 15 or so brushes on amazon and fuck me I've been using their number 6 for the past 300 miniatures. Absolute beast of a brush, it does my basecoat, layering highlight and washes and it's still as good as when i used it the first time.Again, this is more luck than quality but i will absolutely take it. Once it does get past its prime I'll try my luck again with another set.
>>98812891yeah man. they dominate amazon because its 2 dollars a brush. the quality is fine, which means beginners and lazy intermediates who dont want to properly clean brushes can just replace them. its me, im the lazy
>>98812891>>98813072>>98813074There is nothing wrong with buying stacks of cheapo brushes and using the ones that are good by lottery, but if you ARE going to buy an expensive brush, do your research.You will find that the tail hairs of the winter coat of the male siberian red weasel from the tobol region are the ultimate desired acrylic/watercolour brush hairs and that a vanishingly small number of manufactures promise this specific material provenance.da Vinci of Germany is one such.But please, do NOT just take my word for it and do the research, in todays world when the wealth of human knowledge is at your fingertips there is no good excuse not to research nice things before you spend money on them.
Why are there so many canadians here all the time, what is going on?
>>98813173And from what do you make this inference?
>>98813183Somebody above is talking about canadian monopoly money. But canadian stuff comes up more than I would think it should in general.
>>98813189OH okay, so you didn't figure out that my repeated phrase of "figure it out" is the leaf equivalent of "go fuck yourself"?
>>98813196I'm confused. There is only 1 other instance of 'figure it out' in this thread, and it's like way up there and seems unrelated?I didn't say anything rude, why you heff be mad?
>>98813196>>98813217why do finnish people need to constantly announce they are from finland at every turn even if it has nothing to with anything
>>98813173 This is the internet, there are all kinds of people here. Your reaction baffles me
>>98813109>>98813074>>98813072Thanks, lottery might confirm my suspicions on brushes in general. God knows I found I prefer buying brushes in person to confirm they aren't lemons.Other question, in hindsight were the Army Painter brushes with the white triangular grips decent? I liked them a lot, but they haven't held up well over 6+ years. I think they averaged like 10$ a brush if you bought them single. Granted, I really didn't take care of them well. Oddly, The Psycho, smallest brush they make, is like mint despite how fragile and how much metallic detail put that to.
>>98812891>they're cheap and they seem... fine?If you're okay with how they work and the price doesn't offend you, they're fine. About half of my brushes these days are Golden Maple from the local store. I'd rather have a mediocre brush in good condition (that I can verify myself before buying) than a theoretically excellent brush that costs much more and may or may not arrive in good condition. And, as we both know, when a brush shits the bed (as all brushes eventually must), it doesn't feel nearly as bad when you know that its replacement will only cost a few dollars.>>98813072You've discovered one of the problems with expensive brushes. The great ones are expensive but great. The shit ones are expensive but shit. You pretty much know what you're getting when you purchase a well-pointed Taklon brush from a local source. The bristles didn't have to be harvested from a 3-year-old male weasel's ass that was born under a full moon in Buttfuckistan to work correctly. The plastic ones are from the same factory as the last brush's bristles were from, and they'll work exactly the same way.
Here's a really bad one. When my brushes start getting fucked up, with hairs sticking out in the wrong direction, I'll just take clippers and trim off the offending hairs and keep using the brush. This keeps the damn things in service a lot longer, but after removing a few hairs they work noticeably worse. Then I'll use them for basecoating for a long time, then I'll use them for stippling and applying effects paint, and only then will I throw away a brush. But then I want a nice brush for detail so I'm always finding myself buying a new brush while there's like twenty beaters sitting on my desk.
>>98813565I do the same thing.I order my brushes from an art supplier in england (I'm in canada), and I make one order every year-ish and order 3 new brushes, a large/medium/small. Then I cycle my older ones out and keep my new ones for finer detail.
>>98806125Doing my sequel to the frog wizard. Behold, frog pirate.
>>98813656That stippled skin texture works really well, frog-anon.
>>98813656fwog
>>98810246I can't imagine putting that much time into something with print layer lines like that.
>>98813733there is barely any time put into that and you just wanted to flaunt your hate for 3d printing
>>98807877Two guys that can barely paint and were paid to promote love them!
>>98797009Skellington done.
>>98813760I like his little trumpethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8XfV8aPAyQ
>>98806125>keep getting micrographics ads on everything>finally go to site>realize it would make really cool transfer sheets for terminal screens and shit>that'll be $99Anyone got a dl link for his stuff?
>>98813832God I can't even escape this shit here. aaaaaa
>>98813656I love him! Good job on the froggyskin
>>98813760Bad ass
>>98813656
>>98813739Why would I care which way a model is made?That there just happens to look like dogshit.
I'm glad I at least got to participate in the SS for a couple of years before 4chan died and took /wip/ with it.
>>98813832It's not particularly difficult to make your own vector graphics. Just get a pirated version of illustrator and you're off to the races.
>>98813974I still have hope for Secret Santa to happen.
>>98814107Hope it does too, it's going to be my first time joining in. I'm not a newfag but I highly encourage the newfags in the thread to join in too.
>>98813760Most of the work on the dread done. Gonna sculpt some flames next.
>>98814110How does it actually work though? Do you just enter your email and other details in some excel sheet and get a random anon to send him a painted miniature?
it looked like a rickety piece of the shit fresh out of the box and on installation but a small articulated desk-mounted elbow/armrest is serious kit, on a similar level as a big magnifying glass to paint through in seriousness imopresuming your space is a little constrained to sit your elbow somewhere or if it could benefit by it somehow
with the three champions of chaos done, I am done with chaos until I get another box for them; meanwhile, I will catch up on some battletech
>>98814204You provide your contact info to Santa (guy organising entire event), short preferences description and declaration if you prefer to stay within your region (mainly for separating EU and US, due to whole duty shit and such). When he gathers all willing participants, he randomly assign people to each other and observe. Contents, aside from minis/sprues (you can go wild here, average is something around 100€ worth but there are no set rules, you do what you can - some people throw things from their backlog as extra, some goes extremely generous, something you done yourself is a nice bonus) also contain sweets and a letter. In case someone gets grinched (rarely happens) people usually gather to make up for it with some emergency package. Oh and if you have tracking number, you usually notify Santa with it so he knows that things goes smoothly.Goal is to have fun, pretty much.
>>98814348Thx anon, I kinda followed the yearly santa stuff here over the years, but never actually got further involved in this. If it happens this year, I might join the round.
Is GW's Tone Pro Blending medium GW's retarder medium?If so then what is shade medium? Glaze medium? I'm not sure really.What is ArmyPainter's warpaints stabilizer really called?
Coming along nicelyHappy to turn this around from nothing to warband in less than 2 weeks
This is Igor. He serves a dodgy guy with a strange accent and a cape.
>>98812302Nice. The old metal kasrkin are still boss, I'm surprised you got such good looking sculpts though mine were always messy as hell
>>98813217in this general, not just this thread, you're complaining about us rakeboys being in the general.
>>98815181EE-gor or EYE-gor?
>>98814858Just going by the names shade medium should be for making stuff similar to GW's shade line, ie washes, and glaze medium should be suitable for making glazes. Blending medium does sound like it'll contain a decent bit of retarder, may nor may not also contain some of the solvent and binder as in the paints (aka general paint medium).>What is ArmyPainter's warpaints stabilizer really called?It's probably mostly solvents, maybe with a touch of binder in it, specifically chosen for their ability to keep the pigment from crashing out even at very high dilution ratios. I don't think there's any specific and widely used name for that, when I want to dilute stuff to hell and back for airbrushing translucent effects I just grab the "perkiest" thinner I have on hand that works with that specific paint.
>>98815257What? What kind of degenerate pronounces Igor eye-gor?
>>98812302Very very nice mate. The metal models are so much cooler. I have a squad of ten myself in a very similar scheme actually! >>98815216Pure kino
>>98815287
>>98815051visually it works, im thinking there must be a way to make the print lines read as scan-lines to give it a retro videogame finish.I still think generated image-model-fdm is a terrible choice.
>>98815181Genuinely incredible paint job anon, I'm very impressed
I think I am ready to get off the citadel paint plantation especially as I want to start freehanding. What do y'all recommend? Vallejo? Army painter?Also any advice on freehanding would be greatly appreciated. I know it takes lots of practice. I want to paint some mountains on an imperial knight kind of like pic related but I have never attempted anything this ambitious.
>>98815181Good eyes for once. People keep painting irises as if they're needle pricks.
>>98815555AK 3rd gen for regular acrylics. Better than GW in every aspect, very consistent, and they are like 50% cheaper. Vallejo for metallics. PA for whites and offwhites, though AK's are fine. I would generally stay away from AP, unless you really want their acrylic washes. These are pretty good.
All that is left is the base
>>98815557>>98815395Cheers. I'm happy how he came out. I think the fact his head was tilted helped me with the light.Here are two more I just finished. The left one is Igor and the right one is Igor. (They're related)
>>98815697those are greatwich models?
>>98815715Vae victis gravediggers. I'm going to use them for a Vampire mordheim warband
>>98815741>sensible, multicomponent 3dprints
>>98815787Always has been. 3D prints reign supreme since at least 2020.
>>98815822>3D prints reign supreme since at least 2020NTA but not really. For a long time most STLs always had that annoying issue of being too detailed even for 28mm and smaller scale form because I think most sculptors were using the medium as a portfolio of how good they can make models detailed.I think the problem is lessened now as most figured out "less is more" when it comes to miniature design. I'd love to know of some particular oldhammer STL styled creators. Apparently older miniatures kickstarter was all AI and I let myself get duped. I'm in grief. My day is ruined. I am saddened greatly. I hope it wasn't AI but murphy's law has been a thing proven right many times.
>>98815787I hope you don't print the individual bits though, the vae victis files are really nice for digital assembly then whole-piece printing.
>>98815822not really, 90% of 3dmodels are dogshit for physical models at this scale because they are designed as you would for videogames, and it's rare to find multicomponent onesalso layer lines 6 years ago weren't like they are now, and i can still see some on the foot of that old man
>>98815842i'm not the anon who printed those, but i find easier and more compelling to fiddle irl with parts than in cad, it also gives more options for kitbashing with actual boxed kits and gives you better freedon to minimize print issues
>>98815830>>98815860That is factually incorrect. That sentence makes zero sense because there isn't one category of STLs. There are as many different styles as there are creators. One of the most well known creator who basically copy the style of very old GW miniatures without much details and static poses (Monstrous Encounters) exists since 2018.If you think STLs are one way or another it simply means you're aware of only a fraction of what exists.Whatever style of minis you personally think look good, I guarantee you there are dozens of creators who have already made hundreds of them, exactly how you want. I know that because I have 2TB of STLs on my hard drive with every possible style.And by the way, I guarantee you they all look good when painted well. (I printed and painted over 450 of them)
>>98815874use something other than cad, i prefer meshmixer, but if you're doing actual sculpting rather than cutting and building from presculpted bits/minis then you'll want blender.using the hobby knife and hobby files can work, but you get a loss less precision out of them, whereas I just wanted a backpack type thing on a model I had already printed, so I loaded that bit in meshmixer, scaled and lined it up to the mini its going on and then boolean separated the exact contours of the minis back from the bit, so it will be an exact fit.
Got the arm shims on now to get the angle just right.
>>98815901>proper pack>no knee trimFuck yeah, if only they had made the truescale marine sculpts just like this to begin with.
>>98815889>One of the most well known creator who basically copy the style of very old GW miniatures without much details and static poses (Monstrous Encounters) exists since 2018.You can go even closer. Victoria Miniatures is a good example, since Victoria Lamb did a metric fuckton of old GW designs. So, a literal ex-GW designer, now making (excellent) STLs. Agreed otherwise, especially when it comes to Guard, the "amateur" designs mogg the FUCK out of anything GW produces. Good example might be Tinylegend. Both his Steel Guard and Kriegers are so much better it's not even funny.
>>98815915>steel legion*
>>98815900meshmixer is cad, blender is cad, fusion is cad..., i'm talking about digital vs touching the parts, it's not the same experience>>98815889my bad, you are right, if we talk in hyperboles everything is factually incorrect, like your very postmaybe it's not most of them anymore, but it's a lot, it's like videogames, when anyone can make one with barely any investment there will be lots of shit
>>98815915>Victoria Lamb did a metric fuckton of old GW designsI've never heard about that, what did she do for GW? I can't say I've ever seen anything that looks like her style sold by GW before
>>98815983fingers for manipulating 28mm scale is like trying to get dressed using fenceposts to handle your clothes.It was either that or fiddle with tweezers for a long time, but digital tools give perfect precision.
>>98815983I'm sorry to say you simply have no idea what you're talking about.
I might sound prickly but I have a feeling that Chinese loves to add parts for the sake of adding more parts. Like this leg section on the upper right - it could be easily done as single part on sprue, yet it consist of 5 separate elements that have to be cut, cleaned and glued.
>>98815901nice work so far.
>>98816031>for the sake of adding more partssounds more like a japanese thing. but jokes aside, i feel you. I got a custodian dreadnought recently and was devastated when i learnt the new plastic kit consists of 160 pieces instead of 30 like the old resin one.
>>98816005you don't need tweezers to see if an arm or a head looks better angled this or that way, blutack is a thing tooi'm not talking about moving an eyebrow, changing a face expression or changing the knot on a rope belt, i'm talking about the usual multipart kits, heads torso, arms, legs weapons..., ofc it's easier to sculpt detail if you have infinite zoom and control-z i'm not arguing thatbtw you don't use fingers to sculpt, you use tools, like you would use a grip stick and not fenceposts>>98816029good thing you are here to share the absolute truth of objective and subjective matters, pls go on
>>98816031gw is known for circlejerking about who could make the smallest piece in a sprue, so it might be an engineer thingit's not always stupid to have several pieces tho, steel molds are quite limited compared to rubber or silicon ones
>>98816062I specifically said NOT sculpting. your bluetack soplution is crap, the final product isn't going to have a mass of putty in the gap and your fallback of "multipart kit" only highlights what I said, you're refusing to even go the distance of hobby knife and files, so you've implicitly conceded the point I've been making, I can change the angle of an arm without cutting and I don't need to worry about the pauldron being in the way.it can just clip through, I can take the backpack off a model without having to absoultely destroy the torso bit it is attached to and waste something thats been paid for, I can put a hat on a head without worrying that my kjnife is going to fuck up the face with one tiny slip, etc... etc....And then when its all done the resulting model isn't a patchwork of superglue, 2 part epoxy, resin, plastic and/or metal bits, it's one solid piece.
>>98816072>>98816061Now that I take a closer look, it actually could work - if the legs could be rotated and glued in desired position. Except they are designed to get into one and only allowed position instead (theoretically they could be adjusted but would requiring cutting off and sanding guiding bits inside joints, which would open up new problems). Or maybe they planned for that before, this is actually crowdfounded project that sat there in "development hell" for whooping 7 years.
>>98816062>good thing you are here to share the absolute truth of objective and subjective matters, pls go onI did, along with another anon. We pointed out old style minis STLs have been made since at least 8 years. Yet you keep yapping like a retarded bitch for some reason.
fuck>>98722410>>98722410>>98722410off
>>98816117you may have missed it, my first post was actually praising those miniatures, but somehow in you mind those existing and being good somehow make it imposible for shit stls to have ever existed
>>98815907Using the old backpack is one of my favorite moves. Its slightly more petite than the mkX ones with creates a bit more negative space in the silhouette, which I like.I like the knee trim on ultramarines cause of the roman vibes it gives, but not on my dudes. >>98816047Thanks anon.
>>98816146What a ridiculous strawman. What a dumb bitch you are.
Broke my godhands cutting a piece of string...
>>98816274post pics
>>98816274They're only for miniature string.
>>98816274why would you use godhands for anything but the last cut of plastic?
>>98816274I heard those are super delicate, to the point where you're only supposed to use them on Bandai runner gates, and they're basically designed as precision instruments that try to make a single flush cut that's perfect but not to be used for anything else. If that's the case, they're really not what you want. GW, WGA, etc tend to have physically thicker runners that are also less precise, and you're likely to have to clean up flash with a hobby knife anyway. How often do you find yourself cutting jewelers chain, balsa wood, even thin pewter details? I find it's better to purchase cheap hobby clippers and use them as a beater, while keeping a knife for precision work.
>>98816318>>98816327>>98816328Let's wait for pictures of the said broken godhand.
>>98816108are the parts not meant to be movable? from the instructions it looks like parts 14 and 15 are supposed to slide along 18 while 11 and 26 rotates at the end and then 23 and 29 rotate around 14 and 15. although it seems to have keys on the rotation hubs and I can't tell what it wants you to cut though. is this supposed to be a knee joint?
>>98816317>>98816318I should have thought of that.>>98816327>>98816328The string is technically plastic if that counts.
>>98816368I am again reccomending the Barbasol side cutters, no hobby tax, nice clean cuts and durable because they are meant for handling literally tough-as-nails old man toenails for years on end.
>>98816368get yourself a pair of lindstrom 8140.
Squad all together now. Im still not sure I like the way the pauldrons sit on the middle guy, but I've been fiddling with them for 2 hours now so I need to let them sit.
>>98816368Fuck these fancy cutters, just get yourself 10 pairs of electronics wire clippers for the same price.
>>98816421God I love beakie helmets.Pauldrons on the middle guy looks fine btw
>>98816368don't twist when using a super thin piece of metal
>>98816555don't twist with any kind of pliers, you fuck up the joint if nothing else, I got a pair of needle nose pistol-grip pliers that were my absolute favourite for wiring because of the orientation and a guy borrows them for ONE MINUTE, ONE TIME and the fucking things now don't line up, pissed me off so fucking much.I did get the price of the tool out of him after that, but still.
>>98816362It appears as if this was the intention at the start but 11 actually does not rotate - it have "key" shape that locks it in position on 18 end, same for 23/29. Probably leftover from designing process, since, from what I found on the net, initially people behind the project wanted it to be more Gunpla-like but scaled down to minis scale and only found out later that this is not feasible (at least with their experience/skill level, Bandai being Bandai probably could pull that trick). And yeah, it was knee joint.In the end, legs are mono-pose but since they are supposed to be connected to torso by magnets, they could be rotated a bit.
>>98815697Alright, the last couple of Igors for the day. I'll probably tackle their master tomorrow.
I've been in the hobby for 7 years, yet I still can't get an entire unit painted. Building models and playing 40k are way more enjoyable than painting. Trying to force myself just turns it into a chore. Maybe I'm not cut out for this hobby.
>>98816555I didn't twist it, it was a 1.8mm piece of synthetic string. I assumed it would just cut it, I've done similar things with it before without issue.Oh well. I'll just get more, I don't really care.
>>98816654You gotta do what you like to do anon.
>>98816401 Right on. I got a pair of clippers like that from an overstock store for pretty cheap. Works pretty well but I'll usually leave a little bit of the sprue and trim with a hobby knife and/or sand down down later.
>>98816576>wanted it to be more Gunpla-like but scaled down to minis scale and only found out later that this is not feasibleI imagine they'd want to use something like Bandai's polycaps, which could drive up costs. They look like nice models and I think the magnetic parts are plenty for a tabletop game
>>98816704Well I'm in a catch 22 where I don't want to pay someone to get my army painted because it won't feel like it's really mine.
>>98816368Damn that's a really zoomed in picture
>>98816783Looks like an actual camera instead of a phone.
>>98816741Just slop on some contrast paints, shit takes minutes.
>>98816576What's the name of the kit? They actually look really cool.
>>98816368I've had goo like with my Beaditive cutters. They're like a budget godhand. I still keep my GW pair for cutting shit like paperclips or cutting up sprue bits
>>98816741I am the same desu. I love making my conversions. Maybe ill paint them eventually.
>>98816859It's the same from >>98812013
>>98816805contrast paints always look like shit and are a bitch to use because I always have to go back and fix mistakes, no thanks
>>98816964>doesn't want to put in lots of effort>but also wants his models to look professionalI can see your problem amigo.
>>98816876>I've had gooIs that a good thing, or a bad thing?
>>98813656I don't care that they're reddit animals I like Frogs and I think frogmen as a fantasy race is deeply underutilised.
>>98817241>I think frogmen as a fantasy race is deeply underutilised.Based and frogpilled
>>98810191>>98815051I don't want to ignite the discussion again, but I'm really curious how how the process actually works, I thought auto-generating 3d models wasn't really possible yet if you had a very specific vision for it. I like that fucked up camel and the screaming monkey guy but Jesus Christ do the printlines not bother you, decent resin printers are like $200. >>98808804>Fire gun>Entire crew instantly melted into goopAcceptable losses.>>98817265Now that I think about it more, I think a lot of the charm frogs have is their weird-ass body shape and anthropomorphising them takes some of that away.
>>98817316>Acceptable losses.Just do that artillery thing where they tie a string to the trigger and fire from, like, 10 meters away.
>>98817109Up to you to decide that
Another entry into the spookfest, I think the blood splatter works well. Not sure if I should add darker stains
>>98817343Ha ha
>>98810329What it is IS how it was made, you retard. Nobody gives two fucks if I print out a picture of the Mona Lisa, but if I suddenly had the actual thing in my living room, I'd have every three letter agency on earth kicking my door in.
>>98816594I like your work very nice
>>98817343>>98817379It was totally an elaborate pun with an invisible mini, and not me messing up
>>98817316They rly don't, especially for tabletop game pieces. Of course blown up on a big monitor you see the imperfections but in person on the table the sculpts and colors outshine their flawsI am absolutely planning on refining and getting a resin printer soon though, want to keep getting better, I'm just figuring it out as I go, it's been less than a month since i started To answer your question, it all depends on how many iterations and how clearly you describe what you want. I think the brazen bull was at least 30 iterations of images, critiquing and fixing errors, changing pose, anatomy, proportions, finding what I wanted it to become, gpt for images, meshy for stl. It's just amazing to me and I'm stoked and excited to keep designing and learning and improving and painting
Thank god for arbitrage, I finally got the other kit I needed for my project. This is the concept for what I'm doing. Thoughts? Tips if you've built either kit? Keeping in mind I likely won't be using it in games.
Got all the Corsairs printed, and just finished desupporting and then basing all the flight stand units, taking a break before I get on to the rest.
Next ork skin. It bit tricky finding the sweet spot for highlights and shading, not quite satisfied as i wanted
>>98817490That looks really good.
>>98816576They probably couldn't hold up their own weight without glue, I imagine it's designed for you to be able to cut the pegs and pose the kit however you wish before gluing it.
>>98817489SweetYou're the eldar-anon that was sculpting a bunch of their own stuff, right?
>>98817607Yes, but with a caveat: I did not sculpt them, I have digitally remixed STL's sculpted by others, it's no different than converting a physical mini with existing bits when you get right down to it, it's just easier and more forgiving.
>>98817464god, it breaks my heart seeing all that effort put into those shit quality FDM printed minis.
>>98817648I've seen worse and at least anon is painting and posting minis, I do agree that the choice of printer is ass though.
>>98817464Nice anon, I have reservations about this technology but I'm happy for you. In >>98810246 I'd say the centipede in and the tall blue skelly guy in look the most obviously AI to me compared to the others (especially the troops at the front they're rad), but I couldn't even begin to tell you why or what specific thing is setting off my alarm bells.Right now I'm bashing my head against the blender wall (only done hard surface modelling before) for printing and I won't lie knowing this stuff is out there and getting better makes it hard to stay motivated despite whatever philosophical views I have about the value of learning artistic skills.
>>98817678>but I couldn't even begin to tell you why or what specific thing is setting off my alarm bellsNo coherency. They all have vaguely similar design elements, but no actual uniformity.
>>98817464Honestly, if there are any units where AI slop is fitting, it is on Jabirian experiments
Are there any bare arms that match up well to Battle Sisters? I'm looking at the Escher gang right now but maybe there's something better to use.
>>988174893 more to go but they've got some fragile parts and I'm done for the night.
>>98817733Fair criticism, but that's a flaw with the creative human part not the process, I meant those specific 2 minis just "feel" more slop-esque than the others.
What's the best way to darken lines on a model without messing up metallic paints? Do I just do a plain basecoat with a similar color, then wash the entire model, then add the metallics? I intend to use a sponge wherever it reaches then touch up with a brush.
>>98814133Flames done.
>>98813832>2026>paying for bitsLmao AI could gen everything in that picture in like 1 second.
>>98818063panel line it like a gundam
>>98818166ntaAI usage has been strongly linked to cognitive decline. I'd rather make stuff myself and keep my brain healthy. >inb4 he wasn't planning on making the decals anywaysYou don't want to get into the habit of AI usage, it's a slippery slope.
>>98817490Honestly this looks very good besides those tan stripes on the shoulder, I would maybe glaze some green on top of that to bring it all together. The face looks great!
>>98815257It's pronounced why-gor
>>98815051>>98815363>>98817316>>98817464There's multiple methods you can use to almost entirely erase any trace of layer lines on FDM minis. This guy just doesn't care enough to do any of them. Depending on the type of filament you can use vapor exposure to erase layer lines, usually via acetone, or you can just do a pre-primer layer of a suitably thinned filler; I use sprue goo for mine.I'm personally aware that on my own printed minis even if I didn't address the lines most people wouldn't notice but I would know they're there and that would shit me to tears; some people simply don't care enough to put in the extra work no matter how much you tell them to do so.
>>98818345Not everyone has autism. At the end of the day they're just worthless plastic toy soldiers. I like his creations and he said he was going to buy a resin printer, which is a way more reasonable option than building some kind of retarded acetone vapor chamber.
>>98818392ntab>appeal to trivialitygo fuck yourself
>>98818097neat!Legion of the damned?
>>98818566You know it brother.
>>98818455>ad hominemYou lost.(what a retarded bitch way to argue)
>>98818603>You lost.I'm not the anon you were arguing you dumb motherfucker but (You) lost the moment you brought off topic garbage here. Feel free to off yourself anytime.
>>98818603oh and you should go back to school and learn what ad hominem means lmao
>>98818392Taking pride in your work is autism now? Zoomer ass take. Also "acetone vapor chamber" when it's literally a metal pot and a metal spacer block. Ten seconds of searching would have told you how trivially easy they are to make. I also notice you didn't say shit about using sprue goo or other layer filling options. But go off, king.
>base coat with X colour >wash in recesses>recesses now look great>but there's an obvious difference in tone in the transition areasHow exactly do I solve this? Because I can reuse X colour to cover up and delete any staining or unwanted splotches of wash on flat areas, but I can't exactly mix it with the wash to create a gradient
>>98818647>The sperg doesn't get itNot surprised.>>98818671That's not work, it's a pass time . There's your autism in not understanding that. You're the equivalent of a waacfag not understand people just want to play a game not seriously for fun instead of being the best possible player there is.I don't know why I'm wasting my time talking to autistic retards. Have fun sperging.
>>98818680>retard that can't comprehend putting effort into something that's not done for monetary gain calling anyone a spergkek, you need to go back
>>98818688Who's talking about monetary gain you sperg? Did you interpret the word "work" as job? When I'm not even the one who used it in the first place? What a retarded sperg lmao
>>98818680>>98818695The things we create will often outlast us. The fact that you don't care about what you leave behind is some real cringe horseshit. Whether it's some dude doing carpentry in his backyard shed making a chair that's still intact 200~ years later or some guy who built a diorama out of hobby supplies, it's all stuff other people can find and appreciate.But continue calling people autistic for having a better work ethic than you, lol, lmao even.
>>98818695Holy shit your a loser, at least post some models if your going to complain about someone else's none issue with their own minis.
>>98818695Trying too hard, lmao. You should try reddit, I'm sure people won't call you out on your dogshit quality prints there
>>98818674Oil washes fixes that problem. They are supreme.
>>98818763Me retarded grug, me still use vallejo washes because me have themMe should start looking around for oils but me still have a lot of old washes and me don't like waste
>>98818725>yourI'm not the one complaining about other people minis you mouth breather, quite the exact opposite, I'm making fun of the retard who did. Don't barge in if you can't even follow a basic conversation.>>98818712It's crazy that you've deceived yourself into believing you're actually building/achieving something that will last. Your plastic toys will end up in a landfill after your death along with someone else's funkopop collection.It's like you've redirected needs to actually build something real that lasts like a house or a family into bits of plastic. Wake the fuck up my guy.
>>98818674Glaze over the transition areas with your base color. If you don't own a dedicated glaze medium, you can just use water. Get the paint really really thin and then wick off the excess moisture on a towel before you apply it to your model.
>>98818861Keep trying to doom and gloom dudes doing what they love, my guy. Maybe eventually you'll land a punch for the first time in your life.
>>98818869>Telling people to chill when they pile on a rando who just make his own minis and paint them for fun is doom and gloomPeak retardation.
>>98818861>It's like you've redirected needs to actually build something real that lasts like a house or a family into bits of plasticlmao now that's a funny projection if I've ever seen one
>>98818881But you're literally the one comparing "work that last 200 years" to painting mass produced plastic toy soldiers.... You are seriously mentally ill my man.
>>98818865Ah figured that'd be the only way, yeahI thought there was something I was missing, considering washes are so commonly recommended to noobs as a "get gud results quickly" sorta thing. Because even with super duper clean control, making sure the wash only ever pools in the recesses, there's still some trailing and staining around the area if the recess isn't fully perpendicular to the rest of the surface
>>98818874I'm not telling you to chill, I'm calling you a spastic retard and nobody is obligated to wipe your chin while your handler is away. Someone handed you access to the internet in lieu of daycare for speds and it shows.>>98818893One, that dude ain't the one making that comparison. Two, that's my comparison. Three, I didn't compare someone's work lasting 200 years to painting mass produced toy soldiers; I compared it to building a diorama, which can easily last over a hundred years. Four, you're the dumbest cunt in the thread by a country mile. Post some fucking minis or go back to bothering your mother for her credit card so you can jump back on Fortnite.
>>98818893lmao there's multiple people laughing at your retarded ass in case you didn't realise
>>98818904>He's so giga retarded he doesn't even understand >implyingI've been on this website for more than 20 years and that's a first. Truly an achievement. You must have been raised on crayons and lead.
>>98818913Not your carer. Fuck off now, adults are talking.
Copped this set for a discounted 18€!1:35 scale is usually too big for 28/32mm, but this seems to be a relatively compact scout car with a length of 112mm and a width of 55mm, which should fit perfectly. Plus, it already looks science fiction-y, so kitbashing it should be chill.
>>98818918Anon, you literally thought I said you were the one telling me to chill. I can't make you understand how retarded that is. You probably can't even understand the first sentence I wrote. Please stop talking to people.
>>98818927Are you kitbashing it for anything in particular or just general sci-fi stuff? The Bren machine gun mounted on the pintle is a bit too iconic so you'll probably have to swap it out for something else, but def keep them aside for other stuff, they're not exactly common/cheap.
funny how you can have dozens of pictures posted of models with undrilled barrels, unfilled seams, and dry sprayed primer and nobody calls it out, but you post a few fdm prints with layer lines and spergzilla awakens to lecture everyone about taking pride in your work.
>>98818946literally every single one of these things gets called out here most of the time but keep seething, tourist
>>98818946There's nothing to call out either way. Non sperg people just have fun with their minis and encourage each others. Spergs with nothing else going on just go on sperging. Best ignore them.
>>98818957>literally every single one of these things gets called out hereyeah by me. probably 95% of the time no one else says anything.
>>98818946Maybe it has something to do with how obviously FDM minis look like shit.
>>98818975>I criticise other people's work but sperg out when other people criticise my workWowzers!
>>98818978Yours probably also look like shit tbf but his have the merit of being unique instead of yet another soulless space marine. I, for one, am curious to see the results of his STLs on a resin printer.Designing your own minis and printing them is peak hobby and the future of the hobby itself.Thinking you're honing a craft and producing pieces of work that will last centuries when I know for a fact 99% of you can't actually paint for shit and wouldn't even be accepted at an art school is peak retardation.
>>98818991You're embarassing yourself at this point buddy, just stop.>putting a prompt into llm>designing your own minisliteral brain damage
>>98818991NTA but wild to call them "unique" and comparing them to "soulless" corpo dogshit when they're AI slop generated.
>>98819014>Design /dĭ-zīn′/>intransitive verb>To conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.> "design a good excuse for not attending the conference." Thinking about a concept and refining it to the extent that you can materialize that vision using tools fits the definition perfectly.Why do you make me teach you the meaning of such a basic word?
>>98818680what's the difference between work and pastime (or whatever you thought a "pass time" was) in your opinion? Why do you think it's not worthwhile to apply yourself in one of the two? What's wrong with giving a shit?
>>98817678If you don't enjoy learning the skill required for your hobby, then the hobby is not for you. It's not a rocket science. There's this weird slopper urge to dabble in creative ventures, even though they are anything but. There's no shame in not being cut out for certain activities, but these people act as if AI was some great equalizer that will magically turn them creative. Ironically, all it does is the opposite, taking away the little creativity they had. >>98818991>my slop is unique>Designing your own minis and printing them is peak hobby and the future of the hobby itself.Case in point, lmao. Delusional retard. >>98818392>>98818680>stop caring about the hobby in a hobby threadYou need to go back.
>>98819061Sounds to me like you're sperging with envy because you're stuck painting overpriced space marines.
>>98819080ntab nobody is envious of your poorly printed ai slop, you delusional cretin
>>98819046You're the whole damn circus.>Criticises others for allegedly not understanding a basic word.>Doesn't know the word pastime and makes up a new one like a retard.And on the first point, it says conceive in the mind, but if you design using an LLM without a fixed idea and just a vague description you could argue even that isn't designing because the outcome was never in your mind to begin with.This is fun. Stick around.
>>98818936Nothing in particular, just give it a sort of generic sci-fi look, but not a super advanced, high-tech one. Imagine some backwater planet in the outer rim, where space ships stand besides regular trucks. Imagine a moon buggy sort of vehicle.The Bren, funnily enough, looks somewhat odd and in-place, you don't really see topmounted magazines anymore, but I get what you're saying. I have a bunch of 40K, Necromunda and Stargrave bits lying around, maybe a big-ass orc weapon shall do.Happy to build.
>>98819086I'm not that anon and you're not very convincing considering how much you seethe.>>98819089It's no surprise you're literally making up a headcanon about what ai workflow look like. Also not a surprise you think images are designed with an LLMs.Basically on his way to be the facebook boomer of current gen.
>>98819080>you're stuck painting overpriced space marines.Picrel is what I sculpted a few days ago. It's now fully rigged, too. I work with 3D for a living, and I have a resin printer in the next room. I also find it funny that you went from "I like my minis, they bring me joy" to doubling down with "I'm more creative than you with my slop". You are proving the point impressively well. AI won't fix your lack of creativity, nor it will ever correct your laziness and sloppiness. It will do the opposite, AND make you look an idiot while doing it.
>>98819121>u-u madlol, lmao evenyou didnt "design" shit no matter how much you try to convince yourself otherwise, faggot
>>98819131>the faggot who's mad at ai is a mediocre "artist"kek every timeI'm not the fdm printer guy. I'd never buy an fdm printer, they're retarded. I also don't value creativity at all, I find people who do to be pathetic. I value engineering and giving people tools so they can independently and easily make what they want. Which is the reason why you're able to make generic coom shit in the first place since I doubt you'd be able to make the same thing sculpting stone.
this is craftsperg isn't it
>>98819142Your point is also completely retarded, since these things are different fields. It's like asking a photographer to write you a song and then mald when he can't do it, you dumbass. >I value engineeringYou don't value shit, you are a stupid mongoloid who can't even see engineering for what it truly is - a creative venture.
>>98819158which one
>>98819121Holy shit how do you manage to be so wrong about literally everything? Your strawmen are all utterly pointless too. Nobody said anything about images.I don't have an issue with ai workflows either, I've trained models and run a few of my own as well as public ones locally. But what difference does that make?You're fucking retarded and getting all defensive because people think your FDM prints are shit.At least you finally got your ad hominem in. Good to use it as an example maybe it'll help you understand what it is instead of throwing words around. Words which you do not understand.
>>98819158both sides probably
>>98819142>I'm not the fdm printer guyYes you are. And you are still a creatively bankrupt sloppy faggot.
>>98819173>Nobody said anything about imagesThat's how you create STLs with ai, retard-kun. You generate and edit images using image generating models, which aren't LLMs, then you turn them into 3D models. You're so incredibly clueless about the subject it's genuinely funny.>>98819182It's okay anon, McDonald still need people to put fries in bags.
>>98819192>delusional AIjeet thinking he's better than others because a llm shat out a shitty model he then painted like a ten years oldClassic. Are you here because you are already a lolcow everywhere else?
All of you are monkey brained extra brown double niggers. Post some goddamn minis.
>>98819199Maybe if you cry harder the AI will go away
>>98819192Except that there are tons of different ways to generate STLs using a bunch of different models including prompt to 3D model. It really doesn't matter if you do an intermediate step in a (latent) diffusion model or not you imbecile. But you wouldn't understand that, because you think there's only one way. It shows that you have no creativity retard.
>>98819202Not part of the spergout but here's a super early wip of a tank man I started working on
>>98819218No one would prompt a 3D model to design an STL because you have very little control over the output. LLMs aren't involved either way. At best you'd ask for an image generating prompt from an LLMs.Diffusion models are a subcategory of image generating models.I bet you asked an AI for these info considering how incomplete they are and how you clearly haven't experienced them first hand, which I think is extremely cute, retard-kun.
>>98819246>>98819218>>98819204holy fucking shit shut the fuck up already and go back to your containment thread you double niggers
>>98819259I'm afraid not, the process of creating prints from scratch is perfectly on topic, you're just going to have to dilate until you've calmed down.
>>98819265You are not creating anything, you silly cockgobbler.
>>98819246Bit of a contradiction if the ai is too shit to tell me how ai works then ai is clearly not worth using to make images to turn into 3d models.But nevermind all that. You think diffusion models are a subcategory of image generating models, as if they're some sort of related family of image generation models, which YOU probably got from an ai. It's extremely funny.
>>98819104The Bren is a cool design and yeah top mounted magazines are a pretty uncommon sight but as-is, it's super, super noticeable for what it is. Sort of like how there's a bunch of kitbashed Star Wars movie guns from the original trilogy that people can look at and go "oh that's X with a bunch of greebles glued to it". You could hack apart the Bren gun bit and retain the interesting magazine mount orientation but depending on whether you have friends that do period hobbyist stuff they might really want the intact gun.The rest of the model can be greebled pretty effectively with plasticard to hide what it is, or at least make history nerds take a moment to figure out what it is underneath the extra stuff though.>>98819265>>98819269>>98819274Post fucking WIPs or get the fuck out you colossal retards. There are so many off-topic shitflinging posts I can't even tag them all without it being flagged as a spam post. There's one degenerate in here trying to derail the thread and the lot of you are feeding the troll to the point that it's becoming a feeder fetish thread.I'm making a floating stone island. Next steps are to embed a bunch of jutting crystals out of the underside, grass tuft the dirt on the top, decorate with extra details like roots coming out the bottom and misc extra details. That's a tomorrow job.
>>98819232That's a nice red
>>98819269Ugh, I know but it's just that....I'm still going to create them regardless ok?>>98819274That's not what sub-category means retard-kun. I can't help but notice your repeated attempts at making strawmen so you can try and save face. That's so lame it's genuinely bumming me out.
How hard is this shit supposed to be out of the container? Mine is a few years old and when I tried to use it recently it felt like it was half cured and was a huge pain in the ass to even mix. It's been in a ziplock bag. It was even really hard to even try to fill gaps with it and I ended up not even using what I mixed because it was too hard to shape.
>>98819385You can get tamiya quick putty instead. Each strip is packed separately in airtight plastic, because Japs are not retards.
>>98819337>I will just keep shitting up the thread>why am I so oppressed
>>98819417just stop replying to the fucking shitposter, it really is that easy
>>98819385Unfortunately this kind of material can cure on its own even when kept in sealed container. I had a package of "superfine" Miliput (the white one) that I opened once to help my mother fix chipped bathtub layer (and yes, it worked so far) and after a year one of component was rock hard despite being kept separate and in sealed zipbag. And if both components are kept together like some retarded companies do, they will harden on their own as well. That's why they have usual year or so of usable time.
>>98819385It's supposed to be quite hard and sculpted with tools. It's not the most convenient to fill small gaps. Did you cut the middle part where both the green and yellow touch? because obviously that's going to be cured.>>98819417I don't feel oppressed at all. Wait, is that why you're so mad? kek
>>98819385>>98819393>>98819429Nippon got you covered. 4 individual strips per package, will last you for years.
>>98819385It should be pliable, like blu-tac or any comparable putty-like stuff. In the future don't buy the shit without a gap; the stuff like in your photo has like 5%-10% already fucked and on it's way to curing where the two parts meet. If you do end up getting the two part putty joined like that, immediately take it out of the packaging, flatten it with a rolling pin with some parchment paper over the top and then use a hobby knife to cut it on either side of the join as close as you can to the join and then use that stuff first.You can absolutely get green stuff/kneadatite properly separated though. I once bought like $50 of it online with it advertised as "with gap", delivery came and it was very much without gap so I got a full refund, pain in the ass.
On the topic of putties, what's a good liquid putty for gap filling? I'm imaging something I can apply out of a tube, spread onto a gap, and have it harden to a sandable consistency to fill gaps. I dislike using regular putty (greenstuff/milliput) for gap filling.
>>98819385Leave it to Army Painter to sell a fucking epoxy already connected. It's incredible how fucking retarded that shitass company is.
>>98819457It literally doesn't matter. I got a strip from a starting kit they made 8 years ago and it worked fine for at least 4 years. You just have to cut off a tiny middle part that's hard.
>>98819486Or, you could stop working around a shitty product like a tool, and buy something like >>98819442 instead. Naturally, Tamiya's not only better, it's also cheaper.
>>98819486ntab it does matter, why wouldn't they just put 2 seperate strips so you don't have to cut off the cured part for no reason at all? That's terrible fucking design
>>98819457gs has been sold connected for longer that AP has existed, but yeah it's retardedit was never meant to be in storage for long because it was not meant to be used little by little to make little toys
>>98819504There's no work around, you just cut off a small part while you cut off your strip. That's dumb as fuck to pretend there's any kind of effort or inconvenience in doing that.I personally don't buy either but if I wanted to sculpt stuff I would just search for sculpting epoxy, which will most likely be even cheaper than tamiya because there's always a big markup for hobby products since they're made for retards.>>98819507That's just how it's made and packaged. Army Painter is just reselling it. I wager it is more recognizable that way by the average hobbyist.
>>98819546>just cut away chunk of epoxy you bought because the manufacturer/reseller can't be assed to provide sensible packaging>why?>because they are packaged that way, duhThis is a mental cuckoldry on par with defending GW pots.
>>98819561It's not a chunk, it's tiniest of sliver. You're being a drama queen.And I told you I don't buy this shit. I don't buy any hobby product except for the paints, it's all "cuckoldry" shit as you call it. Including Tamiya products.
>>98819577Why are you defending a shit design that's making you do retarded shit, anon? Or is it because someone attacked Your Brand(tm)?
>>98819598holy autism
Greenstuff is made an packaged like this for years. I had a big package from GF9 wich were two seperate rolls, but I did not even get to Finnish that completely. Over time every epoxy dries out, I threw out the last cm orso because the yellow part had become to rubbery. it would probably still have worked but mixing it like that is shitty and it won't be usefull for small detail stuff.
need a matt varnish, but otherwise I think I'll call them done.
>>98819745the yellow part creates a 'cured' crust over time that won't mix, you can still scrape the insides and use it fine, it won't be as soft as fresh but it works and leaves no chunks, the blue part also becomes harder and harder but doesn't form unmixable chunks
>>98819577NTA but you admit you don't buy this shit and then claim to have knowledge about it. As someone that's worked with kneadatite/greenstuff etc from many brands, you lose 5% of it out of the gate; the point at which the epoxy is laid against each other part-cures but improperly. If you bother to cut it out and try very, very hard to get use out of it, it's still improperly cured no matter what. Half the time I have to just bin whatever I've tried to sculpt out of it and consign it to 'misc details/junk filler'.Two part epoxies should be separate and kneadatite making it an 'accepted tradition' is fucking cancer. Thank christ I can just chargeback refunds from any company that sells me the conjoined stuff when it's marketed as being separated.
>>98819797I just buy smaller portions these days and they last me forever and are usually gone before it goes bad. I just need to keep attention to if what I have is still good.
A 6" pack of green stuff from greenstuff world or army painter is €10,- unless you are doing major kitbashes and resculpts that is going to last longer than most people are in this hobby and then half of it will still be left.Buying 100's of money's worth of toy soldiers and then complaining there is some waste on a consumable...
>>98819919You are missing the point. It's simply a nonsensical, wasteful way of packaging, and you can get it cheaper, with sensible packaging, elsewhere. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp.
>>98819943you don't understand you can't criticise heckin hobby companies, theyre our friends!
>>98819849>NTA but you admit you don't buy this shit and then claim to have knowledge about it.I wish retarded tourists had the ability to follow a conversation on 4chan. It's really not that hard.
>>98818763Watercolor works too but cleans up with plain water. Daniel Smith makes a transparent black (jane's black) which works great as a base to mix other transparents colors into.
>>98818674>I can't exactly mix it with the wash to create a gradientwhy not?
>>98820031I unno cause the wash is all watery and then base paint is super thick, so I'd end up with a weird mix consistency wise which is not ideal for a 50/50 mixI think
>>98820098NTA, but add paint to the wash, and then add thinner. Mix until required consistency. You can also mix washes.
>>98820111Big boy question, but while we're on the subject how the fuck do you mix paint properly?If I use a brush like 90% of it gets absorbed into it (and then eventually washed away when I clean it up because I'm not putting a big sopping mess of a brush on the mini itself since I'd have no guarantee the paint is mixed there)Do you like put two beads of paint next to each other and kinda push them into each other?
>>98820135I mix my paints with a silicone sculpting tool. Otherwise, just put paint A on the palette/whatever, then put paint B into it, and mix. You can also put paint A and paint B next to each other, and only mix them partially - if you want to do gradients and shit. >I'm not putting a big sopping mess of a brush on the mini itself since I'd have no guarantee the paint is mixed there)Mix the paint, clean your brush, dry the brush with a paper towel or something, then dip it into mixed paint, then paint.
>>98820135use the tip of the handle of your brush dumdum
>>98809793Finished The white looks a lot cleaner to the eye than it comes across in this picture.
>>98819943I get the point but you are making a problem of something that is not. If you use a lot, get something like pic and also other material than greenstuff only so you can mix. But for some anon building an army there is nothing wrong with a basic strip off the stuff. >But I can get three times as much if I get it from Brand whatever for the same price. Still a waste if you only use a portion of it before it goes bad/quit the hobby before it is used up.
>>98820271But why should I buy green stuff when there's Tamiya Quick?
>>98820351For me at least because that was used for miniatures when I started the hobby. Not sure how proliferant it is today but see it as onboarding drug for sculping. The first time doing or buying something is always awkward/to expensive, then we learn.These days I use all kinds, milliput for example is the most nasty material on its own but mixed with some GS it's quite nice.
Female faces are fucking impossible to make look goodIt doesn't help that like everyone but Kingdom Death sculpts them with 'statuesque' cheek and jawbones
The entire Corsair team is now ready to start painting.
>>98820271>if you don't like the putty touching, buy this putty where it's touching
>>98820440Da hell is that material
>>98820181holy shit Picasso over here>>98820158>Mix the paint, clean your brushDoing that wastes a lot of paint however cause your brush ends assorbing up a whole lot of shit from both puddlesBut the other anon's suggestion makes the most sense
>>98820265>FinishedMaybe it's just the photo, but the base looks like you only put one coat of paint on the rocks and called it done. What about washing them with something darker and maybe edge highlighting (or at least drybrushing for a quick-and-dirty)?I joined Warhammer+ too late to get my hands on this model, but I'm sure I can pick one up on the secondary market to add the the Panzee army that I'll never get around to.Putting this model in the lower right "anchor" position for next thread's collage.
>>98820525>PicassoI'm-a gonna break-a you down, into the leetle cubes!
>>98820525>Doing that wastes a lot of paint however cause your brush ends assorbing up a whole lot of shit from both puddlesStop overthinking it.
>>98820506Diverent use cases, anon. Assuming you are not baiting and really don't get it, sometimes a thing is good enough. Yes there will always be better/cheaper/more on the package products, but if you do some occasional gapfilling en small conversions do you really need to do a study for the best, most optimal and cheap material to use? No, you get a strip of Green Stuff from your flags and it will work and it will last and you never give it a second thought. GS is not even a bad material also, I don't get the hate.
>>98820405Alright, so no rational reason whatsoever. >>98820615>Diverent use cases, anon.You have virtually no idea what the fuck are you talking about.
>>98820527You have a point. I am going to wash and maybe dry brush the base but that cracking texture paint takes about 5 hours to dry and I was excited to finish / photograph him in daylight. Love the old hammer vibes. Nothing will ever beat a green flock gaming table. Although the blood angels seem a bit unfussed about the zenos in their midst >>98820432Love the freckles. Certainly more dwarf vibes than pic related
Never in all my years have i derailed a thread like this...yall r gonna love my next print...Anyway been doing research into resin i think i will get the Elegoo Saturn 4 ultra 16kResin bros, what say you?!
>>98820659Anon, of you use something in bulk you want it cheap and with the least amount of waste so you get the rolls. It's like if you occasionally use Mayo, yes you can buy a 5 liter bucket wholesale for the same price as a bottle at the grocery store but do you Need 5 liter of mayo? >>98820659Maybe, lol. But I still use it, as is or in combination with other materials, like I said it is not bad. Was it used in the first place because GS masters were best for making the rubber spin cast moulds or were did it even originate from?
>>98820720wrong thread, faggot>>98722410>>98722410>>98722410go there and stay gone
>>98820724>Maybe, lol.It's rather obvious at this point. Excellent Dunning–Kruger.>you get the rolls.No, I get Tamiya Quick which is cheaper, works just as well, you can sand it, and it's packaged in a way there's no waste.
>>98820732Me printing and painting minis is very on topicThis was my first ever 3d print like 3 weeks ago and a lil kitbash i did while still shackled to gw
>>98820777Shut the fuck up and go back to your containment.
>>98820509Clear printer resin, so need uv on it to photograph... better than not.
>>98820762>If you use something a lot you need to get something else.Right, makes sense.>Dunning–Kruger.How? I don't even promote GS as the best and only material. Just when you start with something you do some research and then go with what is easily available, wich was GS at that time. Games Workshop Green stuff even, to make you seeth some more.
>>98820525>>98820538Pablo Picasso was never called an "asshole".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI-gt7GrNAANew thread:>>98820836>>98820836>>98820836
>>98819442>>98820351How is the Tamiya quick compared to the properties of greenstuff or millput? I know there's some significant differences between GS and MP, like how GS doesn't sand very well once cured. I have milliput that's newer but I've never used it so I don't know how good it is for sculpting tiny bits and details.
>>98820871It's a bit softer and easier to spread compared to GS, which is more elastic/stretchy. It cures a bit faster, and when fully cured, it's harder than GS. The biggest thing is how well you can sand it. You can sand it to a perfectly smooth finish if you want. It's exactly the opposite of what the mong above claims - Tamiya is much better for gap filling and for smoothing transitions between parts, ie.: basic, quick activities. For more complex sculpting (like making your own minis, or larger, more complex parts), I would say GS edges it a bit, but it's not really a dramatic difference. Japs pretty much use it exclusively even for pretty complex shit. Anyway, you can mix them all together. A lot of people mix miliput + Tamiya Quick with great success.
>>98820927I never said a bad word about your beloved Nipponese epoxy, anon. I said I dislike raw Milliput but like you say, just mix it with your favourite putty to make it less nasty.
>>98820098so you are diluting the paint with the wash, you can dilute it a bit more with water and you have a glaze of the color you need
>>98818927Never heard of Airfix before.How do they measure up when it comes to building and parts quality on a scale between complete dogshit (Revell) and absolute beauties (Tamiya)
>>98824810Revell-level, possibly worse.
