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>DIY Lightbox
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>How to Moldlines
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>Fuckin Magnets how do they work?
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http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/297605-tutorial-magnetisation/
>List of mini manufacturers (currently mostly for 40k proxies and conversions)
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>How to Strip
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>Ventilate, motherfucker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_solvent-induced_encephalopathy
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg273.pdf
previous thread: >>47577736
Bunch of orks to kick this thing off, all still very much WIP. Killa kan and the old edition Nob heads i got as a gift from my roommate.
Also my first ever conversion for the Ghazghkull, imo the stock pose for the autocannon arm was boring as fuck so made it point forward.
Will clean up the tubing on the back and add detail + texture. Im very new to mini painting, and these are some of my first minis ever.
How are your armies coming? Also, Stations
>>47596741
The mouth was damaged by glue when I applied the sleeve for the right arm. the close up and my lacking camera skills don't really help either.
>>47606150
Not bad!
A majority of my infantry are done for the guard but a lot my vehicles remain unfinished as I'm awaiting an airbrush. Had trouble summoning the will to paint due to how ugly the plasmas and meltas I have are due to not properly prepping them before priming (had never working with FW before). Sadly I don't have a worthwhile pic to show that I haven't shown before, so here's a bad quality photo of a 4000 point game I played.
Has anyone else fallen for the sector imperialis base kit meme?
>>47606921
what?
>You will never be an ork with a dick
>You will never have a WAAAGH&fuck lifestyle
Why live?
>>47606930
The detail is utter shit on it, textures that look good in the box are non existent on the model, the rivets are pretty much blobs. It's a lot worse of a standard than what gw's been putting out recently, I'll post some photos in a minute.
>>47606962
Now I'm curious because I was planning on getting a few of them for terrain and debris.
>>47606940
ND get out.
How do resist the urge to kill yourself after you fuck up painting fw models.
>>47607134
You strip them, git gud and then paint them again.
>>47606962
Post pics, also return for a refund...
>>47607134
Strip them, doing it again.
>>47606962
Hopefully just a bad batch.
Be interesting to see pics. I have a box of 32 and 25/40 on the way
Question / suggestions for the cloak of my Overlord.
The Green orbs in the center of the cloak, Should I paint them as like, glowing orbs (like a resurrection orb - glowing from the center out) to the outside) or painted like traditional GW gems?
I got my Krieg commissar for my steel legion army, any suggestion for a conversion? i was thinking doing a skull for the gasmask, but im not good at sculpting.
Infinity antennas for Ariadna
>>47607159
>>47607271
This is one of the main offenders, spiked bits does a review of them as well and you can get a better idea of the issues, some bits are alright like the barrel, but it's details like the skulls and Aquilas that barely stand out,
>>47607636
>>47607621
Jesus Christ have you sprayed those already?
>>47607648
Nope, fresh off the sprue
Also this would explain the armoured containers appearing on eBay a couple weeks back
I need to paint a ton of skeletons fast and preferably cheap, has anyone used krylon camo khaki and a wash to do skellies and if so has some pics? or knows of a better way to do it? thanks
>>47607563
where'd u get the barrels?
>>47607621
>>47607636
>>47607660
holy shit
>>47607719
Tamiya German fuel barrels
>>47607563
inner core planets are reduced to mounting antennas on oil drums?
I guess cloning Joan after she dies in every battle is expensive
>>47607783
hahahaha, well.... just wip and not a core planet, it is made for Ariadna/Dawn
>>47607816
Goddamn, I read as PanO even though it says Ariadna, shit...
>>47607783
>>47607816
Add some computer bits and an exhaust pipe and you have a makeshift gas powered comms relay.
>>47607893
nice idea, thank you
>>47607682
jesus, that would explain the quality too
I don't know why they keep trying to dip into foreign manufacturing. It never pans out.
>>47607683
If you spray, wash and drybrush they will look fine.
so this is my farseer as of, with terrible white balance for reasons I don't know.
There are some details to do, gems and such, and maybe a final edge highlight on the green. But I'm looking at a couple areas that are just the primer black.
The face is one, and I don't dislike it as black, but should I do something with the black, and if so what?
>>47608303
the bigger question is the bit at the back of the mantle. I'm pretty sure I don't want this to be black, but I don't know what I want it to be.
Also, slightly older pic. Missing a layer of highlights.
>>47608303
You could always just brush abaddon black on and do an edge highlight by mixing in some grey.
>>47608318
Trim in gold?
>>47608303
>with terrible white balance for reasons I don't know.
Open it in Photoshop.
Click "Auto Color" in the Image menu.
Save, done
Newbie here. How would I go about painting pic related, assuming I have all the colours? I'm starting from a black base and I know how to deal with the white underbelly, but I'm unsure about the orange scales on the back. Should I drybrush to hell on the black base until I reach full orange?
I've already tried a few things and everytime I went back to stripping the poor beast.
>>47608379
that could work thanks
>>47608432
and thanks.
>>47608450
I would just choose where to change colour, base there with that dark red and then base orange where I want it brighter, you might look into blending, but it looks feasible with just layering
Miniature 26 - High Marshall Helbrecht
Failcast is pain in the ass to paint + my white scar got thick and looks like shit.
Also I didn't bother with ligthbox this time.
>>47608581
Damon that white is hellish .why? How did you do the white? Did you go from black primer straight to white? That might be the problem. On a related note, no highlights or don't I see them? Why?
People were asking me where I got my signs earlier.
While I don't recall, I can upload the files here.
So, here goes!
(by the looks of the filenames, I probably got them here)
>>47608633
Is there a way to remove modelling glue without damaging the resin nor the paint? got a couple minis that don't stand up straight and I want to fix that
>>47608642
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>>47608660
>>47608646
Do you know the freezer trick? You are going to need to be very delicate or you might bend the resin. (The trick would be freezing the model and carefully snapping the glue)
>>47608620
>White
Black basecote, celestra grey, nuln oil + white scar (which has gone bad and ruined all work on the whites)
>highlight
they're all there, might be the pic
Metallics in runefang steel, red is up to fire dragon something orange, black is in eshin grey and so on
>>47608672
>>47608673
that's easy enough
and I honestly wouldn't be losing much if these broke anyways.
>>47608681
"Basecoat" ofc - I'm fucking illiterate
>>47608687
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>>47608717
>>47608726
And that is all I have other than this really big one ;)
>>47608681
It's a bit me and a bit the photo being overly red balanced. Are you going to strip the model are you ok with that white?
>>47608695
Please take care. I don't want that model to doe because of me.
>>47608808
Any way to fix this without stripping?
>>47608581
>>47608872
wut?
>>47608726
>>47608717
>>47608700
>>47608687
>>47608672
>>47608660
>>47608647
>>47608642
>>47608633
Thank you very much for sharing these, greatly appreciated.
>>47608851
I don't think so, it looks thick.
>>47607682
>China
That explains everything
>>47607682
lol, stealing stock and selling it weeks before the release date - fucking horrible casting
>China
makes perfect sense
>>47608872
That head makes it look like an armor-clad baby
I'm gonna dump those Ogre and Space Wolf pics I talked about in the last thread. Feel free to destroy my self esteem, or give me kudos if you think they look good. I know OP has a great pic on how to take pictures, but I still suck.
I'll start with the ogres. This is my maneater.
Sorry guys, I said I hadn't touched these guys in years. Even in the case they ended up with a little dust on em.
Now for my butcher. Its a small conversion. When the ogres came out there weren't even models for the whole line and the metalcast minis were way to expensive. So a bull had to take up the chopping duties. The apron is greenstuff and young me wasn't smart enough to smooth out the finger prints, so I put blood over it to simulate gore and gitz.
>>47609529
If you're doing a massive dump, please at the very least make collages so it's one image per model.
People say ogre skin is hard to make look good, the real hard part is making each ogre have relatively similar skin tones, I can't even remember the formula I used.
How do I paint something black?
How do I highlight black if I've already made the mistake of painting it?
His cleaver is still MIA as, once again, young me didn't know how to do things right and didn't pin it.
>>47609582
My bad I'm not very proficient in even taking pics right. I'll try to collage the space wolves.
So I took a break from painting guard today and went and did one of the many mehreens I have laying around.
Things I can see in the picture I need to fix: Mould line on shoulder pad, some blue on the rim of the shoulderpad, some white on the boot.
Any other advice in general? I'd ideally be looking for more advice on my technique, as I'm not planning on doing many more smurfs (first time painting a marine in about a year, first time painting a smurf in around five years)
>>47609778
>1836x3264
>potato
>out of focus
>>47609597
Grey,i think eshin grey should work,or just mix your own with white and black
>>47609820
You're right. Sadly, my dad has the nice camera, so potato is all I have, and I've got an issue that makes me too shaky for much better quality, but I cropped it down
All the wolves who aren't just primed. The guys without arm armor are my scouts. Wolf scouts are supposed to be grizzled veterans so I didn't want to have them in just derpy sweatpants.
>>47609778
Is that"fuck thw world imma drown him in wash" effect wanted? It doesn't look bad,but it dies look like a mistake. If you want to avoid it,try wiping the brush more before applying the wash so tgat it comes a bit more even.
>>47609869
Not bad,but the highlights aren't strong enough for my tastes.
>>47609875
Not intended, no. I'm coming back to the hobby after an extended break, and seeing as I was 13 when I stopped properly (the space marine I painted a year ago was a half-hearted attempt at getting back into it), I was more just kind of a "Fuck it, just put paint on it" kinda autist teen, so stuff like washes I'm still getting the hang of. Thanks for the advice, I'll try that next time
>>47609597
If you're good an know the temperature of your black, try to use a matching temperature of gray or you can use a low chroma color with the a matching temperature to give it a little more life.
>>47609863
How do you fuck up trims? I'm geniuenly interested.
Anyways, black out lenses before painting them red and leave some of the black on the edges. It's a smal detail but it makes a huge diffrence.
>>47609597
There are different approaches you can take, depending on what you are after.
>industial and worn stuff
Paint brown into crevices and use a metal color along raised edges and around joint to signify chipped paint and act as highlights
>cold schemes
sharp highlights using blue up to white. It's important to keep the lines consistent and tight. You can always clean up later with the base black.
>soft black, large areas
Don't use black, use a dark grey instead and wash it down with blacks, browns or blues, depending on what color temperature you are going for.
Similarly you can instead tint your colors with blue, green or brown if you want to avoid the - usually - pretty boring looking greys
>making a distinction between metal and cloth areas
Usually helps if you highlight with different colors. I find that when painting cloth, highlighting with a bit of skin color works well.
>laquered armor, chitin, plastics, visors
Just black and gloss varnish. Works well if you paint a gradient underneath the varnish too, but using gloss basically means you can do the actual light do the highlighting for you.
You could also make a distinction between edge highlights, soft highlights, i.e. gradients over the entire surface your are painting as opposed to the raised edges as you would when edge highlighting, and painterly highlights like you'd see in old school comic books and the like.
Black can be tricky, but there are loads of different ways to approach this.
>>47609894
agree with this anon.
An extra edge highlight on the blue, but more importantly a highlight on the reds.
The flesh looks good though as do the details.
>>47609908
I think that might have been finishing up that rim in a hurry and then forgetting about it like a retard when I came back to the model. Plus, like I said, kinda shaky so I typically need to go back over stuff or it looks like someone stuck a paintbrush to a vibrator
But cheers for the advice on eyes, i thought they looked a bit off
>>47609910
motherfucker knows his color tempetures.
I'm a bit annoyed that there doesn't seem to be an actual warm and cool black, I know you can mix to get that, but I'm spoiled from oil painting out of a huge collection.
Abbadon is neutral but ever so slightly to the cool right? it looks that way to me, but I'm not a superchromatic.
>>47608581
White scar is such a pain in the ass
>>47609863
holy fuck it is worse than mine.
>unthined paints
>mould lines
>no transfers
>ultrasmurfs
that is an achvmnt.
>>47608700
>imperialis
>not imperium
What color scheme do you guys like best?
Will post more angles. Please excuse the poor picture/paint quality as these are my first 3 models and just trying to decide on a scheme for the army and practice my skills.
>>47610218
I didnt make them. Fix it and reup it
>>47610251
left one, but jesus fuck thin your paints and stop using enamels/lacquers/whatever ur using
>>47610263
agree about it looking way to shinny. Looks okay on some bits, but you over did it.
Left is a touch boring for my taste, but the bone is overused on the right one. I'd say use a couple elements of the bone on the left color scheme, and an extra bright purple edge highight.
>>47610251
another view.
>>47610263
I'm just using citadel paints straight from the pot, occasionally mixing a bit. Don't really know dick about painting or thining paint other than using water and that just made it too difficult to work with for me.
Made my own base for minis, so I could use orientation house rules. Just came off the printer. What do you guys think? Too tall?
>>47610351
Nice! 1:300 stairs...
>>47610331
>>47607621
>>47607636
>>47607660
USE LESS PRIMER SPRAY YOU HAM HANDED FU-
>>47607668
>Nope, fresh off the sprue
Yikes, I'd send em back.
>>47610331
>>47610364
water will work, but get some medium. Trust me it will help a lot.
>>47610363
Yeah, but it printed in 6 minutes and I'm going to paint over it
>>47610364
last one.
I think the middle one turned out the best but i kind of like the scheme of all of them. Also considering doing a black, blue, purple, and white color scheme but i only have the starter kit for now so i'm kind of out of tester units until i pick up more or paint over one of these.
>>47607938
>I don't know why they keep trying to dip into foreign manufacturing. It never pans out.
Prices are so high that they can only increase profit margins by lowering cost
>>47609597
Not like wip ever his image limit anyway. Collages are a good idea but I think we'll be okay.
>>47610391
I'll look into it. Got any recommended brands or anything to point me in the right direction?
Are cans of Chaos Black supposed to drain like SUPER fuckin quickly?
>>47610351
>>47610363
I know from personal experience that you can sand down those ridges, but it will take forever and the dust will make you start to brown out
>>47610474
army painter, valejo and citadel are all basically the same.
I'd recommend army painter or valejo as the dropper bottle is useful, and the usual downside with paint doesn't apply to medium.
>>47610474
Just go to your local art supply store and ask for acrylic matt medium.
>>47610509
alright thanks.
>>47610491
If I need to smooth it, I'd probably be better off getting a whole bunch of them and using an acetone bath
But do I need to smooth it?
>>47610569
acetone vapor bath*
Posting this from phone, sorry if the quality is bad. This is the first model I painted ever for 40k. It's a cultist, going for a tzeentch warband that splintered from the Thousand Sons. I have 3 models done, will be posting the rest now.
Please do give me tips, pointers, etc! Note I'm not using citadel paint but Vallejo brand acrylic paint.
Cont.
>>47610625
thin your paints. use washes conservitavly.
Cont
Cont,
>>47610703
>>47610657
>>47610641
Make a fucking collage god damn it.
Cont,,
Hey /tg/ i am finally getting around to working on my space marines but i decided that the stock models just look to unproportionally silly to even consider them. SO i am in the process of building my own truescale marien conversion parts.
Pic related is my first WIP attempt at a basic armor i can later make cats of and adapt to represent all 7 versions of power armor.
I still gotta get soem smoothing out done and work a bit on the proportioning fo shoulders and arms and i also need to build a backpack but i think for a first try it actually went better than expected.
So after talking with my professional painting teacher (canvas not mini), about his stupid amount of knowledge about how paint is made, I thought I'd right up a little primer on What's In Your Paint.
Almost all paints are emulsions, that is a mixture that contains a liquid and solids or other liquids that are not desolved in that liquid but suspended within it.
There are basically three parts to the paint emulsion: Pigment, Medium and emulsifier.
Pigment is the part that actually has the color, typically these are very finally ground particles.
Medium is the liquid that pigment is suspended within.
And the emulsipher surrounds and binds the pigments within the medium so that it can be evenly spread, have a thicker texture, and will hold it to the surface it is painted on.
The difference between acyrlic, oil, other base types of paint is the chemicals in the medium and emulsifier. They won't mix, can react to each other poorly, and change the way it holds to a surface.
Model paint is a form of acrylic paint, and can be mixed with many other forms of acrylic paint. The difference, is the ratio of medium to emulsifier. Model paint has high medium to emulsifier ratio, in addition to a pigment content similar to the higher ends of acrylic paint.
If you mix in non-modeling acrylic paints, you'll get too much emulsifier which you will need to thin with lots of medium, which will me the resulting mixture will have a very low pigment ratio, especially if you use lower end acrylic paint. So it will work, but will take lots and lots of coats to get good coverage.
>>47611050
>right up
anon....
>>47611050
different types of model paints might feel different because of slight differences in part ratio, or in the type of chemical used in the medium and/or emulsifier. They should still mix without problem, because they will share the same qualities in terms of solubility and binding.
Washes, shades, and glazes are a lightly different matter, as they are more properly inks. The pigment in them is a liquid, or at least dissolved within a liquid. They are solutions, not emulsions. They won't separate, and if mixed with the paints the color will desolve into the medium rather than being suspended in the pigment/emulsifier part. This means that the shade color can separate out when applied to the model.
This can be an intended effect if using Wash Painting.
Primer is paint with a chemical in the medium/emulsifier that binds to different materials, namely it holds to metals and plastics well, where most paint likes to bind to other paint. Primer can be mixed with other paints, see the beginning paragraph, but it won't flow or dry like normal paint, so get a primer in the color you want, don't try to paint with it.
>>47610882
you made a manlet. look at the size of an unhealmeted sargent's head on a body.
>>47611309
Hey Bro, do you mind getting a trip code? Like your posts so much I want to be able to follow them
>>47611527
I don't need a sarcasm font to know when to stop. bye until the next time.
I'm converting IG for a slaanesh renegade army. Anyone got any suggestions for how to make the figures look more slaaneshi?
>>47611772
paint the armour black and pink. add bone spikes. make some female/futa. accentuate the features of whatever gender you make them.
>>47611871
>paint the armour black and pink. add bone spikes. make some female/futa. accentuate the features of whatever gender you make them.
no more namefaging.
why is it so hard to get paint that's not too thick or too thin
I'm beginning to feel retarded
>>47611871
Please get a tripcode
Just finished painting a mini for a player in my D&D group.
This figure was a Reaper Bones mini, and honestly I really never want to paint another Bones figure again. Shitty detail on the figure and horrid mold lines everywhere.
Did the best I could to get it looking how the player wanted. I think it actually turned out pretty decently.
>>47612024
not him, but why should he? he is a boring cunt.
>>47612283so you can filter him without hiding random 40k posts
Could someone explain the hairspray thing to me?
You spray over the basepaint or whatever color you want to shine through, spray it, paint over it and then remove paint with a wet sponge to get a chipped like effect, right?
>>47612420
bingo.
>>47612434
thanks
>>47612366
really? his posts aren't the worst.
>>47612553
Not the same guy.
His spelling and grammar are atrocious and his models look awful. He's either underage or deliberately trolling.
>>47612607
since when did grammar and spelling matter on 4chan? we spell wrong for funzies.
>>47607398
Glowing orbs.
>>47611772
Ritual scarification
Thinking about building 2x 10 cultists with autoguns and heavy stubber from guard bits.
Here's a quick blu-tack mock up. Does this pose look completely retarded? If I go for it I'll remove the vehicle mount part, figure something out for ammo belts and slap on some chaos bits like the pocked+grenade loin cloth from the CSM kits.
>>47612848
it looks great. do it.
>>47612848
And sorry about the hueg pic.
I used photos so rarely that I always forget how fucking massive they get.
>>47612651
Yes, but these are either intentional misspellings or he's trolling, as well as being extremely annoying either way.
Can't remember how long this guy has been gathering dust in my shelf but I finally got around to painting him. Now I need to get him 50 Genestealer Hybrids to preach and he'll be a proper "Dark Apostle"
>>47613033
when was he annoying? he has only relay helped people this thread.
>>47613420
Isn't he the guy with the marines that he ruins by massively overwashing them?
>>47613484
yes
>>47613313
>tfw you wanna do nurgle and mad science daemon engines but people keep painting awesome khornate dudes
>>47607682
>>47607660
>>47607636
>>47607621
That's the exact same quality as the recast ones I bought from China man, they came on sprue as well. From my experience every Warhammer item I have bought from China and Russia have been recast. Half of them came with instructions and official box but were definitely recasts.
Do these boyz look snakebite/feral to you?
Just starting a snakebite army
>>47613837
Not really, just regular Ork Boyz, solo head looks more Goff than anything
>>47613905
Damn, I'm using pic related as a reference and I'm still waiting for fantasy bits to come in. I guess I'll have to rely on panting them appropriately then?
>>47613837
Um...anon. Those are regular-ass boyz.
Get some WHFB savage orc bits for the Snakebite feel. Failing that, a leathery paintjob with tribal markings could do the trick. What you have is just generic boyz though
>>47607134
Never give up Johnny, don't ever give up. When life fucks you, put your head down and keep going. It's the only way to say 'fuck you' back.
>>47612866
Got some mold lines to clean up and such, as well as the head and all that.
The first half of my first cultist.
>>47613968
God damn I love Blood Axes.
If I ever pick up orks, it'll be blood axes.
Newfag trying to get into the hobby here. Where do you recommend getting supplies online? (Brushes, paints, tools, etc.)
Amazon first came to mind but I had hoped there might be a specialty hobby store that was better.
>>47614429
I like it, great use of the special weapons arms there, mate.
I made one of these guys using the Forgeworld Renegade Torsos, SM scout legs and catachan arms. It looks wonky as fuck but not bad. Yours is definitely better.
I'm in need of some assistance guys, or more some ideas, I'm in the process of converting some beastmen to resemble inhabitants of the west country ala the wuzels, though I'm not sure how I'm going to achieve the desired look, has any one else attempted any thing like this?
>>47614589
?
The only thing I don't like about orks is that it's so damn hard to not make poses that look akward/silly.
I guess it fits thougj
>>47614691
It's because of their hunchback.
>>47614458
Just for you
>tfw looking at these threads just makes you feel shit at modelling and painting
>>47613497
but other then that, he has been quite helpful.
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>>47614817
>tfw getting your stuff relentlessly mocked on /wip/ pushes you to be a better painter,.
>>47614582
I was afraid of cutting up the flamer arm, but it was a LOT easier than I expected it to be.
And I got a cool flamer bit out of it.
>>47614700
Thanks bruv.
>>47614682
English country bumpkins
>>47613313
i love the colour and it's very well done, but i think he needs some green on that eye, it would break the monotony
>>47614877
Actually most inspiring thing I've seen on one of these threads (not that the criticism isn't very helpful)
>>47610569
I haven't yet tried painting that kind of surface, maybe you could spray it separately to fill in the ridges with a thick primer, or you could also use wall filler
Who knows could end up looking cool with the ridges depending on how you paint it
Hanging ammobelt yes or no? Alternately I'll try making a long one that goes to a contain on the back or something, but that seems like a LOT of work and I'm not even sure it'll look good.
How the bullet size? I'm thinking of using the ejecting brass from the loota kit that I have lying around when I eventually make the stubber for the other cultist squad that I plan on being in a firing pose. The ork brass is larger than this ammo belt though. Not sure if varying ammo sizes for the same stubber models are gonna look weird, or if the difference is noticeable at all. Eyeballing the actual cultist heavy stubber model, his ammo belt seems larger too. Silly part is that my belt is what's supposed to feed the IG heavy bolter.
>>47615194
Only way to improve. People in real life don't know enough or won't tell you, non-anonymous forums are hugboxes.
/wip/ will rip you on it and tell you what's wrong, and eventually I might push past mediocrity, where nobody comments on your posts, towards being savage-ork-guy-tier.
>>47615376
That is the dream. But yeah, destructive criticism > 'constructive' criticism (it'd be fine if it was actually constructive, rather than what it is)
>>47615421
Useful /wip/ critique is really just constructive criticism by assholes.
Destructive criticism is telling you to strip and start again without covering why.
My first (Badly) painted simarine, I was just trying to decide on a colour scheme
>>47614817
Fear not anon, some of us other peeps are also paint retards.
>>47615576
Pic is a bit potato-tier to judge properly, but I'd give the sword a red handle and white scabbard.
>>47615671
Yeah, I didn't wanna take a proper picture because it's so awful.
And yeah, that sounds good, I'll swap them around.
>>47615705
Make the effort, get some critique, one day you won't call yourself a paint retard.
I'd like a better pic because I think your metallics look thick in places, and I don't know whether you've used washes everywhere (looking at the detail on the shield).
You should also neaten up on the shield where you've got white onto the trim, and consider further highlights on the halo.
I'm also venturing into sigmarines at the moment, posted my first in the last thread. >>47599257
me again, pls don't bully
>tried really, really hard to apply the advice from my last post on thinning my paint the right point to mixed results
>successfully lightened the face by painting it a lighter color and washing it blue
>unsuccessfully experimented with painting the gun gray
>tried to highlight the armor, all I can say is "there was an attempt"
>cleaned up a lot of green and black mistakes
>worked on the feet somewhat until I got bored and set the model down for the day
Still not sure what to do with the gun (and backpack). Gray seems to kinda work but I can't figure out how to make it look good. Dunno what color to go with if not gray, though, I can't decide if more green would look good. Maybe a slightly different green? I dunno.
Also don't really know what to do with the face. Extremely skeptical of my ability to paint eyes. Maybe I'll try it using a toothpick or something.
>>47615789
You know what? You're right, I'm gonna go put my actual camera on charge and take a decent pic later tonight.
To be honest a lot of the sloppyness on this was me trying multiple different things before picking what I liked, his shield started off red with a silver hammer for instance, that's also why some bits look a little heavy.
My plan was to use this guy as a test bed and then do whatever I ended up with for the rest of my guys tripping and re-doing him eventually when it made sense.
![32afdb2529e8881c74c7c7c9c30ca13b[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2u8A1P1.jpg "32afdb2529e8881c74c7c7c9c30ca13b[1].jpg")
Anyone know what I can get if I want a 28mm mini of Jubilee from the Xmen to use as a star player/vampire player for blood bowl?
>>47615230
I'm going to paint some of them tomorrow, or rather, going to hit them with primer in the morning and see what I can do with them in the afternoon.
I'll post results, I'm new at this, so it'll probably be pretty damn bad, but I'm going to see about making them look like concrete
>>47617165
Got my hands on the new gem paints. Really nice. They're basically a colored 'ardcoat. I was curious and experimented a bit. It IS possible to use other colors besides the new Stormhost Silver to "base" the gems. On the top is a gem based with leadbelcher, on the bottom is one based with the Stormhost Silver. For my Dark Eldar, I'll be going with the Leadbelcher.
>>47617391
Didn't mean to reply to >>47617165
>>47617410
It's not like it got my hopes up or anything anon.
>>47617568
Sorry, anon.
>>47615823
You tried lad/10
I am not really great at giving advice for these but you tried, so well done anon!
>>47605819
Your boyz are looking good so far! Ghazghkull conversion is simple, but makes him look so much better. May i suggest that you should add decals or free handed flames, checkers or other nonsense to spice them up a bit, and with the nobs, see if you can re-base them on 32's because they look stunning on them compared to 25's
>>47615823
>tried really, really hard to apply the advice from my last post on thinning my paint the right point to mixed results
Y'know, I got a few "thin yer paints" comments on one of my more recent projects, and I *know* thinning my paint isn't the problem... but I'm seriously starting to suspect that it's my primer that is too heavy to begin with and thus it wouldn't matter how much I'd thinned my paints - I'd be damned anyway!
What are you using for primer?
>>47606921
>>47606962
>>47607023
>>47607159
>>47607621
>>47607636
>>47607660
>>47607682
Its a bad batch, get a refund, got mine yesterday and the details are perfectly fine
>>47615823
now I haven't held a tau model since at least 4th edition, but you might want to strip the model and do it again, you've improved greatly in between posts but I feel like you need a better base for those improvements to be more visible.
>>47615576
>playing AoS
Making some ladders from plasticard sheets and rods.
>>47618375
It was £54 for the starter box, I have a friend who will play and I might have a dude lined up to buy the chaos if I paint them for more than the box cost.
Turns out my camera is being weird so I just took a better pic on my phone, right shoulder is lazily done because I was focused on deciding a scheme.
The Scabbard is also awful looking because I swapped the colours right round like that other anon suggested.
please no bully.
>>47619261
Paint is awful as you know but the color scheme looks good.
>>47615321
Belt looks a little goofy since it's so straight, do you have a spare ammo box from a chimera or something to slap on it instead?
>>47619261
Colour scheme could definitely work. If you've got some more units, definitely try getting a good and simple base coat down to see how it'd look for the rest of them.
>>47610251
I like the green on the chitin in the middle one.
>>47610882
I made a test casting of some of my marine parts. I have to re-do the legs mold tough. Also got a problem were my resin doesen't always want to cure correctly. Not sure whats causing it since its my first time using resin to cast.
>>47620536
>Also got a problem were my resin doesen't always want to cure correctly. Not sure whats causing it
You sure you mixed it thoroughly?
What's a good way to paint up wood with GW paints? I'm looking for something akin to the paintjob on the old Vostroyan guns.
What are the best metallic paints? I got some of the vallejo game colour metallics and was quite disappointed.
>>47621412
Both of the Vallejo Air ranges are meant to be really good from what I hear. Scale75 are meant to be really good aswell and they come in a few more colours, not just normal metal colours.
>>47621412
GW metals are pretty good.
Almost done with this guy, tried a wash for the first time on his dreads. Detail then cleanup then done.
>>47621769
Aaaand now I see it in a big picture I realise how shit it looks. Jesus fucking christ. fml.
>>47621769
>>47621812
Every great journey starts with one step m8.
Just keep on working!
>>47621769
Look at op's pic befire posting,also maybe highlight the armour?
>>47621769
Shade plus highlighting desu, you really need to differentiate the armour plates.
>>47617895
Pic?
>>47618104
I'm not gonna strip my first mini!
I'll just try to do better on the next one.
>>47617874
I don't think that's the case. My primer went on pretty smooth, I think. When I prime the next one I'll take a picture before I start painting just in case, though.
Unlike you, I am reasonably certain that the thinness of my paint has definitely not been correct. Every video or technique I watch / am told seems to produce a different result and none of them really seem to be correct.
>>47610251
I like the one on the right!
You went overboard with the bone, though, I think you need to use it way more sparingly. Maybe just the claws and gun.
WIP Wyvern I'm working on. Just tried to do the camo pattern, haven't cleaned it up yet but I've always been awful at doing that.
So how do you use mediums? Do you just do the same as you do with water?
>>47609869
Where are the scout backpacks from?
>>47619028
Working too hard m8.
They sell ladders in scale at most model train stores.
Any advice on making some Tau themed terrain?
Someone needs to represent the xenos at the FLGS, 9/10 of terrain is either forests or Imperium.
>>47621769
Its not particularly messy, just unifinished. You've basically just basecoated it. Just washing the green would improve the model no end, then highlighting the raised areas would improve it further.
>>47614429
remember to cut off the aquila on his flak
alternately, defile it (although it never looks as good as you imagine with slashed up aquilas)
>>47621412
Vallejo Liquid Gold range.
>>47622569
Cool, I'm doing some damage control tonight. Do you wash with a darker or lighter colour?
>>47613968
The snakebite look in your reference is 95% paint job, i've just started snakebites too, here's one of my nobz from the last WIP.
Have to say also, savage orks are too feral looking for my tastes.
what colour do you guys think for the sword, silver, or gold like the rest of the metals?
>In the name of Holy Terra, please form an orderly line
>>47610882
The helmet is now way too small. Remember that a helmet is not supposed to the size of a head (which what you've done).
>>47622921
What's the mini?
>>47622416
Look to the Tidewall for the aesthetics.
For residential consider a similar look mixed with brutalist architecture. Smooth surfaces broken up with raised paneling. This can be achieved by making smooth cornered rectangles and squares made of medium thickness plasticard.
>>47622992
http://sciborminiatures.com/en_,shop.php?group=176 one of these.
i'm painting it as a Custodes.
>>47623017
Thanks!
Should I attempt to put some kind of writing on the purity seals?
>>47622722
Darker. It basically gathers in the recesses to give nice easy shadows. It will instantly make your model look a lot better. There's loads more on top of that you could do, but as an easy first step it really makes a big difference.
>>47623274
yes, thin some black or dark brown and do wiggly lines to represent lines of writing.
Clean up your whites and golds and work on your highlights though...
>>47620536
Could be not mixing enough, or wrong proportions. The latter can especially be a problem with small amounts. Say you need to mix the resin 1:1 and your scale shows the weight in grams only. When mixing 100g of resin, 49 or 51 grams is not going to make a difference. When mixing 5 grams? 1g is lot
>>47623374
Cheers anon, i'm pretty bad at highlighting honestly. What should I be doing to highlight the black/bronze. Should do I gold around the edges of the bronze or is that a bad idea.
Anything i should improve besides the base and touchups here and there?
>>47623506
i think it looks too clean, but if it matches your army, then that's good i suppose. nice work on the red highlights, what paints did you use?
>>47623278
Thanks mang, will post a pic when it's done
>>47623575
Thanks. Khorne Red base, drybrush with Mephiston red and edge highlights with Evil sunz scarlet
I also accidentally broke off the antenna
halp me wip, i received my forgeworld leeman russ turret, and with all the stuff i got this piece, what is supposed to be?
>>47622876
Same here, I want them to look subtle and not scream I'M UNCIVILIZED EVEN BY ORK STANDARDS.
I'd do the crazy conversion like you do for characters and any special boys. Greenstuff converting for 100 boys is killer.
>>47623506
Needs some shading in all the recesses.
Apply some sacred oils.
>>47614458
I'm the anon stripping the tubs of orks at the moment.
I'm pretty heavily leaning towards blood axes myself.
I fear that my penchant for 'my dudes' levels of conversion would kill me doing an ork army though.
>>47615321
I don't have a stubber bit lying around. Is their a slot of the left side of the stubber that it feeds from? It wouldn't feed straight from the bottom.
Take that ammo belt and green stuff it to the left side and let it hang straight down. No one will see the greenstuff pressed against his torso.
>>47617391
Supposedly, other metallic colors can be used as well. GW recommended copper for green and gold for red in White Dwarf Weekly.
>>47623669
i think it's for the underside of the turret. to fit it to the body. but i'm not sure, since it doesnt really fit. my first FW russ i just shaved it for ages till it kind of fit, the second one i just didnt use it
>>47623430
>>47620536
Some less likely culprits:
- batch of resin is getting contaminated (either by something while mixing or by something in the mold
- resin is failing to reach cure temperature (generally only happens on really twiggy parts; preheating the mold sometimes cures this)
