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Interior is starting to come together.
Got the skin about done, now Ive got to redo the leather and pants so theyre a bit more noticeable
Basically a lrdg inspired Taurox Prime
>>47920387
>Taurox
You using wheels on that?
>>47920445
That's really nice! Good work.
>>47920445
Also got one of these guys painted up today
Mostly finished Blood Angels tac squad.
Mixed with a vanilla tac squad so they aren't covered head to toe in wings and rope.
I see that the staff isn't attached to the arm in the clamshell terminator librarian.
Is a regular force axe that I have around able to be used on that, or is the hand on the axe too small for the terminator?
Am I going crazy or was there a Knights of Blood marine here a minute ago?
>>47920473
Looks good.
Liking the orruk models
>>47920504
That's the way to do it. Looks nice
>>47920643
Thanks, mate.
Here are my first two Death Company.
The Vanguard Veteran legs are a bit larger than other kits.
>>47920470
Where'd ya get the wheels? I'm thinking of making an MRAP Taurox myself.
>>47920794
It's cause they're tiptoe walking instead of bending their legs.
So, I'm trying to do a model with the bottom like this, smoke and mist.
How would I go about that, I guess? I figured on a wire frame, and then something to model the smoke, but I wasn't sure what.
I don't need it to look exactly like smoke, so if there's a method to do a more solid greenstuff concept for it, that would be great as well.
>>47921474
Went looking, found this as roughly what I'm interested in.
This is what I'd like to go for. It doesn't feel especially hard to model, since it's just a semi formless shape, but I'm curious on if there's any specific tricks or concepts to doing it.
What's the craft store version of this shit? I don't want to import it and I would like to get a larger volume of it for my dollar.
>>47921621
It's called Acrylic Medium or Acrylic Thinner. Buy Liquitex brand if your store has it.
>>47921662
Thanks.
>no posts for hours
WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENIIIIIIING
>>47920504
>Assembling the models completely before painting
You're either courageous or more gifted than I am. Probably the latter. It's a bit disheartening to have all these tiny bits on paperclips waiting to be painted.
But at least the painting is simpler and putting together really feels like the last steps, and it's so damn enjoyable to see it finally come to life.
>>47923106
People are painting anon.
After suggestion by someone in here about a week ago, I finally got a hold of some Oomoo to make molds with. Here are three I have made.
First one was a test with a Micro Art Studio Old Factory 50mm base. Should have done it with the insert off, but that thing was goddamn solid, so fuck it. Also, I didn't pour enough on the side with actual detail, so I think it might fuck up when pouring the resin. We'll see.
>>47923680
This one is what I was planning to do from the start. Since taking this picture, I've cut a line from the tip of the tail to one of the back sections to help trapped air escape.
>>47923680
>>47923694
Last completed one is a sprue of three tombstones from a set made by Reaper. The other 3 weren't part of a sprue, and I wan't to make just 3 more for a friend's Carrion Thralls he bought at Lock N' Load.
I should probably cut some lines between the center stone to the two on the side, for the same reason as for the 'thrope tail.
>>47923680
Sorry the images are huge. They're almost as big as I am a huge faggot.
>>47923731
>~200kb
>1280x802
No anon, you're one of the good guys.
>tfw bought a new team for a new game over the weekend
Time to get busy, then.
Why the shit does the instructions sheet for the Vindicator tell you to put the Rhino's doors on, if the Vindicator's extra side plates don't fit over these doors?
>>47923774
What game is this?
>>47923904
Looks like Guild Ball.
>>47923910
Based on the snake, Union as the faction.
http://steamforged.com/gb-union
>>47923904
>>47923910
>>47923939
Yup, it's Guild Ball, the Union team. Players are Blackheart, Gutter, Rage, Avarisse & Greede, Decimate, Mist, Snakeskin, and Coin.
I love the A&G model. The little guy is actually magnetized, and you pop him off the model when he jumps out to play football.
>>47923680
>>47923694
>>47923720
That looks cool, I have stuff I need to make molds but I have no idea what I'm doing, especially when I see people mixing putty, greenstuff and miliput and shit, meh
>>47923837
How old is the manual? Why are you telling us now? Are you having trouble figuring it out? No? Then you're just procrastinating. Get back to work.
>>47924079
I found this super helpful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_87cjGF1eJA
>>47920903
Zinge Industries. Best wheeled kit I've used so far.
What putty do you use to hold miniatures together before/while painting?
>>47925261
Blu tack
>>47925261
tiny bit of super glueim lazy
I've been working on this little tank from puppetswar, pic shows my progress in four days. Paint, decals with chips and rust, weathered and washed with lenses painted. Its turned out pretty well so far I think. The last thing I want to do is a little bit of detail work on the treads.
>>47925627
What model is this? Looks good
>>47925701
Its an mk II turret on a turret platform. The hatch opens and theres a pilot inside so I thought it would make a neat little light tank.
What's a good way to achieve the red-glow effect pictured here without using an airbrush? I was thinking just a very light drybrush before applying the white paint-yellow wash for the core.
Ok, this should be a quick alter. SHouldn't take more than a couple of minutes.
First we remove some of the parts we want to replace
>>47926038
Forgot picture
>>47926057
Next, I apply paint until it's covered. Done
>>47926078
>>47926057
Wew
>>47925261
Blue tack or whatever your local brand of tack is called. You can get it at any dollar store. Malleable gum works too but less well
>>47926028
None of the words you just said make sense in a sentence this way.
>>47926192
No habla ingles? Made perfect sense to me.
>>47926028
That might work; the other angle you might want to try is red glazing towards the center before washing it.
I need an AA turret I can stick on top of a Russ chassis, preferably on that's not too awful tall. But all the ones I can find are all EU based. Ideas for a US provider?
>>47926351
What's the issue with EU?
>>47926378
Maybe he doesn't want to wait 2 weeks for his shit?
>>47926390
Oh.
Bits have never taken more than a week for me, but maybe I just get lucky.
I'm also patient for stuff I want
>>47926378
I'm in butt fuck nowhere and for some reason anything outside of the US takes forever to get here. It shouldn't really matter once it makes it in the states, but for some reason they like to sit on it.
it's been a while /tg, somhow during greenstuffing the gaps i dropped my clone. that sound when mini hits hardwood floor...
but i got it back together plus i worked on the base some more
>>47925627
thats the most unorkified grot tank ive ever seen
>>47926028
Glow effects using traditional brush are usually done using glazes.
>>47926378
Ask about 50% of Britons today.
>>47927362
what am I looking at here? not that it isn't neat
>>47923680
Why are you doing a two parter for a base?
>Get a bit of glass.
>Build a Lego frame, clay around the bottom.
>Sit all your bases in there face up, blutac for security.
>Pour silicon over the top. Once that cures you have your mould.
>Cast resin inside for solid flat bottomed bases.
Finished my terminators.. not feeling very good about them. Hopefully basing them will cheer me up.
Also, it stings when you hit your skill limit. My freehanding sucks and the paint job isnt neat but i cant make the effort to take more time.
Any tips on how to improve? Also touch up work?
>>47928936
Do the old 2nd edition thing of putting a printed banner on the middle guys bannerpole.
>>47928936
I like them,but i personally think you could have used a darker red. Having complementary contrast is nice, but i think the red looks too bright.
>>47928936
Pics are a bit too blurry to actually make out the fine details of the models, but they're not bad. You can officially state that you're batter than 60% of the people who post here. You've kept inside the lines at least.
The things I can pick on is the firetruck red weapons, and just a really boring colour scheme. Whites could use a wash or something to give depth, edge highlights may need some touch ups to straighten them up.
>>47926553
>order suspicious packages from Islamic countries
>wonder why customs is checking it out
>>47928936
>>47929007
a darker orange instead of the red could work great with the grassgreen too and make for a nice contrast
>>47928936
you could try to work the grips of the hammer as if they where banded with leather like the middle grip in pic related
the grip on the upper left one (the only one i can see good enough) looks kind of greasy
I think this constitutes a heavy flamer.
>>47929222
green's complementary is red not orange though. Is there a reason why you would use orange? Also i am usually a fan of golf course bases, but i think it would look silly under a green slab such as his armour
Screen of my current project to design shapeways models of modular, ring-engine spaceships inspired by no franchise in particular. Scalebar is in 5mm squares.
>>47928936
also it just occurred to me, try(not on the models, try on some scrap thing) to highlight the green with a mix of the base green plus yellow, that desaturated yellow you used for highlights makes them more boring in my opinion.
Any advice on how I should base these? Don't really care to do the generic grass, but feel it would look the best. Want to figure something out before I go to the hobby store to buy other things.
>>47929814
Try churches
>>47929814
Make them fight necrons.
>>47929814
a dark colour to contrast with how bright they are.
Some sort of black ash wasteland type thing.
>>47929829
Silly anon, they're not knights.
>>47929814
>>47929874
Basically this. You need something dark to make all that shinyness stand out even more. I'd go for the good ole' post terminatus look. Use sand, paint it black, drybrush with some kind of grey. Add skulls, bones and burned grass to your own liking. Should look pretty sweet.
>>47928936
green red and white, the Christmas marines
>>47929814
I could see a forest/jungle or dark swamp kind of base going on there.
>>47929874
>>47929936
just sand will look good? some video I was watching said baking powder/soda (don't recall which) looks good as sand since it's more fine.
>>47929829
nice meme
>>47929841
necron bits would look cool with the above suggestions, but I don't have any atm
>>47923347
I regret gluing the shouldpads on because I'll be priming them red and painting the shoulder trim black so that will be a little tricky.
I leave assault marines heads off so the yellow is easier but I've never had trouble getting the brush between the bolgun and chest.
>>47930085
>necron bits would look cool with the above suggestions, but I don't have any atm
you could do the generic ash wastes and green crystals look.
You can get crystals like that from green stuff industries or zealot miniatures.
>>47929536
Now we're really getting places with this thing. Just gotta add some joint details, engine block and such, finish up the main turret and I think it'll be good to go.
>>47928613
I didn't do that base the way you're describing because it was my test mold to make sure I understood the process. A simple thing with smooth surfaces. I fully comprehend what you're saying, and I agree that it is a better way to do something like a base. I just wanted an easy option to test doing a 2-part mold first.
>>47925627
could you put a marine next to it or put a 60mm base under it to give a better idea of it's size?
>>47927362
hope the feet aren't glued to the base otherwise painting is gonna be a real pain
>>47930123
that sounds like it would be cool, I already got the new green gem shit. I couldn't find crystals from either of those sites, but I found this where a guy made crystals from sprue that I think I'll do http://fromthewarp.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-make-simple-necron-crystal-bases.html
>>47930073
The finer, the better. Baking powder should be primed befor applying paint, so be careful. Also mixing and matching might give you some good results and better texture.
>>47920504
>modern johnny
Looking good
>>47920347
So /tg/, got into painting minis a bit after following the thread. Bought some shitty brushes to start out with, and they all went to shit, so started buying some nicer ones, especially for detail work.
How the fuck do I learn to care for brushes? Some of the nicer ones aren't keeping their tips worth shit, and the bristles split off into 2-4 bunches. Given that these aren't shit brushes, I'm assuming this is all my fault. I'm cleaning them off after use before they can dry out, and I'm not storing them sitting on their tips. Any thoughts/links?
Also, all my brushes that do keep their bristles together seem to all bend slightly at the end in a curve. how's that happening?
>>47930628
i think you could be imprinting too much strenght on your brush, when putting colour on the palette do a twisting motion, don't splat it around or you will deform the brush. when painting don't do movements like you are drybrushing, never bend the tip, just make it contact the surface without applying any strenght.
>>47930628
>Be careful when thinning your paints not to suck the paint straight up the ferrule by adding too much water
>use some dishwashing soap to get the pigment out of your brushes when working extended periods of time
>get some master's brush soap for condition after cleaning
>use a separate brush for washes/glazes/special paints
>>47930435
>I couldn't find crystals from either of those sites
I'm sorry. Totally screwed that up and got both names wrong.
http://www.greenstuffworld.com/en/99-resin-crystals
http://www.anarchymodels.co.uk/anarchy-crystals-8-c.asp
Finished my DP for a comp. That's the photo I've submitted. Pretty happy with the end result, although it's hard to judge one's own work after staring at it for that many hours.
>>47930957
i think it would have been nice if you did something more noticeable with the wings, they are pretty big after all.
>>47930781
hmm not sure I want to pay ~$10 instead of make them, but it's definitely giving me second thoughts about if I want to do Necron crystals or another color
>>47931053
Yeah the thing is if they come in transparent resin and you paint the underside white they look kind of glowy. Might be a cooler effect on the bases.
The whole painting the glue contacts white before assembly thing works on the regular models as well btw.
If you ever were to do necrons to fit with that scheme and were thinking about swapping their transparent rods to a different color you can get the right sizes from Plastruct in the corresponding colors.
>>47930672
>>47930741
>Too much strength
Fuck. Probably guilty there. Any way to undo it, or just get a lighter touch?
>Be careful when thinning your paints not to suck the paint straight up the ferrule by adding too much water
Probably guilty here. Any way to undo that, or any better ratio for thinning?
>>47931153
if you are careful even overdiluited paints shouldn't get to the ferrule, just make sure not to load too much paint
>Any way to undo it
none, you could try cutting the ruined part, but it usually ends up ruining the brush even more
Got 10 of them to this stage.
Time for details, then shading the details, the highlighting everything and it should be good.
>>47931030
You're right. Thinking of tweaking them... scared shitless of fucking him up now though
>>47931510
well at worst you can fix him right?
>>47931694
Guess you're right
hi /wip/, i am looking to bay some warpaints forom armypainter, but i need their yellow to be very bright, anybody has used it? How bright is it compared to flash gitz yellow? Seeing this pic it looks very bright, but some others are very much darker and look almost ochre and as you know you can't trust pics.
>>47932643
buy of course
>>47931186
Damn. Ah well, guess I'll start putting aside a few bucks for replacements. Thanks for the info.
The paint job is inspired by WW2 bombers.
>>47930957
i really like the purple on the hammer. looks awesome
>>47921508
Looks like something from Savage Orc Anon.
>>47926028
Use glazes. First layer should be the furthest out from the light source, with each successive layer staying just a little bit closer, with the brightest color right next to the light source. Don't forget to make the model's base color brighter than the rest of the base in that area to simulate the lighting. Not too bright, just enough to notice.
>>47926192
>hurr durr I'm a dumb faggot who can't speak English but mocks others when I think they're worse than me
Clearly.
Howdy guys, skellybro here. May have found the best alternative for citadel in the form of Montana Cans out of Germany. Watched them tool around with it and bought a 400ml can at 7 bucks to test it out. They also make a primer but they were out, so I will be conducted the rub, scratch, drag test with their base coat of white acrylic.
>>47933501
>all that NMM
>Savage Orc Anon
Yeah right, quit riding that guy's clit. Her work is like 90% pop and contrast.
>>47933283
Looks really nice but there's a big ugly crack across the top hatch on the turret.
>>47933623
That can will kill your lungs and models. I recommended a turquoise can from that brand as they were the only acrylic company to make sprays of turquoise for some guys' SoH and he said it was terrible. Splattered his whole room with green mist and drowned his models.
Montana cans are for walls and graffiti only, not delicate miniatures.
>>47933655
That's because the hatch opens up like two doors.
>>47932643
That's because AP has two yellows. One dark one light.
>>47930957
That black armor highlighting is awesome. How did you do it? Drybrush and wash?
Everything about this model looks great. Only thing I think could be improved is the head has a very large jaw sculpt and the red skin could use some highlighting like the rest of the model. The base rim, basing material, weapon, and non-skin parts of the model all look great.
>>47933689
I will post my own findings here anon.
>>47933724
ah , sorry i forgot to write it, i meant demonic yellow and googling it i have found a wide array of colours, as normal when googling colours.
>>47933852
Daemonic Yellow is darker and less yellow and bright than Flash Gitz Yellow. It's still yellow but it leans more towards ochre whereas Flash Gitz is like blinding yellow.
>>47933883
thank you
>>47933708
Ah, well then ignore me because I'm an idiot.
>>47933623
>>47933689
>>47933780
I'm interested in this. While we're at it, just moved to Berlin and I'm still trying to find a nice craft store, trying to figure out the local craft store acrylics and alter adventure onto spray cans.
>>47930536
>modern johnny
>Looking good
Time to reload!
>>47934113
Due to the fact they allow you to choose how wide or stream of a spray you want when you purchase the can, im going to try and get a shop in colorado to ship a can of the white plastic primer to me so it will be there when i get home, this way i can compare the two and really see if there are any particular differences in them. Also while the other anon says it will "kill your lungs", majority of the videos shown show artists using it without masks, or just using a simple hospital masks due to them being so close to the painting they are using. They also apparently have an arrange of effects such as granite texture and crackle. But, as i said, i will do an indepth analysis for my favorite board. If things come out well, this will be a huge boon to a citadel alternative that doesnt have the messy spray of the usual cans. Ive been using the x2 primer and im just about fed up with how bad it spits. The fact you can choose what kind of spray nozzle you want is an interesting factor.
>>47934186
have you met any veteran graffiti artists? they have sprayed themselves retarded
>tiny spec of paint bridges a gap between two parts of the model.
>>47934157
PRAISE JOHNNY!!
>hobby store almost empty on Vallejo selection
>full on Citadel paints
>the only red wash they had was the gigantic tub for $8
off to youtube to learn how to turn this red into wash I guess
>>47934320
Are you comparing open aired priming of miniatures to making spray paint murals? Are you using copious amounts of paint indoors with no ventilation? Are you not sure -you- are not the retarded one, anon?
>>47930365
Next to a Not!Guardswoman and las cannon on a 60mm base. I really like this tank, was the first time trying a targeting lens in this style. Had a lot of fun painting it to.
>>47934773
Gracias sir. Looks like it would be big on a 60 and I need to find something to fit on 50s, perhaps puppetswar's newer walker bots would work...
>paint half my army
>realize my color scheme is shit
>looks messy and too thick somehow
>also if I want another scheme I'll need to blow more money
> . . .
>time to strip
Almost done now, just got to base it and touch up a couple of areas
>>47933283
that looks awesome, post a pic where we can see everything?
>>47934986
This is my Enforcer from puppetswar, hes on a 60mm base, if this is the model you were talking about
>>47935303
nah, it's this one, its fairly new
http://puppetswar.eu/product.php?id_product=597
What's the easiest way to get psychic hoods? I want to make some custom librarians.
>>47935844
Grey knight torso backs, they all have psychic hoods.
>>47935073
Nice! is that a Stock Model? or was this self sculpted?
Done. Think it came out pretty okay given the printing restraints. Anything in particular stand out that could be spruced up a little?
>>47935880
Oh right.
Those have the pegs reversed though, right? Shouldn't be an issue matching them with regular torsos?
>>47935935
Nah, just cut off the pegs. They match up with most torsos okay, although I think the older ones are a little differently shaped. You make have to use some liquid greenstuff to get them to line up, but it shouldn't be too rough.
>>47935971
Alright, thanks.
I'll buy a Sternguard Box and a Purifier Box and make my libbies with the stuff from that and other bits I have.
>>47936018
Just buy the GK torsos on eBay they're like a buck each. Same with the GK force weapons. It's a waste of money to buy the entire box.
>>47936139
I couldn't find any torsos though... maybe I'm just bad at Ebay.
>>47935911
It's a Malifaux model with a head swap as I thought the standard head looked terrible
>>47936221
I just checked and it looks like most of them sold out a month or two ago. I guess GK parts aren't popular right now. Other factions do have plenty of parts for sale.
I'd just wait a month or two, a seller will probably put them up by then. In the past, when I was looking for spare parts, tons of GK parts were on eBay.
>>47935814
That guy is next on my list, I didn't have any spare 50mm bases but heres a shot of it on the under side. Looks like it'd fit pretty well, def to large for a 40mm and to small for a 60mm
So I finally got around to painting a bunch of models I had primed, and I noticed dust had built up on them.
I don't want to risk fucking with the primer, so how would I want to clean it? Would a toothbrush suffice, or should I soak them in soapy water, or what?
>>47936635
i usually use water and a paintbrush, tends to work, and won't hurt the primer any more than paint would
>>47936671
Alright thanks.
I should really stop putting models on my shelf for months at a time, but I get distracted by work so often.
>>47920347
I haven't been painting for very long, but I have a question for you guys:
When I drybrush my minis, the result comes off very rough. I use drybrushing to go over the tops of details, but it always ends up looking really rough up close. Is there any way to fix this? I'm trying to get a smoother texture on the soft carapace of termagants at the moment.
>>47936828
Thin your paints and use less, you're using too much paint right now it looks like.
It also could be a product of your primer, and the drybrush is picking up the details.
>>47936635
Rinsing them in the faucet or blowing on them with canned air will work.
>>47936859
My primer is Corax White, and I follow with Nuln Oil shade. Is there a way I can smooth out the primer beforehand?
>>47936828
Drybrushing will always look dusty. The only solution is to use highlights instead of drybrushing, or use a wash to hide the dustiness. This isn't possible with white unless you maybe did some kind of white glaze. But if you were drybrushing light blue on dark blue, you could use a blue wash or glaze to hide the roughness.
>>47936896
Multiple thin dustings of primer.
>47928351 thnx anon. it's a rackham nemesis clone bursting from it's clone/holding tank
>47930397 it's not atached to the base yet
>>47936902
I've been thinking about using glaze, since that seems to make 'Nid skin look better anyways. What would you recommend?
>>47930319
Fair enough. Good luck with your casting adventures.
>>47936907
So, I need to get a pot of Corax White too?
My converted Arkhan the Black, not completely done, have to finish base and that's about it.
Just dropping by to show hard deep of a whole I have dug myself in with my color scheme on these fliers.
The purple still needs another layer but I am doing work on the shrines for the sides right now.
Yellow is actually getting better and more solid but I still have a lot of details as well as unattached bits to do. I swear I have done 4 or 5 coats.
The white fucking sucks.
Also >>47937429
>>47937541
>hard deep of a whole
how deep of a hole.
Im going to bed.
>>47935242
Cheers, I have a plog on DakkaDakka with build progress. Give it a check if you're interested!
"Blimy's Sepheris Secundus INQ28 Plog"
>>47937541
Oh VikingAnon you are in over your head.
Going to need a close up of each one to properly laugh
Did you prime white? If so is the white one even painted or just exposed primer you lazy son of a hitch.
>>47930225
Looks awesome, might be tempted to use these with High Frontier 3rd provided it ever ships.
>>47928987
>>47929007
>>47928987
>>47929007
>>47929045
>>47929222
>>47929564
Thanks for all the feedback. I will do something about the red. Basically the whole hammers were new for me. I will get a cool banner for sure, not sure if there is a better method yet but i used to print and then PVA glue. The highlight thing is a great idea, i only recently read that white desaturates. Perhaps basing them might help me as well. Anyway thanks for the comments!
>>47929943
Choo Choo
>>47933581
>>hurr durr I'm a dumb faggot who can't speak English but mocks others when I think they're worse than me
>Clearly.
Because it makes sense to drybrush red, paint white in the center and then wash it yellow to create a glow effect somehow
No
>>47925878
It does, well done. Where did you get the tracks?
anyone else taking advantage of the (slight) drop in the pound to pick up anything from forgeworld?
I got a unit of plague toads and that summoner with the deformed puppy.
>>47938246
Picked up a Thanatar and a big pile of Thallax, plus some Castellax stand ins from a third party, saved a cool 75$ altogether. It's been a good night. I'm gonna need more blue paint.
Anyone know if it's possible to take the parts from an old Immolator and put it on a new Rhino body? Should be getting one soon and I really hate the old Rhino bodies.
>>47938198
Thanks! Its all apart of the turret platform kit, each track is a huge chunk of resin that you glue together.
>>47933355
Glad someone noticed it, it's my favourite part.
>>47933744
Black is just layering/glazing, no wash, nor drybrush. The jaw was my biggest GS-involving conversion as of yet, so it's far from being perfect, true that. Thanks for the kind words, glad you like it.
>>47929814
Are they Auric Patricians, or Minotaurs? I can't tell if it's gold or bronze.
>>47938507
homebrew, aka get a can of gold spray paint and outline them with silver followed by a little red, black, and white detail if they're lucky. I'm just now learning how to paint properly
isorian squad leader for Gates of Antares, he looks rough as shit in the photo, but that's mainly a combination of gloss varnish I did so I could take the squad out for a game, and my phone camera being anus
first time doing actual eyes, turned out pretty well
>>47938661
The pupil should be a little bit rounder or his eyelids should be a little bit more closed for a more natural look
/r/ing Scratch building templates for Leman russes and orky stuff. Can someone hook me up?
>>47929943
That's been somewhat bothering me about my Dark Angels for literally 18 years now.
>>47938806
did someone say christmas
>>47938833
is that the red gobbo?
>>47938806
Then simply don't use pure primary colors to paint them?
>>47938845
one of many, sadly, I just like the colour scheme.
it's a soviet gobbo force, i have one with wodka and another with an accordion
>>47938861
Sadly? Comrad, you are pushing for the better treatment of grots everywhere. The GRC is fighting the good fight!
>>47938853
>>47938875
>>47936559
That surface looks coarse as hell. Is it 3d printed?
>>47938909
I made mine with a much darker red for the guns, tan ropes and leather gun pouches.
>>47938833
>did someone say christmas
Jingle bells, jingle bells!
>>47939880
Oh god those sculps are fucked.
>>47939880
>Brother Rudolph, I can't stop dancing! We've been trapped to this hellish jingle for days.
>End my suffering Rudolph. Save me from this snowy nightmare.
>>47939923
>Oh god those sculps are fucked.
The ad copy referred to them as "Spaced-out Space Marines."
speaking of jingle bells, heres the squad with basecoats done.
didnt realize the photo came out so crappy.
>>47939991
Space Marines were murders and psychos pumped full of combat drugs originally, remember.
>60 fucking euros for silver tower
thank you based brexit(on wayland games)
Carcharodons Astra, represent
>>47940029
where the fuck is accordion ivan?
>>47936559
Well I'm glad I can eyeball guessing the base size of stuff now but yeah what's with the layered 3d printed texture on the main body, that's a little disappointing.
>>47940066
da, accordion is delay for make to paint more thirty soldier first.
True comrade be inspire by just idea of accordion.
>>47940062
>Carcharodons Astra, represent
I *love* Mk V Armour!
Wow... slow day here on WIP, huh?
Very early shot of a new Death Company lad with an inferno pistol. He will be one of three or four who don't just have bolt pistols and chainswords.
>>47921508
This model is very well painted, yet I still find the smoke to look really really bad.
Smoke almost always looks bad. I think it's because you can't really paint it interestingly.
Pic related. It's one I painted and it has smoke.
I think the bubbles-shapes are easier to make look good than "tuft"-shapes.
im looking for a nice white primer any suggestions?
>>47941088
dunno, I like both kinds of smoke, but the former does kinda look like clots of jizz
>>47938909
those are some pretty nice chaos raptors
is black or white the best primer for painting red?
>>47941643
Depends what you want the final to look like.
>>47941643
im painting blood angels, not sure how dark they should be.
>>47941704
meant for >>47941686
>>47941704
>im painting blood angels, not sure how dark they should be.
Finally! Something I know something about!
A white undercoat will give you a brighter, more vibrant red. Even if you start with Mephiston Red, you'll get a much brighter end result. Personally, I prefer the bright Second Edition red (see >>47940381), so I start with Evil Sunz Scarlet, but that's just my own personal preference.
I undercoated some of my older models with Zynolyte Light Gray All-Purpose Spray Primer. It dulls the red, although you might not be able to tell unless you had a white model and a gray model side-by-side.
A black undercoat will ... well, "deepen the shadows" euphemistically puts it lightly. I will say that da GW studio ladz do in fact use a black undercoat and Mephiston Red base coat on a lot of the models in the Sons of Sanguinius painting guide, but honestly, I didn't care for the results when I tried it myself. Just to get up to that Blood Ravens red from Dawn of War (still not the colour I wanted!) took more coats of paint than I'm normally accustomed to.
>>47941116
>>47921474
I think it would be really cool if you tried aerogel. It's an exotic engineering material that looks like solid smoke. No idea how it is to work with; I just have my block of sample material
>>47941791
see ive used a rather dark grey for all my previous blood angels. i don't know if i should finish them with that same primer or not. Anyways whats a white primer you would recommend if i were to use one
>>47937584
I like the rosemary you put on those hills. Great flavor
I think we have our new WIP image.
>>47941088
try using black weathering pigments over the white/grey base
>painting batch of plague marines
>fly lands on one dude's head
>shoo him off
>go take a piss
>fly is back
>shoo him off again
>he took a shit on the plague marine's helmet and I have to wipe off fly poop from my mini
m-maybe this is a good sign from papa nurgle
don't have a pic but here are some cool looking nurgle chosen (not mine)
>>47936917
narf... sorry /tg
>>47928613
thnx anon. it's a rackham nemesis clone bursting from it's clone/holding tank
>>47930397
it's not attached to the base yet
>>47941892
>see ive used a rather dark grey for all my previous blood angels. i don't know if i should finish them with that same primer or not.
It depends. I didn't see the need to go back and repaint my models that had the gray primer. There's a difference, but it's not huge.
>Anyways whats a white primer you would recommend if i were to use one?
GW used to make a white spray that was pretty good, but they've changed the name so many times since then and raised the price to $17.00 a can, so I've been looking for cheaper alternatives. I hear Tamiya's white primer is good, but it's $11.00 a can and about half the size of the GW can.
Rust-oleum Painter's Touch 2X is cost-effective, but it goes on a little thick. I'm concerned, though, that I *may* be losing detail by using it, especially if I use it on older metal models where the detail wasn't that sharp to begin with.
I also just tried Rust-oleum Universal Bonding Primer. This looks very promising - nice and thin! - and is much cheaper than the GW variety, but I have yet to actually try putting paint on it.
>>47942185
thank you very much.
>>47942185
Painters touch 2X does go on thick and you do lose detail, I only used it on a few minis thankfully.
I'm going to have to try universal bonding
>>47941988
>not gluing the fly to your plague marine
Nurgle would have been proud.
>>47941892
Duplicolor does a white primer; nothing I've touched first hand, but I've heard it recommended on the gunpla/plamo generals and the model generals on /toy/ multiple times.
>>47942421
I'd rather not touch anything recommended by gunpla 'painters'
>>47942681
Including vallejo paints, airbrushes, and the act of cleaning mold lines, right?
>>47942185
>>47942230
Try to find one that just says "Primer" and not a paint+primer combo.
I use the black primer and it goes on nice and thin.
>>47942800
I can agree to mold lines.
>>47934442
Do you know what graffiti is? Meditate upon the third part of your own series of questions.
>>47938661
I like your color scheme, and I bet he looks really nice irl
>>47938833
Nice paintjob and color scheme. Kromlech gobbos all having ultra-wizened warboss-sized grills has always thrown me off but I kinda like it at the same time
>>47939923
I find that hamfisted look charming. A lot of RT-era minis look like the sculptors themselves had too much to drink
>>47943353
>I find that hamfisted look charming. A lot of RT-era minis look like the sculptors themselves had too much to drink
Some of them you can just look at and tell who sculpted them, although I find that more obvious with Squats and Adeptus Mechanicus than wiff deze ladz.
>>47920445
I hope you're going to detail the hammer a bit more? Rivets, cabling, different plating on the power pack for example. Bottom spike maybe some weathering? It looks too tame now imo
Threads pretty kill so here's some progress.
Got ten of them to this stage, now I just have highlights.
Thoughts?
Also, should I do a force weapon nmm on the blade or a normal metallic one? I got a lot of blue on the model so I'm unsure, the banners gonna be mainly blue as well
>>47943866
>Threads pretty kill
That's all you need, anon.
>... so here's some progress.
>Got ten of them to this stage, now I just have highlights.
>Thoughts?
Are you going to paint the gems a different colour, or leave them as blue "nodules"?
Also... seems like the sunken areas in between the plates could be darker. Have any Nuln Oil or Drakenhof Nightshade?
>>47941088
The idea is to have a more "Solid Shadow" kind of look, rather than pure smoke, so I'm hoping the black will let it seem less substantial.
Still, what you've got is more or less exactly what I'm after.
>>47941832
I have zero experience with it. Where would I get it, and can it hold a shape? How expensive is it?
>>47943908
Yeah I just noticed the gems,theyre gonna be silver rims with an actual red gem on them, gonna do that now. thanks for pointing that out
And the sunken areas are actually already washed with drakenhof nightshade, i basecoated calador sky, washed the model drakenhof, then painted the raised bits and plates calador again.
Theyre getting an alatioc blue - teclis - lothern highlight as well
>>47944007
Here's a better pic of what I mean
>>47943908
>>47941899
>world eater
>not painting it red
Oh come on
Converted up my Lord Relictor for my Knights Exemplar army.
>>47944330
You mean a space marine chaplain with thunder hammer and a standard, right?
I thin my paints with medium and such, I believe I thin it enough, but fuck me, I still have brushmarks. What other reasons can explain that? Too much paint on the brush?
>>47944474
>What other reasons can explain that?
Are you perhaps coming back to paint a second or subsequent coat on an area while the previous coat is in that sticky half-dried state?
>>47938853
>pure primary colors
green isn't a primary colour :^)
>>47944435
and Iron Halo
>>47944515
Litterally pure blue+pure yellow
