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>Citadel Painting Guides:
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>Painting guides, Uniforms & Heraldry books, Painting Videos, Visions, ebooks and White Dwarves:
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>Painting Videos only
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>DIY Lightbox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxzC5kqbyw
>How to Moldlines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4LZ8iCSkeU
>Fuckin Magnets how do they work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Tkw7ttTIo
Previous thread, for those keeping track:
>>46039090
My first piece of terrain using an airbrush.
The question is, what sort of rule set does a piece of terrain like this have?
Explodes if damaged by a blast weapon?
reposting this nigger
>>46064844
Give it like one wound or some shit, blocks LoS til shot, large pieplate over terrain. Explodes if hit by template weapons
I am just painting my first figures and jesus christ I never realized how shaky my hands are. That, and how easy it is to accidentally touch a part of the model you didn't mean to when moving the brush. I'm sure that this stuff gets easier with time, but fuck my first models are going to have like 3 coats of each base color just to hid the fuck ups.
Any basing material recommendations? colors/color schemes?
>>46064938
that happens, it gets better with time
>>46064938
Lay off the cafeine, alcohol, sugar, anything that excites you really. Then brace your wrists together on the table.
It should help. Then practice, practice practice.
>>46064938
Make sure your paint is thin so those fuckups dont pile up. Also, keep going. Muscle Memory is half the battle.
>>46064938
Once you paint like 30 guys you'll get used to it and shaky miniatures and tiny details will become normal and easy. Or at least that's how many it took for me, but I have an art background.
Making sure you have a good brush helps too. Bad brushes will either be too thick or the thin ones will not have enough hair on them.
>>46064947
>Any basing material recommendations?
Flock is lazy mode...
>>46065150
... fine basing sand and grass tufts look ten times better.
>>46064947
>>46064947
>>46065150
>>46065150
nah nigga, vallejo texture pastes are where its at
>>46065150
I have some but I dont want it to look like garbage kek.
>>46065170
Do you use that? Can you post a picture of what it comes out looking like?
>>46065162
nice pimp cup nigga
Anyone have a recommendation for good quality brushes? I heard a few threads back that watercolour brushes are better for miniature painting that actual acrylic, but I'm still pretty new to this hobby.
>>46065170
>vallejo texture pastes are where its at
Enlighten us, anon, in the manner of our most blessed saint. We need evidence and testimonials.
>>46065191
Not him but they are pretty sweet. The only problem is they come in a huge jar you will never use completely and they don't have any color so you have to prime and paint it yourself or mix paint into it.
I use Citadel texture because it's easier to use and more convenient with the color in it, but I use Vallejo sand paste for making soft sand desert bases because every Citadel texture past is the same fucking texture: hard sand with color. So jungle = hard sand. Desert = hard sand. Concrete = hard sand. Vallejo has actual different texture.
>>46065197
Kolinsky sable is what you're looking for. A single size 0 will cover all your infantry and non-vehicle needs.
Raphael 8404 is the best brand but Winsor & Newton Series 7 is almost as good and far more popular. Da Vinci is also good. Rosemary is the budget brand without going into shit territory, but you can get a W&N, Da Vinci, or Raphael for $10-13 so why bother.
>>46065221
>>46065191
>>46065170
Ill take pics in a minute
>>46065249
the vallejo ones have color already added. they have like 6 different colors
>>46065249
Thanks for the pics. Yeah those are pretty cool. I think When I start getting some experience I want to base my guys like they are stepping over burning rubble, as I think It would look good with the color scheme. Until then thought I wanted something clean and simple.
>>46065221
>>46065191
>>46065281
These are mine. Base is vallejo dark earth paste, washed black/brown, 2 drybrush highlights. The larger rocks were just pressed into the paste while wet, the shit dries pretty hard
you could easily build this up in layers after the previous layer dried to add some height. its also cheap as fucccck
>>46065365
do you have any minis on them? So I can see how they look in action?
>>46065263
Of course they would release colored versions while I still have an entire tub of the old uncolored version.
OF COURSE.
I'll bet the fucking yellow I used to paint it doesn't match their new colors either. BECAUSE WHY WOULD IT
Reposting my waaaghmobile
>>46065381
nope not yet. sorry anon i just got it the other day
>>46065402
these are the new ones
http://plastickrak.blogspot.com/2013/12/vallejo-modelling-pastes.html
>>46065433
shits tight nigga, love the blood on front, some nigga got pasted
If the anon who posted pic related in the last thread is around, can I get some close ups of your Thousand Sons? They models look pretty bitchin but I don't recognize the parts.
>>46064844
If you want, make it have the statline for an Artillery Gun (T7 W2) and center a Large Blast on it when it dies, causing all models caught in it to suffer a S4 AP5 hit with the Ignores Cover special rule. Models on the top part when it explodes scatter D6" in a random direction, then suffer a S8 AP3 hit and, if they survive, are reduced to WS1 BS1 and I1 until the beginning of their next player turn.
At least, that's what I'd do.
>>46064766
I'm working on a scratch-built Dark Apostle, and while I have already assembled a pretty solid Accursed Cozius (from like 8 different goddamn pieces, the thing should be a Daemon Weapon from how many times I've cut myself trying to cut, sculpt, and glue the goddamn thing together), but I am a little torn. I want (and have the resources) to do a very strong Tusks-style theme for the guy, with tusks and horns protruding from the pauldrons, head, and backpack unit, but I also want to do a human skin motif, with a robe carved from greenstuff in the shape of a screaming human face, with skulls hanging off the backpack, and the pauldrons covered to resemble human faces with greenstuff.
Which should I do? For clarification, I run a mono-Slaanesh list, but I'm trying to redesign my army style now that I've progressed skill-wise.
>>46065261
Goddamn, they look great. Thanks mang
>>46065454
Do many people just use these pastes, or do people usually put rocks and other things on them for more detail?
>>46065669
Most people use cork or PVA glue + sand or various grade sand/pebble mix for basing. Or just straight flock.
A fair amount of people use texture paints since they mimic sand anyway and are more convenient/secure than glue + sand, plus easy to sculpt/landscape with. It's also easier to blend into the model.
However with paste you can't vary the mix or consistency of the texture like you could with different grades of sand fineness or mixing in different sized pebbles.
>>46065669
I'm sure people do just use the pastes, but for most people, once they are over the threshold of 'actually basing your miniatures' instead of blank or just painted bases, they make a bit of effort.
>>46065669
>>46065721
thats up to you nigga, and how detailed and what theme you want. here are some iron warriors siege themed bases i did before i had the paste. now id use paste instead of the sand
>>46065721
>they make a bit of effort.
And yet the same people use airbrushes.
>>46065781
are you retarded?
>>46065781
Airbrushes are a toollike you[\spoiler], judge by the results not the method.
Your argument is like saying people should paint every single recess with a fine detail brush instead of using a wash ever.
>>46065841
Fuck
>>46065841
>hur dur pastes don't take effort
>AIRBRUSHES ARE JUST TOOLS JUDGE BY THE RESULT NOT THE METHOD
That was my entire fucking point, moron. How the fuck are pastes any different from airbrushes?
Any recommendations for converting a skaven to hrud for an inquisitorial warband?
>>46065865
You can use an airbrush lazily and you can use pastes lazily, so yeah, they're both techniques you can use.
If you treat it as the be-all and end-all your shit will be tabletop standard and no better.
If you use it as part of a process, you can make stuff look really nice.
Using pastes does not preclude making a really nice looking base.
>>46064858
noice
>>46065903
You're still talking to the wrong poster, moron. In case you still can't tell, I am pro-paste.
>>46065433
Minis like this makes me want to WAAAGHH
>>46065872
blance did somehin like this, it was in a visions a few months back
>>46065943
... Double fuck.
I should sleep.
>>46065982
do you know which one specifically?
>>46065943
This guy is a mean guy
>>46065943
Ok, so the mistake comes with me saying 'just use pastes' and that sounding like any use of pastes is bad, rather than 'some people only use pastes (and that's fine), but mostly people who are at the point of doing any basing will do a bit more than that as well'.
Thoughts on the heat effect?
Still working on muh manz
I hope you anons can help me with something. Do any of you know how I should go about painting a red hot metal effect on my models? Cause I want to make power swords for my imperial guard that look like they could have just been pulled out of a forge red hot color. Should I start by priming in grey then base coat a dark red and then shade in brighter and more yellowish reds until along the spine of the blade is bright yellow or do I have the wrong idea on how to do this? Any advice would be helpful.
>>46066357
Try to get the colors to overlap a little, making a smoother transition from one band to the next.
>>46066472
Do you mean while they are still wet or do I let each shade dry then paint the next? Also how many shades do you think I should use? I was thinking like 3 a dark red, a orange red and a yellow, which I then need to mix to get a shade in-between each for a total of 5 layers.
What generic paint set do you all recommend? I was looking for a decent set to use for everything.
>>46066468
basically yes. look at reference photos. Its red to orange. Pick where you wan the hottest part to be. Center or the edge. Then start at red in the opposite spot, and work up through orange to yellow and maybe a bit of white
WIP Nurgle Cultist Company Commander
>>46066725
You really ought to just buy the colors you need.
I saw a discussion on basing in the previous thread, and it made me realize how shitty my basing actually is.
I've just been gluing that same brown Army Painter gravel to my bases. Sometimes I throw a rock or some blood splatter on there. Is there any way I can fix this, or make it so these minis don't obviously suck compared to the rest of my army?
I'm away right now, so I don't have pics.
>>46067171
The easiest way to fix it is to prime and paint over the army painter rocks. I'm pretty sure people gave tons of advice in the last thread like use less giant rocks and more sand.
I started going through all my Dark Vengeance cultists that I never use and cut off all of their Chaos stars and stuff.
It's a tad unsettling how well they fit into an Inquisitor's warband.Are we the baddies?
>>46067209
I guess as long as the bases are generally the same color my minis shouldn't look too different.
So I'll need a brush-on primer, I suppose. I'm working with Necrons, so I want to do kind of a dusty, reddish terrain. Recommendations for colors or techniques?
>>46067239
It's a pure, human skull shape!
>>46067239
Your Inquisitor might be, yes.
You can tell who the lawful good Inquisitors are because their retinues are all super pious and uniformly garbed guys like acolytes priests and stormtroopers.
>>46067242
Your Army Painter rocks are already brown and since you want to do Martian red, you may not need to paint at all. Go buy some red weathering pigment and coat your base until it's red, then seal it in.
Since the material you used is so bumpy, a brush on primer is probably going to be a bitch to get a complete coat on unless you water it down so it seeps into the cracks.
>>46066725
not to be a dick but there really isn't a set for everything (unless you literally buy one of those sets that have every paint from the manufacturer). it depends what you're going to paint.
Can someone redpill me real quick on mediums?
What sort should I use with regular paints? Recommended brands?
I asked before about wanting to do a blood effect, and was told I could mix a color with a gloss medium for it. How would that work?
>>46067279
Does Vallejo produce those?
If I can get away with just using rocks and pigment I think I'll be good to go for the rest of my Crons. Though I may have to start painting the base before I glue the model to it. I've been gluing before painting just so I have a place to grip the model.
>>46067300
>redpill
Ugh. All these are simple ass questions to google to.
Just buy any fucking acrylic medium and thin with it. Don't believe medium is any better than water? Then use your fucking shitty tap water and get subpar thinning. You won't know it's any worse since you've never used better, so it's nobody's loss but your own. The internet is totally trying to fool you into wasting your precious $3 that you'll never get back from buying acrylic medium that doesn't work! Why the fuck do you think those products are even still being sold? Because THEY FUCKING WORK
Just use Blood for the Blood God or Tamiya Clear Red mixed with Nuln Oil for blood. Why the fuck are you trying to mix your own blood effects from scratch when you're too stupid to even know how to use acrylic medium as a thinner?
>>46067317
http://www.acrylicosvallejo.com/en_US/rust-and-oil/family/19/88
Closest they have is some sort of reddish orange photo-realistic Mars surface. If you want bright fantasy Mars red you'll have to use MIG, Tamiya, or Forge World or something.
>>46067326
Jesus, talk about hostile. Just curious since I've never used them, calm the fuck down, man.
I was asking about blood because I want to make purple tyranid blood.
Christ, who put a bug up your ass?
>>46067339
Yeah, that should be fine. I'd like for the bases to look like the Necron starting zone in Soulstorm, so a ruddy orange is perfect.
Thanks for the help.
>>46067349
>hurr calm down
Oh look another one of these mewling fucktards.
How about you grow some thicker skin. The post is chock full of useful information. If anyone's making worthless posts it's you.
>>46067349
Here, let me redpill you on /tg/:Quit being a whiny cunt.
>>46067373
Must be hard getting through life constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown, huh? I bet you're a joy to be around.
On topic: can you use medium as a sealant? Or is that a separate product altogether?
>>46067300
>>46067420
>hurr let me just keep being a retard
Google it, dipshit. You're not even worth helping.
Wait, do librarians always have to be blue, or is that just the typical scheme?
I did some quick googling, unfortunately there's little out there that talks about the difference between Vallejo Matt Medium, Gloss Medium, and Thinner Medium.
>>46067445
>>46067384
>>46067373
>>46067326
Shame on you guys. You should know better than to act like this by now.
>>46067420
Must be hard getting through life constantly having to ask people stupid questions because you're too dumb to know anything or look it up yourself.
>>46067459
Uh it's pretty obvious matte medium makes things matte, gloss medium is glossy, and thinner medium doesn't change the glossiness or mattness of the paint.
>>46067452
Codex Astartes says Librarians should wear blue, so really it depends on how Codex-compliant the chapter is.
![c2127epicimperials[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/QHb0gRO.jpg "c2127epicimperials[1].jpg")
Can any old Epic players tell me what the heck the two things are in the top right of the Space Marine sprue here? The gun looking thing and the robot.
Turns out I've got some of them, but I haven't a clue what they are.
>>46067452
It's just the color coding for their specialty. Sort of like Chaplains being black, Apothecaries being white, etc. What I've seen done is the psychic hood and torso armor painted blue, and the rest in regular chapter colors.
>>46067465
>too dumb to know anything
Gee, I sure wish I was born with innate knowledge on how to paint spacemen like you, buddy.
>>46067459
Literally right fucking there, second result in google on DakkaDakka >>46067432
"A basic course in Acrylic Mediums"
Both you and Amazing Retardo up there who's never heard of a search engine are the reason /tg/ and WIP are so full of shit these days.
You're even given amazing advice but "HURR NO BULLY PLS SPOONFEED ME SOFTLY". You know what they call obsessing over the tone of something instead of its content? Being a fucking retard.
>>46067500
>Gee, I sure wish I was born with innate knowledge on how to paint spacemen like you, buddy.
Most of us are smart enough to just Google it.
I'm sorry that you're not. Even though you've been told to do so repeatedly. But /tg/ can't really help you with your brain problems.
>>46067485
>>46067500
Ah, I see.
I'm boring and doing a red chapter and wanted to make my librarian red as well, but the blue might actually help him stand out.
Alright, I'm planning on buying the Skitarii as my first models, anyone have any painting tips, and does anyone know what exact paints I should use for the Metalica color scheme?
>>46067534
You can do the librarian in his normal chapter colors and just paint parts of him blue. Like the arm, or shoulders, or psychic hood, or any combination of those.
Old GW pictures sometimes did the leg, even.
>>46067534
Yeah, that'll break up the monotony of a bunch of red dudes pretty nicely, and he'll stand out as a special model.
I'm running into something of an issue making a red techmarine stand out among a red army, myself.
>>46067491
Land speeder and a legio cybernetica robot. I don't think robots got rules in the newer versions of Epic.
>>46067511
>>46067529
It's really unfortunate that people like this lurk these threads and this board, maybe if we ask enough questions and try to learn enough they'll get fed up and leave. Then we can get back to the reason /WIP/ exists, instead of angry rants.
>>46067534
I think it would look nice. You could do something contrasting and have majorly red power armour with a single blue pauldron, or majorly blue power armour with just the chapter symbol in their colours on one pauldron.
>>46067565
>>46067570
>>46067593
I'll eventually settle on something.
I thought of making the marines themselves have black pauldrons to try and make them less numbing to the eye.
Maybe I could make the librarian wear all black like kind of edgelord and have a blue pauldron.
What's the simplest solution for transporting my figures over a long distance?
I'm considering buying those foam trays and just loading them into a cardboard box. Don't really play with my models so I don't feel like shelling out for an expensive case for them.
Battlefoam looks good, what with their specialized trays. Are they decent or are they overpriced/bad quality?
>>46067624
Are you painting a particular chapter?
An all black unit will make people think he's a Chaplain. I mean, obviously paint your stuff however you want, but just be aware of what stuff is color-coded in the fluff.
>>46067650
I was originally going to do Exorcists.
I think they do black trim and then they keep their jump packs / backpacks black while the main body is red.
I should probably research more before I get to painting.
![Epic_EC_2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/X5WHleY.jpg "Epic_EC_2[1].jpg")
>>46067592
>land speeder
Fuck, you're right. I've only got half of it, it seems. I was hoping it was some turret thing, because the top looks like a modern plasma cannon, and the front is some type of gun.
You wouldn't happen to be able to guess what class of robot that one is by the back, would you? I can't find another image of it anywhere; it is definitely not one of the ones found in the lower part of that image.
>>46067694
Pretty sure that's a contemptor dreadnought.
But this is just going off of my knowledge of 30k vehicles.
>>46067711
Sorry, meant this robot. It can't be a dreadnought because back then they had those squad-shaped leg formations.The purple picture was just confirming the 2-part landspeeder with the plasma cannon thing on top.
I've got 13 of pic related but can't find anything that confirms what class they are. Pic related only shows it's back. The front has the head in the middle of the chest, the heavy bolter extention coming off its back, and its right arm is a long, smooth barrel sticking straight forward at a right angle.
>>46067776
>>46067711
Found another image of it. It's the one right center of pic related.
>>46060540
>good penis worm, what's it made out of
Paper, cardboard and hot glue. Gums are made of Milliput. Teeth are toothpicks.
>>46065221
So pretty much as far from related as you can get, has anyone seen those the Maccrage Blue one mug around?
>>46068506
My lgs sells the Mephiston red mug.
Although tbqhfam I see no reason to acquire such evidently overpriced curio.
>>46066372
Love them.
![IMG_0351[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yNPyMdQ.jpg "IMG_0351[1].jpg")
Anyone know what color I should use to achieve a color scheme similar to this? Thinking of basing my AdMech army around this color
holy shit
whichever one of you suggested i do yriel yellow as the basecoat for orange is my goddamn hero
this makes doing my dark eldar literally 3 times faster and it looks better on top of that
>>46069342
I'm just a fan of overpriced curio. Wish I had a better explanation.
>>46069437
That's just one of the SW bluish greys blended into white and black.
It's going to look like generic blue SW unless you do the black blending.
My latest: a Reaper chaos warrior. Apparently he's called Athak the Crimson Knight, but I I decided to go with classic Tzeentch blue and yellow. For the record, the shield is supposed to be yellow, not terribly done nmm gold.
>>46069563
Then a couple feudal world guardsmen kitbashes that have been sitting mostly painted on my table for about a year.
>>46067511
And yet here you are shitting up the thread instead of helping out.
>>46069578
>>46069588
And then this guy, who's going to a Necromunda hired gun. He's supposed to be a dandy with his puffy sleeves and deldar hairdo.
>>46069582
>replying to old posts
>shitting up the thread instead of helping out
You blind, you dumb nigger? All the questions were already answered and information provided. So what have you done besides shit up the thread?
Any Malifaux folks on? I got a metal Kirai box from a buddy of mine today as he expressed no interest in it and I saw converting potential out of the old kirai and needed some of the mooks that come in her box. The box came with an Ikiryo though which is a model that I think looks like garbage compared to the new plastic sculpt which is coming in on friday. Can you guys think of anything for Ressers that I might be able to run this as a proxy of or convert it into something cool?
>>46067300
Just use the GW blood paint
>>46067559
If you can find a scan of the warhammer visions magazine featuring the skitarii on the cover you can find a metallica guide on the back pages. Skitarii, walkers both included.
Sorry got rid of mine.
How am I supposed to know which color to buy?
I want to paint the claws etc. Of my tyranids in a yellowish-green color (contrary to greyish white skin and dark purple carapace) but I can't just go off about how it looks on the bottle, can I?
I'm thinking about VGC Scorpy green or livery green.
I'd rather not mix since I know I will fuck it up the second time
tried out painting skull/death masks on my terror squad today. Not 100% happy with it but at least its a start.
>>46069976
The one that is left of the sergeant looks great. I think you put too much bone under the eyes of the others which makes it look like a circle
>>46069976
Make the forehead part less wide, and try to draw an upper case T on the mouth. That will make it look like a cool shaped skull such as the Punisher logo or the crux terminatus instead of a fat, squat, blob.
Painting mostly finished perhaps. Need to base.
>>46069563
Nice and crisp! I like the colors on >>46069578 as well.
How do I make transparent paint, or would it be easier to buy some and get more consistent results?
>>46069437
wtf army is this meant to be and how do I start?
Quick question about the chinaman, does he do full sprues so you can customise or is it all one set piece?
Also how do I find the chinaman/anyone similar?
>>46070301
Acrylic medium. Comes in several varieties, like gloss, satin, mat, metal, glaze and who the fuck knows.
Vallejo makes whole bunch of these, GW has that Lahmian Medium® and Tamiya has at least one or two clear acrylic paints.
I think other companies have these too.
You could also try this, but it might need some thinners to work on little men painting scale.
http://www.instructables.com/id/how-to-make-your-own-blank-clear-acrylic-paint-med/
Saw this paint scheme just in another thread, which paints would you use for the skin tone?
Something like prime white, base rakarth flesh and then layer pallid wych flesh? Any ideas?
>>46070301
Buy Tamiya Clear or Citadel glaze. Shooting colored washes through an airbrush also works.
Trying to make one yourself often just makes a milky wash that is best used for feathering and blending rather than a transparent colored glaze.
>>46069995
>>46070194
the mark 4 helmets are literally the worst to try and pull this off on because of how the grill is done. I have a bunch of actual terror skull helmets coming soon. Ty for feedback
first squad of imperial guard veterans done, 3 more to go
>>46070587
Thanks man
currently constructing my tomb blades, gonna paint the chassis and the driver separately but god damn they are fiddly, especially the shield vanes.
>>46067776
>>46067817
looks like a colossus or conqueror
but I don't think it ever had a class
Kingdom Death promo mini - Candy. Needs fox friend Cola put on base before completely done.
>>46071346
Anon your timing is immaculate.
>>46066357
This might help a bit.
>>46066357
You might benefit from using a purple as an intermediary between the blue and black, also not all the bands cover a uniform distance, some of the colour steps are different (the further you get from the edge of the barrel the wider the bands appear.
>>46067634
Bumping my question from last night. Much obliged.
>>46071419
I actually use an old .50mm ammo box with foam cut from one of the super old gw cases, works okay.
>>46067634
some guy said egg cartons. I play guard so i got a small citadel model case for my infantry, my tanks i pack into shoeboxes padded with foam, similar to the foam you get in model cases but i nick it from work where we use it as bag filler.
>>46071393
On that note, is it even possible to do heat effects with a brush? I haven't got an airbrush, but some flamers that would look nice with that effect.
>>46067634
Mine is just an old cardboard box with two wavy foam plates that my HDD came in, but I just carry a Necromunda gang around, so there's no more than 20 models.
>>46071487
It's doable with glazes and washes, takes a while though.
>>46067817
>Found another image of it. It's the one right center of pic related.
That's a Crusader, anon. Forgeworld now makes a "re-imagined" version that is a lot less clunky.
>>46069609
Give her some knives and run her as an Asian Bete Noire.
Well, here it is, anons. After just over a week of work, I've finished my manticore. I promised you pics, and here they come.
1/4; the lighting isn't that great but you can see the highlighting used.
>>46071979
2/4; Try as I might, I just couldn't get the camera to see the directed highlighting I put on the spotlight, so I used a flashlight to show off the glaze I used to simulate glass instead. This has the side effect of making the drybrushing stand out too.
>>46071996
3/4; The launcher rack featured an Omnissiah cog for some reason, so I painted it accordingly. Also, the internal details of the launcher platform required me not to completely assemble the piece until at was almost completely painted.
>>46072006
4/4; of course I magnetized it. the launcher rail for the Deathstrike missile is made from four hunter-killer missile launch rails.
>>46072020
5/4 (derp); getting the nosecone colors to be exactly flat AND circular was a challenge. I'll give you a hint: the solution did NOT involve rubber bands.
>>46070651
>>46071996
really nice work. is the highlight on the lens there from a lightsource or is it actual highlighting? i cant tell, which is a good thing
>>46072063
What you see is from a flashlight, but it has a drybrushed highlight that's only visible under soft light that, try as I might, I just could NOT get the camera to see.
Trying a stylized more artsy feel, still a wip.
Any recommendations for gun colors?
>>46065964
That's the only thing you should do.
>>46066372
the red guy has come a long way very quickly. great work
The commander of the Cadian 151 regiment, "Cadian Liberators"
I need a name for this motherfucker
>>46072841
Colonel Blursy McPictureGuide?
>>46064791
>>46072867
Colonel Blursy it is then.
Gonna baptize him with black primer
>>46071979
>>46071996
>>46072006
>>46072020
>>46072030
really good job buddy
>>46072841
Commander shakeycam mcputmedown
>>46072841
Captain Amer 'The Shield' Ica. No other captain is man enough to lead the Liberators!
>>46072841
Commander Greasy McCleanyourlens
>>46072841
"Iron Lung" Krauser
>>46073171
>>46073017
okay thanks for the input here's a better quality pic
Finished the head
>>46073261
a better quality image of... what?
>>46073277
this is badass
/wip/ im aching for some new duncan content. how can I find those youtube painting guides he did for those beginner, snap fit, made for children orks and space marines they just released? I remember I saw a link to his painting video of the marine but its not on the warhammertv page and I don't remember the name of the product to find it on the storefront. Why doesn't duncan make more videos!?
respostin' from last thread, i've not had a chance to do anymore yet, i'm still unsure about the colour of the cloth, I'll probably darken it down
>>46069609
give it a lantern and a knife and it'd make a cool Datsu ba
>>46073261
1/10 for effort
This is either bait or just sheer stupidity from this anon.
>>46073277
This on the other hand, is gorgeous.
You're the white stormcast paladin anon, innit?
>>46073362
Teal+purple is a dull color scheme, add some points of a light color to spice it up (orange, white, bright green or blue, etc)
other than that, neat
>>46073277
Gyrocopter? Is that you?
first deathwatch almost done. fuck edge-highlighting.
also i cut his shoulder-pad to create a kind of groove for the rifle stock.
>>46073410
I am.
>>46073436
I know it's a raven guard deathwatch marine so it's gonna be dark but at the moment I think it's a bit dull and needs another colour somewhere. maybe make the lenses brighter
>>46069880
In the op there are some GW guides,you can see some colours there(i mean the faction specific guides, you can see a lot of colours there). Or you can just check a colour catalogue
>>46073277
That head is truly splendid.
Alright, /wip/, I might have a chance to buy a Citadel Spray Gun for dirt cheap. I know most of their stuff is mediocre at best, but this is less than 10£.
For context, I have access to a large garage compressor, but I suspect it's not exactly viable for airbrushing. I also have zero airbrushing experience, which is why I'm asking you.
>>46073657
that spraygun is cheap crap, and honestly i'd not even bother
Fuck I love the Burning Chariot box. A foot herald and the exalted flamer chariot right out of the box and with a little magic I can scratchbuild the Blue Scribes as well. I think I'm set for my daemon allies
Like what the fuck.
>>46073884
there are only 3 left mate
>>46073884
>he does not know that drug dealers sells marijuana as basing material for miniatures on big auction sites
>>46073802
The whole kit is a blessing. I got another right after my first just for the bitz.
>>46073657
If you already have access to a good compressor, then I'd spend a little more and invest in a nice but affordable actual airbrush to start you off instead.
The Iwata Neo is something like $60, and is quite a nice brush. It makes for a good starting point.
>>46073410
It wasn't bait anon, just a silly goof until I took the real pic
Here's Ironlung, commander of the 151
Behold, muh bik mek.
Man I fucked up a lot today.
>using colored primer
>drop one model and don't realize there's little specs of dirt on it
>overzealously prime two models, try to save one with water and make it worse
>notice a bunch of mold lines i missed
at least the majority of the people at my LGS don't even paint....
>>46074295
Is that an actual LED in the gun? Because otherwise, I'm impressed of your lighting effects.
However, it would benefit from some highlights and detail work. Right now, he's a bit dark and indistinct.
Here's Ironlung, commander of the 151
from the back
>Trying out colour primer for some marines
>Finish
>Realize I forgot to attach the fucking backpacks and bolters
Gods damn it.
Time to do those by themselves.
>>46074448
Better to leave them separate for painting, usually. Makes it easier, if a little more finnicky.
>>46074520
tried to do that once to an entire ultramarines company, never again.
I primed them on the wrong side and they didn't attach, had to screw them one by one
>>46073474
yeah i know. I thought that all the way through it.
I thought about making the wings white like Sanguinary Guard, but then I thought "yeah not exactly very covert anymore".
He's going to look very plain once the others are done unfortunately.
>>46074520
Probably right.
I just need to make sure I have enough of the paint that is the same as my base coat so the hand on the bolter doesn't look all weird.
Or I could just say they wear black gauntlets on their trigger hand.
>>46074206
This; even a Badger/Paashe single action would be better than that plastic bodied POS. A couple of things to note about using shop compressors, too:
- You need an adapter of some sort (no airbrush uses the bigger shop style connectors). Get one AFTER you have your brush in hand, or do some thorough research on your brush's thread style beforehand (nothing is particularly universal).
- You might want to swap regulators on the compressor, too (or put a low pressure one inline). You won't be using more than about 30 psi, so getting accurate pressure when the dial goes way up to 200 can be a trick.
>>46074938
>>46074206
>>46073681
Thanks, I'll steer clear. I might get an airbrush if I go all-out, though, right now I just paint in very small quantities for Necromunda. Might split it with dad. He always wanted to learn to airbrush.
Gonna have to find one that isn't in Imperial if I do, though.
Any of you lads also have long hair?
I keep finding random hairs escaping from my head and getting sealed under the primer.
>>46075321
I have short hair, but I'm balding
>>46075321
>Mfw I have cancer and dont have hair
>>46075330
>have the kind of beard that would work with being bald
>have a fuckton of hair
you want to trade anon?
>>46074343
Just lighting effects and an angle in which the camera's flash reflects off of it the best.
>>46075321
Mine's curly and goes to my mouth if I stretch it out, I've never had that problem.
I've gotten tiny, ~1cm hairs in the paint when brushing, but that's mostly just dust I believe, and they're way to short to come from my head
>>46075378
I got my beard genes from dad. So nothing over the jawline, cent-sized bald spots, hair count in the 10s-20s per square cm, lacklustre moustache in the same style.
At least I won't grow bald if the hair genes are from anybody else beside dad.
>>46075378
B-but implants are expensive and I'm a starving artist
>>46075376
Get well soon!
>Going over models after priming them
>Missed a bunch of mold lines
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
>>46075376
are you completely hairless?
>>46075499
Hold the fuck up.
Are you Steve Argyle?
>>46075629
Of course not, why would I?
I want to avoid getting the texture paint on my models.
Should I put it on the base and let it dry THEN put the models on?
>>46075625
Mostly, armpits and pubs and some leg/arm hair is still there. All the hair on my ass is gone because of wiping so Im happy
>>46075655
man your handwriting looks like his and he does these blob things for his minion project
why the hell did you delete the image? You're Steve, aren't you?
>>46075719
Nope, pure coincidence
>>46075745
Okay well if you're really him I love your art, keep it up
A better picture of the Ultramarines Honour Guard I painted in my LGS's One Day Daemon painting competition at the weekend.
>>46075321
I tie my hair up before going anywhere near my models. Nothing worse than finding hair/dust mixed in with a paintjob you've spent hours on.
>>46067136
that red is too THICK 4 me
Thin them red paints boy
>>46073436
What are the wings from?
>>46076184
Seeing as he has the DW: Overkill box I think they're the psyber-eagle in there, but I could be wrong.
why hasn't science invented a pill I can take that would make me able to paint
>>46076361
its called ritalin
>>46067624
>>46067674
to make a techmarine stand out among a red army, maybe just give him more metallic colored parts than red?
>>46071296
>>46071544
Thanks for your help, guys.
>>46075321
My hair is long enough to reach my ass, whenever I'm in the workshop I either braid it or wear it in a bun.
Never let your hair lose near models/paint/glue, it can and will get messy.
Wearing a cap always helps, also you don't want your hair from obstructing your view when working.
>>46075499
Starving artist here as well, we can starve together, anon
>>46069599
>NOW THIS IS PURGING
>>46073261
Really like the effect, did you use an airbrush?
Does anyone have coolcastmini's email?
Requesting some Big Mek and Painboy kitbashes. Looking for some inspiration and wanna see what some fa/tg/uys have come up with.
>>46078399
Sure, here ya go. It's basically just a Nob with some Meganob bitz and copper wire for the cable.
>>46078535
Impressively simple, nice job.
>>46072145
Dark purple or green?
>>46078694
>>46072145
I'm with this guy, I think either the usual dark eldar incubi green with very light blended bright green highlights would work, but also leaning toward a similar feel but with purple. Actually I think I like the purple idea better given the loin cloth color.
quick phone snapshot of my current personal project: a lizardmen Blood Bowl team, for a league I'm currently participate.
skin: done
armour: in progress, still needs last highlights, work on the metal and a few more shadows for the paint damage
>>46078824
>>46078824
dunno shit about bloodbowl or lizard people but I especially like the little dude with helmets, armor should look great once highlighted and skin is good
Lads.
Two simple questions - a simple green bath would remove all the texture paint from a base, right?
And do I just throw my model in the freezer for a while to break up plastic cement so I can remove him from the assault marine platforms GW gives me?
>>46078925
Freezer won't break plastic cement because plastic cement welds the two pieces together.
Some DA chapter standard wip. Will probably repaint the wing on his left side tomorrow.
But I had the choice of either simply buying the failcast DA standard bearer or making a new one from scratch for my old brother Bethor.
I chose the less annoying option.
>Pop open my Ghenna's gold
>Shit turned red
what the fug?
>>46078969
How would one go about doing it then?
>>46079130
Haaave you tried shaking it? Because, y'know, Gehennas Gold is basically red paint with metallic shit in it.
>>46079130
shake it a bunch
metallics separate more than regular paints
at least it isnt screaming bell, which is hands down the worst paint i have ever purchased
Greeting /wip/. I have just assembled my first box of miniatures ever.
I was wondering if someone could recommend some GW paints to match the color scheme of pic related.
I'm choosing GW simply because there is a store 2 miles from my home and it's just easier than waiting for shipping, etc.
>>46079130
>How would one go about doing it then?
Cut it. The weld is a solid piece of plastic now, no other choice.
Now you understand my hatred for people who use the stuff and then sell it on ebay.
>>46079181
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-DK/Citadel-Layer
>>46079157
>>46079155
I bought it over a year ago, shaking isn't doing much.
Might just need a new pot.
>>46079221
Stir it with a stick.
>>46079221
keep shaking
shake it a lot, it'll go back together
i've had my gehennas gold for 2 years at least now and its still perfectly fine, if you have some acrylic medium you can try adding a little in
How do I stop buying paints? I have bought 22 paint pots in the last to weeks and I don't see any end in sight.
>>46079243
>>46079245
gave it to my hyperactive little brother and had him shake it for me
worked like a charm
>tfw waiting for invoice to combine shipping
this is hell
>>46078925
no idea what a "green bath" is.... I'm not a native english speaker.
I always use a disinfectant called "sterilium", because it's very effective and doesn't harm plastic. No idea if it's available in your country. Be aware that not every disinfectant is able to remove acrylic paint, sometimes it comes don't to testing.
In the past I've used PVC floor cleaner from a company called "Mellerud" but I guess you can buy similar stuff from other brands, just don't use cheap products, in my experience they never worked well.
>>46078890
They are sweet little buggers those Skinks! :D
thx for feedback, even though the pic is terrible. As soon as they are more presentable I'll make some pics with a decent cam.
>>46065191
For you anon, freshly done in anticipation for a FW Order. The Cork, and bones are corkboard and Kromlech basing accessories
