/tg/ - Traditional Games

who knew painting guardsmen was actually fun, I guess it's the smaller surface area, but for krieggers it takes me three hours to make something table-top worthy, which I like

Can someone explain that fridge-lightbox-meme for me?
I put my recently painted mini into the fridge for a picture but the light is still shit.

>>57326968
Most fridges are all white inside with a strong light that makes for good photography conditions. Your fridge, in contrast, appears to be grimy and dim unfortunately

>>57326968
How can you fridge wrong?
Did you have a block of cheese infront of hte bulb?

>>57318441
Thanks for setting shit up santanon, I enjoyed it and I got cool toys.

>>57327038
It seems so. Its around 20 years old i guess. Maybe i should get a new one some time.

>>57326968
depends on the fridge, probably

>>57326942
I always enjoy the shit out of making Fire Warriors
Something about the little guys in a world with huge things makes them fun

>>57327321

this is it, I think. I always compare my krieggers to my leman russ or my malcador infernus and it's just... the scale of it man, it's a cool feel

Thoughts on custom fireblade?

>>57327079

>>57327354
I would lose the hat made out of drone bits and GS one or just not have a hat.

>>57327376

heh, this is not bad

What drills do people use to drill holes in Fusion Blasters for example?

>>57327354
Like the design for the most part, save the hat
The spear is cool

>>57327354

Fellow texanons, does hobby lobby have decent mini paints?
I don't want to pay citadel prices

>>57327383
What does gs mean
>>57327432
>>57327451
What if I took the pokey bits off the hat?

>>57327451
Not really sure they carry the right kind of paints for plastic minis, only seen acrylic based paints there.

>>57327548
do you think they at least have spray undercoating?

>>57327540
I dont think it'll help much
It looks like a straw hat, not something you'd wear in combat

>>57327540
GS is Green Sctuff (modelling/sculpting putty).

I think it would lookbetter without the giant nubs.
Try trimming them down a bit, not completely off.
See how that looks first rather than just rip them all off.

>>57327548
basically all paint used for minatures is acrylic..

>>57327616
Why don't you order some vallejo or AK stuff online?

>>57327644
>It looks like a straw hat,
...
No, really?

>>57327451
I hate this sjit GW paints are great and they arent even that expensive. You get what you pay for. Army painter paints are cheap as fuck but they kinda blow

>>57327451
>>57327900
also just buy fucking krylon spray at lowes or wherever its like $3 a vcan

>>57327900
>You get what you pay for. Army painter paints are cheap as fuck but they kinda blow

Literally all big paint companies sell cheaper than GW. And most of them are equally good or better in quality.
Thats without even considering the retarded pots GW is using and the fact that all other companies sell 17ml instead of just 12. For less!

>>57327354
I love the hat. Its very japanese Ronin. Pretty stylish IMO.

>>57327711
>tfw no samurai jack tau mini

A Luftwaffe officer I painted and based on the weekend.

>>57328286
Looks great. I suggest to paint the rim of the base though.

>>57326762
r8 my current wips
1:

>>57328400
2:

Decided I needed a break from edgy space elves, So I decided to break out a recent ks haul to build an asobh warband

>>57327644
Thats the goal for the japanese space communists!

>>57327649
I shouldve known lol
Will trim over.

>>57328137
A man can dream

>>57328437
What minis are that?

>>57327376

Underrated post.

>>57328400
>>57328421
they look pretty cool so far! death guard pic a bit washed out

>>57328500
Kev Adams dwarves from heartbreaker that impact miniatures bought the masters for and did a kickstarter - I think he is still fulfilling pledges but said he planned to put the range on his webstore afterwards. Did some goblins, orcs, earthdawn stuff, etc.

I just need to share this with somebody who will understand. I guess that's you /wip/

>be 18
>finally employed enough to buy into 40k
>ebay.jpg
>play a few games
>love it
>learn about apoc
>learn about super heavies
>see pictures of Epic 40k
>become determined to build a grand army large enough to be Epic with normal models
>fast forward 10 years
>haven't played in 3 weeks due to a new job
>IT IS TIME
>Began my quest to finally finish building every kit I own last week
>a decade of collecting spare kits for conversion projects or as accessories to box sets I only need 3/4ths of
>a decade of trying to build an army big enough to field only conventional scale units in an Apoc game as if it was Epic
>once everything is built I will paint it all to completion, rather than smattering of halfsies

I present to you the totality of my assembled forces.

>In progress
1x Vyper
2x War Walkers
5x Vaul's Wrath Batteries
1x Fire Prism
1x Night Spinner
2x Jetbikes
15x Dire Avengers
20x Guardians

Wish me luck boiz

>>57328616
good luck bud - are the painted ones done/done by you, or is everything here to be painted/repainted? either way, helluva project

Finally started on this guy today, base will have assorted dead plants added later. So far it's just base coats and recess washes done on the white armour, still need to clean up my mistakes tho

>>57328616
>>57328702
also fu i want those goddamn FW corsairs

>>57328364
I've always just painted the rims of my bases grey like in my picture. You're suggesting an earth color or green or something?

>>57328709
God that's gonna look so cherry~

>>57328702
I paint stuff myself but I've always been hella slow. Almost everything there needs to be finished/painted. About 80% is barely better than 2-3 flat colors.

Just for reference of what my scheme is like. I'll post a couple of my models.

Want to build some semi trailers for my army. Was thinking Taurox's with wheels and replacing the transport area with munitorum containers. Not sure if this makes sense but has anyone seen this or anything like it done?

Aaaand done. Atleast I think I am.

Where do most of you buy your magnets from? I want to start magnetizing my vehicles.

>>57328421
where did you get those heads? They look super cool.

>>57328902
>>57328722
They're a great little kit. I bought enough for 20 dudes but I only built 10 and they seem over costed right now so I won't build more for a bit probably.

I will say the corsair heads are too narrow and I wanted my dudes to blend in as part of the craftworld (specialists basically) so I stuck with standard heads.

>>57328951
Not a fan of the giant horns, but then again, I suppose they are just excessive enough considering the legion.

>>57328951
LOUD

>>57327999
>>try my best to get a decent paint job
>>thin my paints
>>still looks like shit because i used cheap paint

Is there a way to drybrush black with blues instead of greys? Want to finish up my deathwatch but don't want to take forever just on basic troops.

Is this obvious enough for an enginseer conversion?
Been working on this for the last few hours and pretty happy with it thus far

>>57329503
Apologies about the resolution, remembered to crop it at least

>>57329503
Oooh, I dig it. What'd you make the axe head out of?

>>57329537
Sicarian backpack with the crest from a vanguard alpha helmet, the mechanicus icon was a bastard to align

Ground out a bikelock for my first model this year, how's he look?

>>57329693
Pretty thick m8, either that or some fluff got stick while priming

>>57329693
Thin your paints.

>>57328981
Forge World

Are there any paint brands with non shit gold? I'm sick of GW's "unthinned = sludge, 1 droplet of water = glitter water" shit

WIP Death Guard Leviathan Dreadnought w/ 2x Siege claw & 2x Hellflamer

Comments and criticism ?

>>57330500
It's freakishly off in size and the defiler arm looks like it's going to break off. Paint scheme is different, but looks kind of crappy with the main thing being your off-white and brown and green splotches.

How do I thin my paints as thin as possible while still getting them to stick or not become a wash basically?

I thin them. They go on thin. But they don't adhere to the ridges and always pool.

What do?

>>57330558
I appreciate your criticism. I personally love the huge defiler arm, as it reminds me of my favorite animal, the fiddler crab. I understand the entire dread is insanely huge, but, its a "leviathan". You'd think it would be huge, right?

>>57330607
Use less paint on your brush. If anything pools you have enough paint on there it can flow around.
If you paint with thin paint it should basically be immediately dry. So you are probably overloading your brush.

>>57328949
Bumping this question

So basically I want to cut off this part of the taurox and have it flat and chuck and munitorum container on it and put some wheels on the munitorum container like a semi trailer.

Any thoughts? Would this work?

>>57330500
the paint looks sloppy as fuck, and not in a good nurgle way

What's a good Gold airbrush paint? I tried using vallejo Shiny Gold and the consistency left a lot to be desired.

Something akin to Retributor Armor would be nice, but I don't want to blast my guys with a rattlecan.

>>57330500
i don't dislike the paintjob, it's fine. they look gross as shit. the main issue i have is the two tone colors. you need to put some purple ooze or something on th ebases so that these things actually stand out. if you could go back in and put in some red details that would also help them to stand out. anything to break up the green/grey/brown.

>>57330777
Ah, fuck, i understand. Nice trips by the way. Jackpot!

Yeah, im shit at death guard paint schemes.

I like my demons mostly, desu.

>>57330839
Good call, do you think a brighter yellow would help? I dont like the purple necessarily, but abit of red i could see helping. Thanks for the response.

Only managed to paint 1 stormboi this week. Thankfully I realised I'm probably gonna stay collecting more AoS stuff and not get into 40k just yet. It would take me forever to paint an army

>>57330925
Look gorgeous. Love it.

Bases are uninspired though.

>>57327064

>"Excuse me sir, are you finding everything okay?"
>Oh yeah, thanks, I'm just pricing out a new fridge.
>"Anything in particular you're looking for?"
>Well, it's just that I don't have a lightbox so I figured it was time

>>57330989
Yea they're not done yet. I'll have time to visit the hobby store next week to get some stuff to make them prettier. Also I was thinking of getting astrogranite for the stormfuckers, to kinda contrast the bone/bronze thing they have going on.

Man, my desire to paint anything just died several months ago. At this rate I'll never be able to play a game of 40k. Hell my list was made back in 7th gen and have no idea how things have changed since then. I still have unassembled models in their boxes and a Cadre Fireblade that's been primed for at least 4 months at this point.

i couldnt fridge photo meme very well

>>57331251

>>57331371

>>57331251
This scibor abomination again. Nice hotsauce though.

IM FINNA PAAAINTTT ARRRGHHHHH

>>57327451
Yes, they usually have a number of Vallejo paints. However as another anon pointed out they are usually for historical model kits so most likely drab colors. Still a good start for your collection, go check em out.

>>57331951
fellas we gotta stop thinning

Well I smoothed the greenstuff as best I could and primed him to see how it would look. Gonna strip him and probably smooth him some more

>>57332240

Anyone have experience making a Battlesuit Commander interchangeable with the Coldstar Battlesuit?

>>57332240
Whys he so smooth?

>>57327354
How do you get the little drone-part hat to fit? I have an idea to do something similar with a character mini.

>>57330774
I think it would look kinda goofy with how high the body is from the ground, goliath truck might work better all together for the idea

>>57332314
He's a Mk IV marine I sanded the front off of, Gonna paint some heraldry on him and try to make his torso's edges more rigid

>>57327376
That's FANTASY soldier toys to you, chuckles.

>>57332611
Neat

>>57328951
The greenstufflooks too blobby against all that crisp-edged plastic, but I should have commented about that before you started painting. Love the colour transition on the whip and the creative direction you took with this army. I'm going to try taking a page from you when I do up some aggressors as EC Oblits.

>>57330500
You're playing Death guard and buying 8e models anon, your bits box should have been exploding with stuff that you could pile onto the thing.

Mainly the skin and a few small details left to do then my first couple are done

>>57332736
That thing is fucking sick, any ideas for an emperor's children one??

>>57328952
aliexpress

Working on a sergeant for a tactical squad - can I take both a combi-weapon AND a power fist?

>>57333247
yes, just like in every other edition
whether you should load up on bling is another question

>>57333247
Yeah. In general, ranged weapons can replace ranged weapons, melee weapons can replace melee weapons. As a Tactical Sergeant can take a Chainsword and a Bolt Pistol, he can generally swap them for a different melee weapon and ranged weapons respectively.

>>57332698
Trying to make him look like pic related

>>57327376
Bringing it back. Thank you, anon.

>>57331251
What is this??

>>57332857
I like them. Very bold and clean. What green is this for the armor?

>>57333774
mini from scibor

>>57333787
Huh, never seen that site before.

Mini looks nice, maybe a brighter bulb in that fridge tho

Took a while because I'm a slow asshole but I'm 99% done with this guy. Just need to highlight a fly symbol on one of the spitters but that's all I can think of.

Ideas to fancy up the bases of my custodes forces?

Right now I have my marines on grey urban bases, my necrons on red/orange desert bases, my eldar on greyish ruins, and my tyranids in brown muddy bases.

Are the Imperial Sector bases worth it at all?

>>57328616
>>57328902
>>57329034
Damn son, that's a table full of spacefairies.
Great colour picks - the RIPPED Guardian/Corsair looks sick.

>>57328852
Black, green or brown are the conventional colours, but that's not saying you should change it - grey looks fine.

>>57329390
... Use blues?
Of course you can do that.
Start dark so it doesn't look too stark though.

>>57329503
>>57329554
Looks good, but I hope he's painted distinctly from your standard Skeeters, because he's not quite as imposing as the big blocky versions.

>>57330500
>>57330839
>>57330887
I really like the colours and paintjob, but the Anon calling for some spot/accent colours is absolutely right.
Doesn't even have to be big, just a few details distributed roughly evenly around the models to lift out some of the detail.

Overall looks gross though, good job.

>>57332947
Any chance to repost it. Though it fits more for slaanesh in general. The driver is from the witch aelves kit with a leg repositioned and the face is from the deer riding ones. At some point I will paint it.

>>57332736
Is this some kind of GS/Sculpey or Milliput mix? How do you get hard edges and the putty to sand down like this?

Tried to use some inks to get a colour more fitting for alpha legion with the colourshift paints. This is 5:1:1 Storm Surge Green : Blue ink : Green ink on the lower leg. Inks are from Vallejo. When you mix them you get a metallic turquoise which is fine to paint with, but you have to mix it regularly or the metallics drop to the bottom (?) and you end up with only ink on your brush. Happened with the upper leg where I tried using only blue ink. Not sure what would happen in an Airbrush. Hope that helped you anon, your turquoise ink will probably work fine.

>>57333808
Also couldn't get a good just the back shot so did two kinda side shots of behind for the necrosis. Overall I think it went alright but I could do better.

>>57330607
>>57330627
Properly loading my brush is something I'm still not doing right, but starting to consciously work on keeping minimal amounts of paint and layering in painstakingly small amounts has really helped me get smooth colours and all around better-looking models.
Fucking long though.

>>57330925
>astrogranite
Just get some sand and PVA, what the shit.
Gorgeous Stormcast though.

>>57331230
Put some podcasts on and just do it.
Basecoats on something as armoured as a Fireblade is mindless work, and as soon as you get past the primed stage you'll see more of a model, and it will be easier to get down to painting it.
Next time you're at a loose end, just put on some Netflix or podcasts or anything you can listen to, and roughly basecoat some shit.

>>57333801
>>57331005
>>57327038
>TFW model critique thread turns into kitchen appliance critique thread.

>>57334026
>>57333808

>>57333960
That looks siiiiiiiiick.
As much as I generally think 40k looks silly on the table with all the giant toys, big characterful dreads usually look good.

>>57334025
Quite a nice effect, but the metallicy colour-shift paints just don't do it for me on models.
Those gemstone Shadespire Stormcast some anon did look good, but coloured metallic armour doesn't sit right with me.

>>57333808
>99%
I'd say 98%, you should base too anon.

>>57334025
And I told some Anon I would have a fully painted model up at the end of the weekend, I did not, because reasons. What was supposed to be a really pale pink on the branch turned into this, after I messed up once, and fixing only made things worse. My lack of motivation to finish that part is visible. The only colourshift on the model so far is straight burning gold in several layers. I mentioned before that the paints will pool, and it did as I was still too much into applying the glossy ink for it's background colour. Not sure how I'll do the parts currently left gloss black. I'm phone posting so I don't have the link to the old threads with the colour tests, check the archive or the instagram in the filename.

>>57334068
Thanks on the dread and for the colourshift metallics. They clearly shouldn't be the only thing on the model and there are certain areas they look better on then other. Rounded surfaces work fine, flat parts, not so much. When this model is done I'll have some normal gold and silver on it as well, for a bit of a comparison.

>>57331251
>y quest to finally finish building every kit I own last week
>>a decade of collecting spare kits for conversion projects or as accessories to box sets I only need 3/4ths of
>>a decade of trying to build an army big enough to field only conventional scale units in an Apoc game as if it was Epic
>>once everything is built I will paint it all to completion, rather than smattering of halfsies

The cock sauce doesn't need to be in the fridge. Its vinegar based.

>>57334188
Oops shit yeah I'm gonna get on that. I have an okay base setup I do for the death guard guys. I just need to get a couple more relatively completed cuz my backlog is gargantuan.

primed and ready

reposting from yesterday
>>57264603
>>57264775
give me the motivation to finish them (8 years in the making)

>>57334431
>IW Johnny soon
Fuck, I can't wait.
I wonder when all the ones from the SS are going to be painted. I saw like 3 or 4.

>>57334526
sorry anon, but im gonna have to disappoint you now rather than later
but for sure im going to make an IW version at some point

>>57334597
>raptors johnny
Still good with me.

Which gold do you like ?

>>57334770
Terminators look too dark and boring.
Front middle looks too gaudy.
The other two look pretty nice, especially the one on the right.
IMO Cusstoads look better tho when not painted gold desu

>>57328951
>chaos primaris

>>57328852
i thought its just unpainted plastic grey. Nevermind then.

>>57329255
Yes, only high quality GW paint makes you paint well.

Finished my first Leman Russ. Has anybody else here added custom parts to their tanks?

Does anyone know what range this miniature is from?

>>57334929
Anything GW paints gold looks better in silver.

Been trying to make a custom Abaddon since the current model is old enough to go drinking with.

I inversed the gauntlet and sword hand because I've always seen Horus and Abaddon as messengers, rather like Gabriel, and Drach'nyen in the right better symbolises wrath.

Used the t-visor helm for some sweet Archaon vibes because fuck that ridiculous topknot, and a grey knights bolter on the talon. Drach'nyen is currently a Grey Knights Termie sword, just need to exacto away the battery and cable.

Any thoughts beyond that on how to make the sword look more hellish beyond a molten paintjob?

>>57335175
Proportions look Confrontationish to me, or maybe Helldorado?

>>57335175
>>57335221
Where do you even find catalogues for them these days?

I've googled Confrontation and come up with Rackham, is that what you meant? And who even makes Hell Dorado?

>>57335196
Get him a different sword. You could even use a Bloodletter sword or something, but anything that looks really corrupted or demonic. Not just some boring ass normal sword.
Its fucking abbadon, after all.

Guys, I've recently got my hands on pic related, but I have a bit of a problem: it kills the shine of any metal color.
How do I fix it? am I supposed to use 'Ardcoat on any metallic or do I paint the metal parts after?
I've already tried putting the 'Ardcoat after, but the effect isn't the same

>>57335175
>>57335221
Found it. It's called Dark Vlad the Human Hunter from Enigma

>>57335249
Confrontation was made by Rackham, yeah. Keyword was, because it died over a decade ago. There are some smaller companies, I think french, that still produce some of the stuff. CMON used to have it, but I think they sold it to those frenchies. There's also a Confrontation revival coming. The recasts are made by these guys I think: https://cadwallon.com/

As for Hell Dorado. This one's also been shambling along for a few years and finally died two years ago, even cancelling a funded Kickstarter and all. Your best bet is ebay in that case.

If you are lucky the piece is from some other line or boutique manifacturer. I really don't know, the small feet and hands just reminded me of some pieces in those lines.

>>57335334
Well then. Sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase.

>>57335359
>>57335366
That's alright! Got there in the end. I'm currently going through my inspirations folder trying to find the makers and some prove pretty hard. Like pic related, i think this one might be custom sculpted

How do I git gud at highlighting?

>>57335403
GIS says Black Crow miniatures, currently closed until January

>>57335455
So it is. Shame it's not in scale, ah well! Thanks for helping out though. Much appreciated

>>57335331
you got three kinds of varnish.
Gloss, matte and satin. Satin sits somewhere inbetween and is the finish the paints dry naturally.
Back in ye olden days the studio minis were unvarnished, while most gaming pieces the players had were glossy. The unvarnished 'eavy metal showcases basically started the trend of matt and satin varnish.

So this is a trivia riddled and longwinded way of saying maybe you should try satin varnish.
But honestly I don't think you will get the exact same effect you had before varnishing no matter what you use. So you'll have to settle for something that looks good as well, albeit not exactly the same.

>>57335476
I don't even know what scale their stuff is. If he's a little bigger he might make a great Nagash though.

>>57334215
Cool conversion but the pose and painting is a bit meh

>>57335449
>do something
>get feedback on specifics
>incorporate useful feedback into your next attempts
Learning to take feedback is an important skill as well btw. You have to filter if the advice you are getting is actually aligned with the specifics of what you want to achieve.

But generally: post your stuff and get some second opinions.

>still haven't heard anything about the big bag of stuff that I sent to some anon in England for Secret Santa
I check the gallery every day. I sent Inquisitor bits, Swedish chocolate and candy, 40K figs and bits.

>>57335502
seems like they vary from mini to mini. He is only 90mm so it would actually work pretty well now that i think about it.

>>57335506
I'm aware of the awkward pose, but couldn't really get a better one after the gs set. The painting isn't done yet, only the branch, which I might go over again, and the skin. Main point of that webm is showing the colourshift paint next to some normal ones for now. The camera settings that bring out it's effect more turned out to be not that great for the normal colours.

>Forgot camera at parent's house while visting over the holidays to snap family pictures
>Won't go back for a month
How the fuck am I supposed to make macro pictures with a cellphone cam?

>>57335736
why don't you call your parents and tell them they should send it to you asap?

i think im gonna go back and tidy up some of the highlights, but its pretty close

Is the Chaos Rhino box contents the same as the Imperial Rhino? Just with a chaos upgrade sprue?

>>57335815
yup

>>57335765
I don't trust our postal service to handle an expensive camera and since they live at the ass-end of nowhere, there's no parcel service available either.
But since I don't have much of a choice, I might gamble on the postal service. Wish me luck.

started with 40 k in october
i had no idea how hard it is to write with a brush
tried 5 times and gave up

>>57335848
get some micron pens for EZ script and text

>>57335814
>mfw i've gotten used to the flood of Deathguard models
>It took me a few moments before i realised it was a normal green marine for once

>>57335521
I feel for you anon, but trusting postnord with a package is on the same level as tossing it out your window and wishing really hard that it reaches its destination

>>57335521

Which Anon in the UK?

The one I sent out has been received, so I'm content, but I've had nothing in return (a minor quibble... I already have far too much stuff :P).

>>57335848
This >>57335870
I know theyre freaky expensive pens but they do the emperors work anon

What's the best spray to prime your models with? I used to use Chaos Black, but I find it too dark nowadays that my eyesight isn't as good - a gray colour would be ideal!

>>57336108
Citadel Rattle Cans are NOT primer. It is Very important that this is known. You have to prime a mini first before you spray it.

>>57335987
I know, that's what I'm dreading.
>>57336027
A lad who lives in Staffordshire.

>>57336087
>>57335870
Is there any kind of risk applying the brush-on varnish on them?

>>57336122

>>57336122
hahaha what

>>57336108
I use Army Painter Uniform Grey primer and frankly, it's fantastic. I switched from black to grey and I'll never go back.

>>57336144
ive never had an issue brushing on ardcoat on top, seems to work great

>>57336122
>tfw too intelligent to prime your models using primer spray paints

>>57336145
"acts as a primer" is not equal with "it is a primer".

A good primer does more than just being an undercoat.

Of course, regular spraypaint can be enough for plastic miniatures, but for metal and resin i wouldn't rely on it.

>>57336311
Forgive the noobish question, but what other characteristics other than being an undercoat does a primer have? It's supposed to be a coat of paint that binds with the underlying material in order to make painting it easier, correct?

>>57336354
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_(paint)

>A primer consists of 20%-30% synthetic resin
>Some primer contains polyethylene (plastic), for better durability.

>>57336127
Not me then. Think I may have pulled a short straw and got a Redditor.

>>57336122
This guy is woke af

>>57336108
If you're in the UK halfords grey primer is great and much cheaper than citadel for what you get
>>57336122
Why are people acting like what this guy said is wrong? I thought it was common knowledge that citadel sprays aren't really primer

>>57334495
well, they're nice. Why not finish when you can do them nice and gritty? They'd look best photographed on a decently painted gritty board

>>57336204
>>57336925
Nice, thank you for the tip!
A friend suggested Rustoleum. Which one is best, and why? I intend to use it for resin, plastic and metal figures.

>>57335331
yes

>>57336967
Heard rustoleum painter's touch is good but not used it myself so can't give an accurate comparison to halfords.
Never had any issues with plastic or metal models, can't say for resin but have no reason to think it wouldn't work
Pic and >>57329503 are metal and plastic models respectively I've used halfords grey primer with

>>57336940
thanks. Next I'll finish the purity seals, do silver highlights/black ink wash on the eagles, and varnish them. After that I'll put Vostroyan decals and finally do more weathering washes

Back when I wanted to start Beastmen. This is as far as I got lol

So I suck at painting, but i still love you papa nurgle

>>57337840
Looks like you should use washes.

>>57333787
>scibor

so this is where custards come from

>>57337840
Wash, base, it won't be good but it'll do.

>>57337960
GW in charge of ideas

>>57337840
Damn son, you need to watch some Duncan

All I need to do is get some water and get my pallet out and I can paint.

Why can't I do it?
I've been procrastinating the last week
WHERES MY WILL GONE TO

>>57338273
please tell us what are you working on currently

>>57338296
I'm trying to finish up my Cadian shock trooper Force, but I haven't painted in a year.
I got motovation again, but I can't bring myself to actually paint and field this army.

>>57338319
How many minis? I'm >>57334495 so I can actually relate

>>57328616
I love it so much

>>57338338
The entire set. It's all primed and ready to go. I just can't bring myself to actually start patining.
I painted 5 of the troopers from this $10 so I know how to paint, I just need the will TO paint.

>>57328400
For the love of God get some new Chainaxes please. The old ones are way too goofy now, especially with the huge wrist attached.

How'd I do guys

>>57334025
That looks great Anon, I'll definitely give it a go.
Thank you for making the effort.

I accidentally made my Deathwatch guy blue.

Whoops.

>>57338097
I practice but I don’t get any better

Working on a post-apocalyptic giantess from Bad Squiddo Games. Yes, I know the face is a mess and the leather is way too flat, I'm mainly just getting the basic colors done at this stage.

>>57338765
Mutant butt cheeks.

>>57338732
Thin your paints please

>>57338732
Seriously, follow Duncan's advice. Do exactly what he does and with some patience you'll have some nice models

>>57338765
>>57338773
8/10 mini would ride bitch with

>>57338732
some people are not cut out for art. it is quite possible that you have some kind of limit on communication between your visual centres and your problem-solving centres.

it is possible to have excellent general intelligence and be completely tone-deaf. you would appear to be artistically tone-deaf. my condolences.

>>57338732
Do you apply two thin coats of paint? Did you take your time being neat at that stage, avoiding to spill onto the other colours? Did you twist your brush to make a fine tip just like that? Did you use a pallette to control how much paint is on your brush, making sure not to overload it? Did you wash it with agrax earthshade, letting it dry for half an hour and making sure the wash doesn't pool towards the bottom of your miniature?

call me duncan no homo

I want to get some Dragoons for my Feudal style Mechanicum army. Thought replacing them with cavalry would be fun but I'm kinda split on what type of horse to put under my skitarii rider. Been looking at DKoK rider, that malifaux plastic mechanical rider, or the mech-horse from that wild west exodus thing.

Thoughts?

>>57337077
I've used painters touch, and in my experience it's way thicker than GW or Army Painter's sprays, which are more... dusty I guess. Painter's Touch seemed to turbofuck smaller details, especially on basic infantry models. I'd personally recommend sticking with a model primer, it's worth the money.

>>57338732

>Use a wet palette
>Thin your paints
>Use washes
>Be patient when painting
>Learn the steps to painting minis, generally its prime,basecoat, wash, highlight nothing is ready in one step or one coat, ever.
>Don't skip steps or rush them, ever. Pay attention to every one of them.
>You should always do coats so thin that basecoating requires at least two coats before covering
>Watch Duncans tutorials
>Be patient when painting. Can't stress this enough

Now go and strip your minis and try again. You will improve.

>>57338948
Thanks, dude. I painted her mohawk green on purpose to make her look less like him, but yeah, the influence is obvious.

>>57339033
I'd go with the Malifaux one. THe other is too overdesigned and I think it wouldn't mesh very well with the rest of the army.

>>57330774
Brings this to my mind...

I'm really happy with how these guys are turning out so far. Just an edge highlight and some more work on he bases and they should be good to go!

(if my phone uploads this shot sideways, my apologies, it's been uploading my camera pictures the wrong way round recently and I can't figure out why)

>>57335159
Where'd that thing on the barrel come from?

>>57337620
i ordered a doombull yesterday, want to try and make Zogfa Brainz, the biggest, strongest, dumbest ork

>>57338773
its always good when someone remembers to thin their pants

>>57339191
I agree. My thoughts were basically Wild West = overdesigned and clunky looking, Malifaux = perhaps too clean and slender, and dkok = too obviously Krieg(very ww1 and not so much feudal like i was going for).

I suppose the latter two options can be made to work fine with some thematic bits slapped on. I could put some mechanicum style wiring on parts of the malifaux one and dirty it up in the painting process and that would probably do fine.

>>57339310
>I suppose the latter two options can be made to work fine with some thematic bits slapped on.
Exactly. Slap a few skulls and purity seals on it and it'll look like something right out of a John Blanche illustration.

>>57339264
It's the front part of a Freestyle Bazooka from Frame Arms

>>57335159
how he do da cannon?

>>57339382
Thanks mate, it looks pretty fucking cool.

>>57328421
>>57328400
Just make sure to drill the barrels

>>57335159

>>57328709
Cool conversion work, but the rakarth flesh seems a bit thick, and the shade is too messy.

>>57339362
I will do this. Thank you for the help. Now my only future worry will be if my friends think it's too short to count as a dragoon. I've not known them to be sticklers about that but if push comes to shove i can put them on some ridiculous scenic base that makes them taller.

>>57338403
Only the axe is old. That's a new chaos raptor hand and arm. I just cut up an old chainaxe and replaced the raptor's chainsword. Most of my other guys have HH chainaxes. They're ok I guess, when you don't have any others spare.

>>57339413
Aye, bases, drill and decals are always last for me

>>57339450
This. The gap is triggering my autism.

>>57334026
>>57334042
IMO the bruising around the infected areas is a little too blue. But that's just me. Other than that, I think it looks awesome. But as the other anon said, you aren't 99%, you're 98%. Unless you just don't base any of your army.

>>57334495
>>57336940
>They'd look best photographed on a decently painted gritty board
By god man, you're right.
Look marvelous on a little scenic display board that could be whipped up in less than three months, I'd say.

>>57339033
>>57339191
>>57339310
>Squad of Dragoons riding the Mechanical Rider
Son, those are going to be some very expensive horsemans.

>>57339450
Drape a flag over it?

>>57339817
>>57334026
>>57334042
>the bruising around the infected areas is a little too blue.
If it reads properly from table distance, I'd leave it.
If it still looks like a surprisingly blue patch of skin, I'd agree that maybe it could be given a thin layer of a flesh tone to bring it back a bit.

>>57339825
10 bucks for pilot and 40 bucks for the malifaux kit. Give or take 10 bucks that’s about the same as a regular dragoon.

>>57337620
Fuck, dude. When I played Beastmen I had my FLGS order one of those for me. She accidentally ordered 2 and gave me the second for free since I was a very frequent customer and would more than make up her loss. Gave my 2nd one away as part of a trade, and recently sold my other one that I had sitting primed for forever, thinking I would never actually paint it.

Now I'm about to start DMing again for a new group and realize that my BeastMen horde would be tits for the scenes in the woods outside the town. Went searching for my Doombull and realized he was gone.

Your post just made me start wanting another. Pic related.

>>57339961
>Give or take eighty bucks, barely a difference
Mad lad.
Will look flipping great though.
Only problem is only one pose for the horse, may need a lot of chopping and bending.

>>57338732
Watch this guy:
https://m.youtube.com/user/paintingbuddha

>>57339961
The malifaux horse is pretty 2D so should be easy to presscast. Get yourself some Procreate and you are golden.
Alternatively learning how to make proper rubber molds and casting it with resin would be more than worth the effort, for the price of two riders you get everything you need to completely fuck up while learning. Two more and you have the material and experience to cast at least a dozen horses.

>>57340251
https://www.miniaturemarket.com/wyr20324.html
I can get the horse for 28 buckaroons here and get the bits for the rider for 10 dorrar on any bits website. Whatchu talkin bout $80 Willis?

But yeah the converting will likely be a pain in the ass but I’ll figure it out. Here’s of my Nazghul cawl that I’ve been working on. I ripped off another build I saw online for most of it.

>>57340359
Fantastic idea. I’ve always wanted to try my own casting.

>>57340157
Hey Anon, I'm still feeling the holiday spirit. Care for a gift?

>>57339382
>he bought a FAG just to cannibalize it for parts
The actual madman, aren't they expensive?

>>57340415
Seize the means of production, anon!

>>57340434
Dear Lord. Email is in name if you're serious. I'll even trade you something if you're looking for a model I might have. (I have quite a few random things)

>>57340550
>[email protected]
sent

>>57340444
Theyre kinda expensive but I never used the bazooka from the Gourai kit, so I put it on the Russ. I've got a huge Kotobukiya M.S.G order on the way so I can put more stuff on my next Leman Russ and motorize the Vulcan Mega Bolter on my Stormlord.

You guys should really check this stuff out, it's just the right size for 40k vehicles. http://slist.amiami com/top/search/list?s_seriestitle_id=101&pagemax=40

>>57340444
The weapons are like five, ten bucks a pop and there's a ton of them. They're meant to be used with Koto's line of robot kits, but they scale well with Master Grade Gundams. Some of them might need some gubbins pasted on to look right on a miniature tho.

>>57340646
Got the Email, currently on my way to work but I'll reply when I get off and have a few minutes to send you a list of things.

>>57339455
This photo was taken while the rakarth was still very wet, it's sunk in quite a ways now that it's actually dried, as for the recess shade I did say I still had to clean up my mistakes.

>>57339817
>>57339882
Thanks lads! I'll check out the skin to see how it looks when I get home and get to work properly basing it.

>went to the local GW to buy a pot of alaitoc blue and a pot of altorf blue
>managed to buy two puts of altorf blue

FUCK

>>57340934
Ive honestly bought the wrong paints a couple of times because I didn't look hard enough

>>57339825
>Drape a flag over it?

Or any cloth cowl, really.

>>57341025
>>57339825
Not than anon, but how do you drape a flag over a tank? Do you need to get a specific material/premade or just be a legendary greenstuff-smith.

>>57333960
greenstuffed all the edges. I really need to start doing this

>>57339450
Could do the gauze mesh "camo netting" thing.

>>57341628
Or you can build them the right way and gently dry weld the seams

>>57327354
It's sideways

>>57340755
This.

As a matter of fact, I bought that specific missile launcher to make some missile sentinels.

Can you scrape off mold lines after priming a model? I tried to be really careful, but I missed a pair of moldlines for a model I've finally primed. I want to sit down and paint it, but those moldlines bother me enough I want to get rid of them.

Can a soak in simple green really remove all the paint and primer off a model? How does such a nasty chemical not fuck with the actual plastic/glue of the miniature?

I've never stripped anything before, I'm just a concerned parent for my badly painted models.

>>57337840
>>57338732
thin your paints!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>57337840
Want some advice for easy marines? Paint them gold and silver (and bone and flesh), dip them in aggrax earth shade, and then apply the green after that.

>>57341958
At least in my experience, simple green isn't strong enough to just remove all the paint and primer. You have to carefully scrub the painted areas with an old toothbrush to really remove the paint.

I assure you it does not harm plastic at all - I've literally left models soaking for far too long, months, and they've been fine. Glue might suffer a little damage, but it would take using a little force to actually break its bond.

>>57341994
It's what I did for my fantasy warriors, at least. I did all the 'detail colors', like leathers, silvers, golds, and then dipped them. Then applied the base color (red, and highlights and shit) afterwards and then went back over the dipped colors to make them cleaner.

Also, it's been like 5 years since I did a GW army, thinking about making a Night Lords chaos space marines, with some khorne and nurgle dudes mixed in for the sake of doing them. Where can you find good night lord bits?

>>57339589
model a penis and put it into his hand. please!

>>57342224

>>57341445
Wasn't toilet paper with diluted vinylic glue the solution to such problems?

>>57342305
Yeah that chalice was way too big, but it was the only cup I had on hand at the time. I loved that model though, I'll definitely want to pick one up again if I do Chaos Space Marines. It'll actually keep it's plasma blaster too.

>>57335814
I always liked this painterly kind of style, nice

>>57341935
I do it fairly regularly. Haven’t run into any issues. If it was a really large area you could always brush prime with Vallejo afterwards

anybody painted any Veer-Myn models? thoughts on them?

also I was planning on making some terrain out of old orange pill bottles, how do I suspend things so they look like they're floating in liquid?

Converting this to be a hellforged leviathan, opinions?

I want to get those easy to build dudes and make them into obliterators. How shit of an idea is that?

>>57343291
Could maybe use a spiked halo on top and more wires. An easy way to get 40kish cables is to twist two wires together, clamp them with an electric drill and twist them together.
I'd also add an icon or two and maybe some runic engravings you filthy fucking heretic

>>57343794
India/10

>>57343794
>How shit of an idea is that?
very low

Made this deff dread of some spare parts looks like shit kek

>>57344235
it's cute

Just starting a Catachan army and i'm just wondering if the standard infantry models are as bad as they look on website. If they are could they be salvaged with 3rd party arms and heads?

>>57344429
I'd go around and spend a fortune on OOP metal ones if I had to start now, and i say that having an army that's half old metal and half plastic, all bought when they were new. I'm especially fond of the old sergeant with laspistol that sadly I never found around. I'd get that and the old stormtroopers with melta and grenade launcher to complete my collection. I also prefer old cadians.

Metal IG in general is pretty great.

Anyone have much experience in totally dry-brushing smaller (ie. infantry) models? It seems like not overlapping areas would be very difficulty but I wonder if it’s possible with a small enough brush/enough control.

>>57344429

>>57344481 here, to answer your question about third party, anvil has bits that you can put together to have jungle fighters. Victoria should have some too IIRC but they end up costing more than anvil and give you less options.

>>57344429
These plastics are almost 20 years old by now.. so yes, they are as dated as they look.
If you spend the money on 3rd party bits they can look quite nice, but you could also use the money and get the metal ones like >>57344481 said.

>>57344541
>These plastics are almost 20 years old by now
damn i still remember when they were released, think ive still got that months white dwarf as well somehwere

>>57344481
>>57344516
>>57344541
Thanks for the help lads. I've been eyeing up the bits on Anvil because they seem quite nice. I'll probably through in a few metal ones too if i can find some.

>>57344489
Depends on the amount of detail on the minis, you can have good enough results if you have to put out a lot of necrons/nids/fire warriors/marines (or even IG depending on the minis involved). You drybrush fatigues and armor, then if you did a good job you'll need a little amount of covering up mistakes and using a smaller brush for the smaller details that make the minis stand out.

I don't like doing it but I have a massive backlog and I can't paint every guardsman like it was a skirmish game.

>>57344597
i really can't understand why GW discontinued so many awesome plastic kits and keeps them (as well as some ork vehicles and the berserkers) in their range for so long.

>>57344632
I find berserkers to not be that bad desu. I'd kill to get more dynamic poses on warp spiders though.

>>57344632
molds for plastic minis are expensive but keep for forever because they are metal. resin and metal molds are made out of soft material and can break down over time.

that's my guess at least.

First time working with resin. It's going... Interestingly.

>>57344667
>but keep for forever because they are metal.

They need almost constant maintenance to keep details sharp etc. But you don't have to re-make them from time to time like the others.

But for example they discontinued the entire breton range and also the khemris for example as well as several of the scenery kits which all were newer than the mentioned sets they keep selling.

>>57340359
>>57340415
Casting something as detailed as that, flat or not, as your first project seems like an ambitious move...

>>57340400
Looks good hunched forward.
I know it's supposed to look inhuman, but the standard Cawl doesn't look good to me.

>>57341935
>>57343208
If it's not a horrendously detailed model, I usually do a very light prime white to highlight the seams and then scrape the whole thing clean in a minute.
If it's something fine though, you're just there for an hour with a scalpel and a desk lamp.

>>57341445
>>57342366
This is a good shout.


>>57340434
>>57340550
/wip/ best thread confirmed

A friend Morkanaught I worked on for him need to do lights and base still.

He wanted a Mario themed ork army to upset some people

>>57344721
Please, are you the guy that made the peach and walanagash on FB? I fucking loved that entire army, show more pics.

Working on my first squad of guys, some tempestus scions. Wanted to give 2/5 Melta guns but it looks like the sprue only comes with one each. Is there any place to pick up spare bits, or am I doomed to purchase more scions?

>>57344715
that's a good point, i hadn't considered that.

i'm guessing the canceling of tomb kings and bretonnians was a call from on high, then, and was without regard for sculpt age.

if they ever upgrade the IG infantry line, i wonder if GW will end up doing new IG like space marines; have a generic kit and sell upgrade packs. would help phase out the old sculpts while still introducing new material.

>>57327671
>basically all paint used for minatures is acrylic..
True however the pigment quality and density of "artists" acrylic (for painting pictures) is much lower than miniature paints.

>>57344762
ebay has bits sellers. i've used almost all of them with great success.

>>57343284
Use dental floss to attach small float disguised as Servo Skull to neck of humanoid figure. Attach small chains from ankles of humanoid to floor of bottle.
Put in water with a drop or two of ink in for translucency.

>>57343794
What would you do to them?

>>57344235
Make it Snakebite.
They aren't much for the high tech anyway.

>>57344754

O.o nope but now i'm curious.

>>57344811
Replace heads, do pic related with their arms and replace the flamers with gun soup like normal obliterators.
Throw in muscly mutations on their legs especially in the back and cut the fuel pipes.
I'd add some spikes on their backs too, to make it similiar to behemoths in fallout and the spike cages they wear on their backs.

>>57334770
could you plese retake the photo with less Shakey hands? my eyes hurt now,

>>57344786
Outside of stuff like valhallans and DKOK/steel legion sharing a kit I don't see how you could have them in a common range. They would probably restyle cadians and use them as the base but it still would give problems because every famous regiment has a pretty unique aesthetic.

>>57344625
Unfortunately I’m doing Mechanicus, but the amount of rounded parts makes me want to dry-highlight the metal. That and I’m frankly not good at edge highlighting, and I like the more natural look of dry brushing.

>>57344632
same reason why FW discontinued chaos dreadnoughts including sonic dreads. Pure retardation.

>>57338087
>>57337960
yeah it has nothing to do with THESE that Forgeworld had for ages.

>>57344917
You can have a good result for tabletop quality with the capes and metal bits, just have it look natural instead of the strokes showing, drybrush on several layers and use details to add contrast. Washes could help I suppose, I still use the old inks so I can't say.

>>57339053
Not anon in question, but looking to repaint. How does one go about stripping paints? Tried nail polish remover and toothbrush, but it didn't go as well as I'd hoped.

>>57344235
Front and size

>>57345097
>there's something I'm supposed to be doing with the gun in my left hand but I can't be sure what it is

Any suggestions on how to make this copper a gold? I know im not the best painter, and that I need to neaten highlights up but im out of nagaroth night. I aplogize for the messy lines, i've got dysgraphea.

>>57345428
>post it
>realize I forgot to paint the other smokestack.

I've finnaly done it. I finished every model in the Silver Tower Boxed set. I am super slow at painting and am quite happy i actually achieved something with my painting. I've never been able to finish an army when i was younger so i am glad as an adult coming back to it i could finish something.

I do still need to paint bases for them all now. I probably should have done that as i went but oh well.

>>57345474
You can't just say something like that and not give us pictures of your achievement

>>57345468
>take picture
>realize why there's a fully-painted Rhino exhaust in my bitzbox.

Anyone have any tips for keeping a steady hand?

I want to give at least the champions and leader of my gang a spiderweb pattern on their clothes but I'm worried my hands would get too shaky to keep it neat.

>>57344717
>standard Cawl doesn't look good to me.
Cawl is ridiculously busy. Problem is when you clean him up (usually by removing bits of his model) his pose makes him start looking like trogdor.

>>57346077
it might be a little late to do it, but if you stretch metal wool into the pattern you want on the fabric (that is the color you want the webs to be) you can paint thinly over it and make webbing that way.

>>57334770
Custodes anon are you still here?
Wanna make a imgur album with your golden boys and how each was painted, I've been looking at different golds for awhile.

>>57327376

>>57346077
Diazepam either through a doctor or the deepweb

>>57343291
Greenstuff some flesh onto the joints and mechanical bits it like the Hell brute. Needs more spikes too. Maybe replace the ends of the fingers with claws/nails if you can?

>>57346077
>brace wrists against table edge
>press a finger of one hand against the other to stabilize
Now both your hands move the same if the move.

>>57335159
what did you do for the machine gun in the commander's chair

Fridge pictures?

Decided to go with a red tabard seeing as white looked so bland, glad I did. However now I am wondering what to do with the blank space on the lower half. Either leave it be or fill it with a Lamenter symbol... so a gold heart (or white) or another colour. still need to highlight the gold trim and checkers then I should be ready to move onto the arms.

Helmet still looks like shit tho.

>>57348438
could also do a border of blood drops or some other kind of decorative embroidery.
Don't think you really need to put something down there though. Maybe you'll get a better idea once you can see it all in context.

Gloss or normal reikland fleshshade /wip/?

>>57348438
That supposed to be Malakim Phoros?

>>57348539
I considered that but it may be more hard work than it's worth seeing as it would need to go where the robe folds in to the right. I am considering to keep it just bare... or slap a purity seal or two on it after since I realized I don't have any on this mini.

>>57348659
Yeah, him in primaris armor is silly, I know but I really loved the pose of the Primaris Apothecary.

>>57348767
I think the Primaris models look better too. If FW doesn’t come out with a model of him soon I may convert a Primaris version.

Old gaunts v new gaunts
How do they look

Still needs edge highlights, some work on basing, and am probably going to redo the flames, but thoughts?

>>57348876
new look good nigga

>>57349029
View from the back