Work in Progress, "We’re the rats" Edition

>Full-on /WIP/ OP Links Pastebin
https://pastebin.com/BE42AEcD

>WIP Tutorial Images Mega
https://mega.nz/#F!TvQFCaLb!w8WZKCcOsTRasxrI0JWezw

>Saint Duncan's "Six Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Painting"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufP8ka3KGno

>Saint Duncan also explains thinning your paints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWgsqSf74s

>Paint thinning 102
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBDVPoNXyVI

>4 EASY Chipping Tricks For Beginners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku4comhKHJM

>Decal Like a Pro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYKLiEW7p9c

>How to Edge Highlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoRbYuAfbEk

>How to use contrast style paints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhholrozptI

>How to Paint with Tremors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqp76vAJu9g

>Airbrush Priming and Thinning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkntrSBvXxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGjBQzoukFg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00JVUxABe44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqT_R41JX8

>Who's Johnny, she'd say, and smile in her special way
https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Johnny

Previous threads:
>>95846865
>>95823089
>>95802784
>>95781824

>>95868646 (OP)
Finished another pano guy from sandtrap, first time doing airbrush osl. Be honest, did i overdid it? Can't tell

>>95868699
Nice!

>>95868699
For me, it looks good, not really overblown at all. Keep going.

>>95868699
I think it's just right. I think the light sources themselves would benefit from a brighter spot in the middle though

Maybe it's stupid question but - would white spirit dissolve acrylic paints? I was wondering if I could use gouache varnish I have instead of water based but it's thinned with white spirit.

>>95869258
Generally speaking, it should not. White spirit does not react with acrylics. However, if you completely flood the model with it and/or you are very (very!) rough with your cleanup, it might get under the acrylic paint and then it's all ogre.
In 99% of cases, you are safe. However, if you are using AP paints, you definitely need to varnish, because a lot of AP paints are some kind of garbage bin tier acrylics that get stripped down by white spirit.

>>95869312
From AP I only use their washes. So I guess I should apply some other varnish, at least initially?

>>95869340
Acrylic varnish is enough.

To the anon who told me to us AP quick paint to handle the zenithal undercoat, thanks, it worked out well.
I hope it still looks like the light comes from under the statue.
Also I dropped the mini, and since its 3d printed resin, All Might's antennae hair broke off. Which is actually for the best, since now it looks even more like the Leman Russ/Emperor statue I wanted it to be in the first place.

>>95868410
Two ways. Do you want the stripes to be the focus or to be accent patterns? If you want it to be the focus then decide on what your main viewing angle will be then orient the stripes to look the best from that angle. If not the focus then whatever angle fits best within the space that you are going to paint the hazard stripes in.

Well bros after trying both I'm not seeing any difference between AK white and Vallejo white, they might as well be the exact same recipe. Still better than Corax of course

>>95868699
cool shit but I think the only thing you botched are the four eyes in the front. Those need to be consistent, and I feel they're too lopsided for my tastes. It could be how you photographed it as well, but he looks like he's... squinting.

All else looks really good.

Building some models to reduce my pile of sprues/reinforce my pile of grey when i realised that my snob (low right) that I was planning on adding an octopus head to already has half of one integrated into the model.
>time to re-plan the entire conversion i suppose.

>>95870346
I liked the turtle shell guy
Reminds me of the Dark Souls 3 pilgrims

>>95783331
Cute dragon! Love that classic color scheme.

Some more veggies I'm working on, I'm trying to think of a way to make a tilled field with vegetables growing out of it, any suggestions?

>>95870346
I painted a big tarasque like 6 months ago. I found it harder than painting small minis.

>>95868699
Pretty slick, anon!

I had to use some putty to repose the sword hand but it worked out

>>95870418
Yeah, I realised that it looked kinda sorta like picrel so i am making a conversion

>>95871431
Qsy is doing some art for TC, are they online yet?

I just cracked open some basing cork I bought a while back to use as rocks, but they don't look right to me. Do these little pieces read as rocks to you? What else could I use them as if not little rocks?

>>95871532
They'll look like rocks once you paint them, don't worry.

>>95871532
they look like fresh rubble but not weathered rocks

>>95871560
This is what I was thinking. They might look good on an urban base, but I'm probably going to to go with more of a muddy wasteland. I was going to do desert, but I have no dead looking grass tufts to add.

>>95871600
the difference between fresh rubble and weathered rocks is sharp edges. Just go over them with a bit of sandpaper to round them up a bit.

>>95871532
They work pretty well as rocks once painted, you would need something else if you're going for a boulder

Finally got the primary color down on most of my Lamenters. Need to touch up most of them still but its getting there.

Is the ochre scheme the best one for tau

>>95872455
Nevermind I'm going to go for turquoise

>>95872493
>Turquoise
Not really a color I see when I think of Tau but it's literally the best color so I'm sure it will work out

Painting these runes took so long, holy shit

>>95872815
worth it, looking crisp as hell. Are you gonna render out those flames next?

>>95872923
I think I'm gonna finish the metallics first, I'm still not 100% sure how I want to paint those flames

Opinions on the cloak? It's based in Naggaroth Night and highlighted in a mixture of Naggaroth Night and Kakophoni Purple. I also threw a bit of Carroburg Crimson shade over it to try and soften the transition lines. It looks very mediocre to me. I kept getting frustrated that my mixed paint kept over thinning while I kept trying to layer it.

>>95873206
Your highlight color needs to be a lot brighter, right now it looks like your midtone is being applied. Depending on whether you want a red leaning or blue leaning purple you could try mixing a light red or light blue to your purple mix to get a highlight color. Won't be as bright as mixing white in and it won't desaturate the purple as much while providing interesting hue.

Have to do some cleaning up on the face, but that's two out of four more or less done.

>>95871532
Seal them in with pva and spread some texture paste on the base before you paint them and they'll look great

Flakkwagon in progress

>>95873579
Also working on a tracked stompa behind him there.

Progress on the models for the party's upcoming Watcher showdown.

I was going to do the Watcher lanterns in orange, but I've held off thinking purple might be a more eerie look. Then I'll paint up the old Warhammer fantasy bases for the retinues.

>>95874297
More pics of all the butts n' booba models in frame.

I apologize if my question is estupid, but I wonder if you guys help the miniatures and their coats of paint dry by putting them close to your fan like this.

sorry, english is not my first language.

>>95874321
Not the best picture, but here's some of them at least. The fight will really come down to how much work the bunny-eared twilight knight puts in with the twilight sword

>>95874456
>twilight knight
You're speaking french, I don't know what game this is, just wanted to see the ladies.
Very well done btw. There aren't enough cheesecake minis on tables.

How do you all paint your models quickly enough to enjoy them for gaming? I only paint for kill team or blood bowl and it takes me a couple of hours per model to paint because I just can’t paint less than my best. Is lowering expectations the answer?

>>95874441
Maybe, but it could also move drying paint and make texture. Put the airflow near the mini but not directly onto it, like a fan blowing a couple hand spans above it.

>>95874441
Use a hairdryer on the lowest heat setting

>>95874510
Batch painting and successive steps. Paint one color on multiple mini's and finish that color completely. Also block out basic colors and come back for detail work at a later date.

>>95874510
Sometimes I do a blood bowl team in a weekend, sometimes a couple weeks and sometimes months.

>>95874500
The game is Kingdom Death: Monster. A game of dark and sexy survival horror set in a nightmarish world of eternal darkness. Survivors awaken like lost children with nothing, and must band together into settlements by lantern light and learn to hunt the monsters that hunt them.

>>95874596

>>95874606

>>95874596
>Minis are $50 each
Well there goes that idea...

lots of great painting in this wip thread, heres my first attempt at shining spears

Aggressors finished in time for my game monday.

>>95874926

Painted a test skeleton for a new project, gave nmm a shot

>>95872815
kino

>>95873413
God I love goblinas so fucking much.

>basecoating a boxnought with chaos bits to proxy a helbrute for cheap
>something is weird
>it's much faster than i'm used to
>realize it's because I don't have all the fucking trims to paint
I love CSM but man...

>>95874596
>>95874606
I really dig this.

>>95875137
Love the bored looking shield.

>>95868646 (OP)
Anybody who has done 2 part mold casting, is there a mold release you recommend while creating the second half of the mold?

I'm slowly expanding my Servitor horde. I will probably use some desert/dust pigment for their bases and around their feet as someone over at /40kg/ recommended it, and i'm sure it will look good, but i'm also kinda tempted to base them onto grass, and some flowers for the contrast of machine/death and nature/life.

>>95870205
Thank you for your service, anon!

Are tamiya thin cement paints good enough to stick my plastic together or am i suppose to use super glue lol

Happy how they turned out. Only issue is that the powdered pigment tends to get stuck in crevices.

>>95875803
Tamiya extra thin isn't paint, it's a plastic specific glue. It welds one piece of plastic to another piece plastic permanently, and only does plastic to plastic.
Superglue is for sticking together everything else, or where you might want to separate the parts later.

>use old Lahmian I got a couple years back
>shake it for a couple minutes
>it's still bubbly and garbage because it's old and the recipe is shit and doesn't mix well anymore
>it's almost full too
>shit up my mini with it
God this shader shit is so annoying

>>95875828
I'm a newbie, so is there much of a difference at this stage, when I know my first couple dozen minis would suck?

>>95875840
What are you talking about?

>>95875854
I was mixing some bright green with Lahmian over a white basecoat for a glowy effect and the expired Lahmian left these shitty soapy bubbles

>>95875842
Superglue requires precise application, is easy to fuck up and leaves residue behind.
Tamiya cement is thin and evaporates, so there's no visible residue left behind on a glue seam.
You can melt details if you apply too much, but the bottle comes with a small brush, so it's hard to fuck up if you aren't a total hamhand.
You can also use the cement for other stuff like deliberately melting details, or throwing dissolving plastic offcuts to thicken it up and make a plastic gap filler.
Just get both, watch a video or two and use them as and when you feel appropriate, you'll need one or the other eventually anyway.

>>95875874
>>95875840
Lahmian medium has an expiry date?
I just made marine juice with it and plan on making some for a good friend come his birthday.

>>95875899
Lahmian is shader without pigments.
The old shader recipe stops mixing properly after a couple years, no idea about the new one.

>people say airbrushing makes army painting a joke

I don't really understand how it does this aside from making the primary color faster to paint.


For things like these Ardboyz, how would I leverage my airbrush for the back areas? When do you put down the airbrush and pick up the brushbrush?

>>95869349
Are you the anon who made that?
What specific gloss varnish did you use?
LGS sells Ak ultra matte and AK gloss and I'd like to know if those are good for wargaming purposes.

>>95875444
looks good. lenses are cute

>>95875842
Plastic cement is great, I've only had problems mounting GW's flight stands to bases with it (and the non-thin one at that), and a small pot can do a good many models. Superglue is what you'll definitely use for magnetizing and resin models.

I only use super glue, I find myself replacing arms and shit all the time and plastic glue's strength is only really needed for tiny bits like the head of a spear or something

Been painting a ton, just rly sloppy quick hopefully impactful

This guy took less than an hour

>>95876422
Ghosts look decent
Swarm look okay
The chieftain looks monochromatic

Blood Bowl apothecary and cook.
OSL didn't work out so well, but too late to redo it know.

>>95875990
nice!

>>95875969
>airbrushing makes army painting a joke
Only when painting something relatively uniform in color and low in details (such as marines) or vehicles/mechs
For something like your example I think airbrushing wont help that much unless you go for zenithal + contrast/speedpaints

>>95876422
>>95876401
>>95876324
I like them.

This is probably a stupid question but I figured it's worth an ask.
Is there any material difference between the decals we put on our models and decals used for fingernail art? Is there any reason 8 couldn't use fingernail art decal on my plastic models?

>>95876486
>apothecary
That's a wizard.

>>95875826
Deathskulls are best skulls, love the warpaint.

>>95875969
Break the problem down into smaller easier problems. Instead of "how would I use the airbrush on this mini" instead ask "would I use the airbrush for this part/color." Using this mini and its colors as an example, the stapes I'd take would be:
>large needle and nozzle for priming
>when cleaning the primer out of the airbrush switch to a .3 needle/nozzle for detail
>spray the black metal, clean airbrush
>spray the brown for the pants, clean
>spray the green skin, clean
>spray the yellow metal, clean
>touch up overspray by brush
>the shirt, straps, bandages, and cloth can blocked in after

Instead of trying to spray everything and avoid mistakes I'd just get the large areas blocked in quickly then fix overspray after. The cloth shirt and straps on his back and the loincloth in front can just be done by brush later rather than trying to painstakingly angle the airbrush and try to get everything that way. Its a tool like any other, use it to save to time elsewhere.

>>95875969
Marco's new video is extremely relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edTChHiCAq0

He usually does airbrush base + zenithal + constrast + oil wash, to do incredible stuff incredibly quickly.

Another 30 minute paint

>>95876810
This guy might have the best advice on the entire planet but I refuse to watch him because of this obnoxious voice thing

>>95876836
if you're that annoyed with it you can just mute the video and use the subtitles.

>>95876810
If anon had the control necessary to pull off what this guy is doing I don't think he'd be asking for advice on when you should use an airbrush

>>95876550
Bump bump bumppp

>>95876830
Excellent work for 30 mins anon.
Good job using the dry brush to blend it all together

>>95876855
yeah, in that video he uses it for a bunch of small detailing, I posted it because the subject is Orks. In this plague guard one for example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREkHQiltg0 it's pretty much just setting lights/shadows + mood. The part that needs more controls is when he does the purple detailing on capes, but you can safely incorporate 80% of the airbrushing concepts just doing zenithal with different colors.

If you're interested in oils or contrast painting, going over his channel is really worth it, most of his videos are his usual speedpainting process, but he does instructional stuff too. - Here's one all about oil painting from top to bottom, for example . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3XRwj5l3Eo&

>>95876486
I thought FB dwarfs couldn't do magic?

>>95873297
I'm going to try laying they whole thing over again. I'm not happy with how it came out. I'll try mixing up way more paint than I should need and try to limit how much water mixes in, since it always keeps thinning on my wet palette. I'm tempted to even paint over with the base again and start over, but at that point the paint my start getting too thick and leaving texture.

>>95876422
Looks like it tbqhwyn

>>95873206
>>95877043
You sound like you're actually trying to improve so I'm going to give you my honest thoughts because it does not look very good.
My first issue would be the color choice, blue and violet/purple can work together but the shades you picked don't do it for me. That's just an opinion though.
Creases and top of the folds have way, and I mean WAY, too little contrast. Try adding some black to your shadow color and brighten up your highlight with bright pink or blue depending on what result you prefer. I think I'd go with pink myself to add some warmth so that it contrasts with your cold blue.
Your transitions are very abrupt, there are places where it doesn't look blended at all. It looks to me like you were glazing which is pretty hard to do properly on larger surfaces like that. My advice would be to layer instead - slowly add you shadow/highlight color to your midtone and build the transitions that way with thin layers. It's a lot easier to get a solid result this way.

>>95877147
I wasn't trying to glaze. I think my wet palette was too wet and thinned my paint while I was using it. It's a frequent issue I have desu. Mixing a consistent color is hard with GW pots. I think I'll just go over it all again with Nag Night and start again, hoping that the paint doesn't get too thick on the cape. At that point I'll have to strip the cape with will be a pain.
I was iffy on the purple at first and thought it would make the whole thing too colorful, but it grew on me when I got the base color down.

I doubt myself - I started with "orange brown" over black, now I'm not sure if I should apply flesh wash all over, start going forward with "beige red" or straight to "sunny skintone" and "luminous flesh"?

>>95876550
I've seen Imperial Knights with fingernail art decals so I guess it works.

>>95877293
>Megumin and Nep mugs
Oh hey I remember you

So I'm guessing the best way to fix shitty bubbling texture is to put a bit of varnish over it and paint it again? >>95875874

>>95877214
Also sounds like you may have a little bit too much moisture in your brush after washing it, so you're adding a tiny bit of water to your paint mixes each time you go back to the palette until your paint breaks and gets watery. Just to eliminate variables with your paint make sure you're wicking the extra moisture out of your brush onto some paper towels after you wash it.

>>95877509
I do, and I test it against my skin to see how much moisture there is. I've heard that the appropriate amount is that you should be able to try a very small line with the water on your hand. Should I be going drier, to the point where it leaves no water on my hand?

>>95877406
If its really bothering you you can always take a blade and carefully scrape the bubbles up and slap down more base coat after. Even if you need to go to bare plastic putting a little spot of primer back isn't too much of a issue.

>feel ashamed of backlog
> Make a rule that I can't get any more kits unless I build five kits from the backlog
>It works
>Backlog shrinks

Holy shit being disciplined actually works I'm so goddamned surprised!

>>95877616
I set myself a goal that I'll not buy any new kit until I'm left with max 2 boxes in my backlog and I managed to stick with it for almost a year. I do plan on getting the Cathay battalion and I'm not at the goal yet but oh well, fucking fomo bullshit wins again

Stilt rat
Stilt rat
Stilt rat.

Man it feels unreal painting something that was actually manifactured in pewter and based on my own sculpts

You're so cool, anon.

>>95877948
No, I'm not.

Looks like I "set out to the sun with a hoe", I thought I can pull out doing skin but looks like I failed hard. Absolutely awful. And worse yet, I can't strip it since this model is quite fragile (already snapped arrow once for example) so 40€ worth a model went to shit.

>>95878056
oil wash!

oil wash!

oil wash!

>>95878056
Get a cheapo ultrasonic cleaner and it will strip your model clean in minutes without any manual action from you

>>95878103
No, I don't have one and definitely won't buy another stuff, I have whole boxes of paints, washes and such, no more hoarding!

>>95878125
Aren't those things dangerous?

Started my Kingsman today. Had some black oil paint on the palette leftover from silly goat, so I did the base first to get rid of it. Now onto the main event.

>>95878134
Don't fill it with jet fuel and you'll survive, maybe

>>95878134
only if you use something flamable instead of water on it. Some people like using alcohol, because it helps getting the paint off. If there's a leak or a spark, the whole thing goes up in flames.

>>95878134
No?

>>95878125
So you agree this shit is not-fixable and only solution is to strip?

Takin more time on him

>>95878152
I've been putting IPA directly into mine for a while and the only thing that happens is the alcohol gets a bit warm after the longer(~5min) cycles

>>95878056
If your paint is thin enough, you might be able to get away with starting again. If worse comes to worst, I think you could just let it soak for a day or so and gently rub the excess paint off.

I don't really consider myself better than "alright" at this sort of thing, but I think you should have started with a darker colour and worked your way up. I posted this last week, but I did a similar thing with this model. I fucked up my initial coats by making them too bright, so I slopped a warmer brown over everything and started over.

>>95878218
Idk if its unfixable since I avoid painting pinups because female skin hard
But if you feel like you’ve ruined it and want to start again, ultrasonic cleaner is an easy way to strip the mini both fast and carefully

>>95878266
show her ass

>>95877850
there needs to be a trenchcoat and hat on the floor next to him, that model is great

>>95878279
I fucked up the ass. The shift between the tones is far too harsh. Fixing it is currently on the "to-do" list, but the wife is happy enough with it, so it's not that important.

>>95874678
Well, $30. $50 is painter's scale or it's bundled with painter's scale. You can check back on Black Friday for discounted minis (depending how fucked they are from tariffs) if they have any left in stock. Alternatively, check second hand places like Facebook.

>>95878056
idk how you think you've ruined it already, just looks like you've basecoated the skin (but noodled around with layering). Just wash it darker, then go slowly with thin glazes/wet blending each area. As an anon said, oil washes would be great since they would provide the soft skin like transitions easily and you could just focus on the midtone to highlight transitions.
If you're worried about the microscopic damage you've done to the texture of the model with your layers then idk.

>>95875372
>Anybody who has done 2 part mold casting, is there a mold release you recommend while creating the second half of the mold?
I use Smooth-on silicone spray. Dust the mold, then use an acid brush or other sythetic brush to apply a thin even layer. Remember to remove your master model and get the release into the existing mold cavity, and trim off any thin rims standing proud of the cavity's edge as well. If you don't get release inside, it's really easy for a small amount of silicone from the second half to sneak around the side of the master model and leave a big, ugly blob in there.

For casting I use talcum powder, it seems to disrupt the surface tension of both resin and tin to make them flow better, and it doesn't burn. Baby power is no-go for tin, though, it's mostly cornstarch and not talc. Make sure to pop on a dust mask, talc is a cumulative carcinogen and it itches like a bastard if it goes up your nose.

>>95876550
>Is there any material difference between the decals we put on our models and decals used for fingernail art?
No, they're gelatin impregnated with ink on a paper backer.
>Is there any reason 8 couldn't use fingernail art decal on my plastic models?
Nope. Go ahead. It's pretty common in mecha circles already. You can also get decal paper and print your own.

I always wanted this model; picked this "pro-painted" lad up on eBay. Added some highlights and a new base, so now he matches my army.

>>95878450
>>95878276
>>95878266
Thing is, I screw up every soft transition attempt. When I was searching for info, I ran into people using wet palette and thinning to glazing but in my case, when I thin paint to glaze, it rapidly dries on wet palette. Yes, I known it supposed to keep it moistured but no matter what kind of baking paper I use, it's double coated.

Still, before going to stripping I will at least try to fix it a bit then.

>>95878501
Either you're using an incredibly scuffed wet palette, or you live in a place that's dry enough to justify owning a humidifier. Get a real wet palette, get a humidifier, or get both.

As a side note, if you're going to strip it anyway, you may as well see what a wash does to it. Darken it down with a wash and see where reapplying some of the layers leaves you.

>>95878553
I tried GW "fleshshade" but it would leave "spotted" surface. I think I could borrow some oil paints, mix with white spirit and attempt to make wash out of it but no idea if it would dissolve paint or not since I never did this before.

< 3 hours

I signed up for a big painting competition but i have no idea how to spend more time on my minis

Its just a skill and style i haven't explored

Ive always had most fun painting fast but I also want to get good

>>95878501
take it easy anon. Maybe try painting thinly but not glazed on the model with one brush, and then using a wet brush to dilute the paint up to glaze the surrounding areas whilst still wet. Glazing is very temperamental to me and I try to avoid it since I can never get the same consistency of paint every time.
Or try painting layers with shitty harsh transitions, and then wet blending those transitions softer.
Skin is hard and especially female skin because it's so soft. As another anon said starting darker would be easier if you're doing it without relying on washes since skin is at its basic is 3 colors. Dark -> saturated midtone -> desaturated highlight (and then bright highlights and finishing touches).
So you do the dark -> midtone transition and then to highlight without muddying up the hues with mixing the dark with the desaturated highlight. which would look weird. Dark mixing with the desaturated highlight will look grey, like stubble.

So, I went to my parent's house, and look what I've found. Thank god my grubby young me did not manage to cover it with thicc paint like the rest of the stuff from the box. I think this could become a nice jungle diorama.

>>95877850
Where is that from?

>>95878682
I attempted to do it with those three on black primer, so you say I should rather start with something more dark orange?

>>95878597
I'm no comp painter but from what comp painted models I've seen you're lacking in contrasting shades and focused highlights. That is to say your shadows should be lower value contrasting colors to make your intended lighted colors pop and the highlights on the focus point(s) of the model should be higher value than anywhere else on the model (the face, in this case).

>>95878496
I actively avoid buying any model advertised as “pro painted”

>>95878723
It's from the Procession of Morr (inspired by the image in the mordheim rulebook) project from Res Tattica on facebook. This Is One of two rats i was asked to sculpt for It. They sent me the full pewter casted copies of the entire set for the first run. It was a lot of fun to work on It honestly.

>>95878725
I would say that some more contrast would be more fun to look at for a mini, maybe it's the lighting but your dark color doesn't look especially dark. And without a wide enough value transition it looks sort of flat. And having it darker would make it easier since getting the volumes sorted would be easier and more visible softer transitons would be obvious
But also looking at it again I think you're overthinking it because the rest of the model is still just black primer, and all your supposed mistakes are standing out in contrast. Honestly it just takes time, simply from the drying time of paint. Nothing's ruined

Anybody have recommendations for contrasts to wash over bronze like how guilliman flesh gives great shading to gold?

>>95878809
getting my money's worth out of a photoshop subscription. Burgundy/brown (can make it out of red and brown) is a good color for skin shadows.

>>95878827
I've never seen anyone shading bronze with something other than brown. I think you add interest to it with verdigris instead

>>95878806
Is it available for sale?

>>95878809
Okay then, I will see where this will go before deciding if it require starting over or not. I checked on one of test tiles (for testing shades with Vallejo and AK paints) and seems that white spirit shouldn't dissolve cured paints so I can try this trick with oil paint turned into wash, too (let's just hope that artist oil paints will work for that purpose).

>>95878853
>photoshop subscription
>giving Adobe money
>ever
Nigga what the fuck are you even doing with your life.
t. graphic designer

>>95878911
im too retarded with tech to know how to crack it or whatever

>>95878891
Should still be. Or at least ask for the next casting. Sorry i can't give a link atm. But you can look up Res Tattica or Res Tattica Projects on facebook and ask them directly.

>>95878853
>we wuz elves n sheeit
lol.

>>95878927
its the same image without the highlights, so he wuz at one point in the painting process, truly

>>95868699
The osl doesn't make sense, those little light thingies in the legs are someone how lighting panels they couldn't because you just aplied the osl in a radius around the source instead of considering that, Most egreious is the one on the inside of his left leg, it shouldn't be projecting any light at all onto that panel above it.

Not bad in terms of quantity tho

Im finally back to painting after my move, im having ao much fun i kinda wanna stay up all night and finish this model
But i gotta sleep

Do I just keep this tape on until the very end?

>>95879214
She cute, well painted too

Finished the metallics today

>>95879312
Thats a lovely paint job anon, is that a 3d print for the hh rhino?

>>95868646 (OP)
Working on my Black Orc Palette Cleanser cos im fucking sick of painting purple

>>95879135
Even disregarding the scheme, it's the sculpt of the nose and lips, truly repugnant.

>>95879412
Cheers, I used a 40k chaos rhino kit but I think the guy I bought the custom parts from actually recommends the hh one.

>>95879461
you're weird

>>95879514
NTA but that's actually a very normal and healthy response to such imagery.

How do you all feel about tiny airplanes?
6mm WWI 1914/1916 German airplanes. I gotta figure out these flying stands, they're a mess.

>>95878911
>t. graphic designer
How’s affinity photo? Gimp?
I want to photoshop my wargaming models to look like ww2 combat photos.
And how is linux support for affinity photo?

>>95879890
I have no strong feelings about planes of any size, but tiny Iron Crosses are incredibly awesome.

>>95873206
Progress. Completely redid the cape and I'm much happier with it. I also more or less finished the blade except for the rune. Opinions on color?

I'm new to painting but I just finished this. I did it in a single night and while not perfect it looks more than fine from table height. I have a question. What is the best holder to hold minis while painting them. Preferably without there needing to be a base attached because i like adding my bases last

>>95880201
Also i forgot to ask, In the Boba Fett picture you can see that the paint looks uneven on his clothes. Idk why it came out like that but i'd like to avoid it going forward. So what did i prevent it?

>>95880201
>Preferably without there needing to be a base attached

Cork handle and pinning

>>95880138
As someone who politely didn't say anything last time because he didn't see a way to fix the cape that is a proper fix, good job.
Opinions on the cape color or the sword? Don't change a thing on the cape, sword runes are crying for an alt. color and the hilt needs some pop

>>95880313
Opinion on the rune color. Should've been more specific. Sword's nowhere near done yet. Only the blade is finished. I still need to highlight all the metallics and a few other spots. And the head.

So I got up to this today. I was under the impression that the Kingsman was supposed to be gold, but I took a better look at the original reference and it's just the yellow light coming from the lantern. So I tried doing this true metallic OSL madness. I'm actually satisfied with how it turned out, looks better in person. Not sure if I'll go over it with a brown oil wash, will decide tomorrow.

>>95880548
Nice. I also went with a darker metallic for the same reason. If you look on the King's Curse armor cards, you'll see it's a mix of silver with gold trim going on.

>>95880561

Trying to paint my first tank the way I paint for wargaming with a few extra steps.
When in doubt is dark brown a good color for chipping?
Is it recommended to go back to the original color basecoat of the tank color to cover up any possible tidemarks?
And when in doubt what drybrush color is best for creating highlights?

>>95880561
>>95880566
Love your models love your photography. Simple as.

>>95880561
hmm, I'll take a look at the cards, maybe I can get some of the gold trim on.

>>95880626
>Love your models love your photography. Simple as.
Thanks! it's been fun learning how to use the camera

Working on these

>>95880705
The models are nice, the painting is great, I just can't wrap my head around how much you've spent on these, not even GW charges that much for a single figure.
The game looks great with all that cheesecake, just can't get past the barrier to entry =/

>>95880940
It's definitely a luxury hobby. There are chinese recasts now you can get for $13 per model on ebay, though, if you want to get into it

say hi to gnorg. be nice to gnorg. tell him what you think of him so far.

>>95880963
That's definitely better, but I'd really like STL's
Don't even need to be exact copies, just suitable cheesecake proxies would suit me fine.
I might be able to come up with something by digging and assembling a set by hand.

Cool, so this took forever. First attempt at a head and pretty happy. Glad to see all the Illustration/Animation courses I took in art school (that I have rarely ever used in my UI/UX day job) enabled me to paint tiny heads well.

>>95881207

Once I wrap up the other three heads, I’ll stick with helmets for the foreseeable future. Heads are fun and as much as I am a perfectionist, my attention span on these is limited.

>>95880769
Green ranger on the right

>>95881005
Slambo's more attractive cousin. Really nice skin tone on the face and the red beard is lovely.

>>95880626
Dark brown often works, but all of your questions really depend on the tank and it's colour. You don't highlight/dry brush a T-34 with the same colour as a Tiger, simply said.

>>95881207
Dope.

>>95868646 (OP)
Making some advancements for a league, now I just need to finish cleaning them, some detailing, basing and done

Second guy

>>95876422
We can tell.

>>95879907
Gimp is not good. It can do a fair bit, but every step is a cock and balls torture and the result is not guaranteed to be great anyway.
I didn't work with Affinity that much, but everyone I know is praising it, including people who do some pretty nice things. I would definitely go with it over a Gimp.
Photoshop runs with Wine, btw.
There is also https://www.photopea.com/, which is basically Photoshop in a browser. The only problem is that there are some limitations compared to the real thing (such as very barebones Camera Raw).

I would either go with PS/Wine or Affinity (no clue how it runs on Linux).

>>95881216
red bolters on UM look so much better than black

>>95882160
>Brother, what is the strategic significance of the diarrhoea planet?

>>95880940
There's also a pretty steep discount for Black Friday, although 1) they remain expensive as fuck and 2) people fucking SLAM the site the instant it goes live.
>>95881048
They crop up here and there. Poots has a distinctive style but it's not like you can't find small-scale anime figurines and such.

>>95882079
Different person but there is always Darktable - open source, on both Windows and Linux but heading towards odd development direction by removing simple and trusted modules in favour of convoluted and advanced ones (including, most hilariously, removal of "contrast/brightness/saturation" sliders in favour of module that explicitly states in manual that user need to understand colour theory to even begin). I personally still sit on 2.x version that works just fine. There is also cheap alternative in form of Corel Paintshop.

>>95882079
>>95882227
>tfw still using a pirated copy of Photoshop CS2
>it has literally everything I need for simple image editing

>>95877305
>>95878488
Thanks anons

Tamiya X-22 Clear... Why are you reactivating month old paint on my palette? Stop that.

>>95882400
tamiya acrylics are alcohol based and not water based, they WILL reactivate water based acrylics if hand brushed on top of them

>>95882503
autistic german hands typed this

>>95882509
lay down the crack pipe broski

>>95879907
>I want to photoshop my wargaming models to look like ww2 combat photos.
Fotosketcher

Cooked up a base recipe for my new undead army

>>95882549
Not him, but thanks.

>>95882160
OPTIC BLAST

>>95881207
Very nice, I like in particular the five o'clock shadow. I used to be all helmets all the time but something clicked a while ago and now I can paint OK faces, but yeah they take way to long so only my characters get them

>>95883090
>WOOOOOOOOO!

Bros I'm sick and tired of citadel technical paints that need 2 hours of shaking to work properly.
What's the machine I can get that will shake them for me?

>>95883243

>>95883264
Is that a sextoy?

>>95881826
>>95881831
thin your paints fren

>>95883243

>>95883243
just get one of these bad boys and stick a pot with some blu tack

>>95883269
:muscle massage gun", but vibrating sex toy should work equally well if you can figure out gripping paint pot to the tip

>>95878695
Gimme

>>95883269
no, but it's ambiguous enough
the magic wand is also not a sextoy

>>95874678
Buy ching chong recasts.

>>95883426
But my LGS will go out of business if I don't buy overpriced plastic from there...

>>95883464
you are in luck, it's resin not plastic

>>95880963
good work on these. I've got a whole citadel carrying case with mine that are primed but i've been too intimidated to paint. I'll get to them eventually (meanwhile i'm waiting on yet another one to show up in the mail)

>>95882671
Love it. Reminds me of the scarlet rot from Elden Ring.

>>95883464
If they are smart (and they probably are, because they are still in business in 2025), they have an online store and make their money buy selling trading cards there, and their store and the miniatures are just there as a sidebusiness for them. Like, you know, most hobby stores do it.

>>95883590
Except my LGS also happens to be both a FLSG and a GW store

>>95883588
was thinking of adding some kind of details to a few bases here and there, maybe leaning into that with weird little root like growths and fungus would be fun, along with the mandatory stray skulls

>>95883600
Then you should not support them in the first place.

>>95883347
Everything that vibrates can become a sextoy if you hold it next to your dick

>>95883734
They're already opening only in the afternoons in a small ass shop which is sus

>>95883811
nah that only makes sense during the week. most people are working. can't justify paying someone to man the shop while people aren't there.

About yesterday suggestion for making oil wash with oil paints and white spirit, I borrowed some oil paints set from mother and now wonder - for skin wash, it should be primarily burnt sienna with little red?

>>95884018
This. Stores with opening hours starting 8:30/9:00 are completely out of time. Who is supposed to go there? Neets? Housewifes? Former have no money, later are pretty much a thing of the past.
Here (small ass town in Germany), stores usually close at 20/21:00, but our LGS has 3 "game days" and has open until 23:00, from 16:00, but only opens from 15:30-20:00 on all other days.
(they run an online store too, so they are working full time for sure, but there is just no reason to have someone sit in the store for the occassional kid walking in at 12 after school).

>>95883287
Tried it, turns paint into foam. Can't recommend.

>>95884018
So does it matter if I buy stuff at the local GW if it's the only LGS and the only FLGS and the redshirt there is a super sweet guy?
It's the only place with tables I have nearby and I don't have many friends because I'm a homosexual in Chechnya.

>>95884274
I don't like the one official GW store i've been to, just because it stocks only a few xenos kits and the playspace sucks, but if yours is better and the staff is good, support whoever makes you feel like a valued customer.
>I'm a homosexual in Chechnya.
bad roll of the dice on that one, i hope that doesn't prevent you from finding gaming friends.

>>95884274
Why does anyone gaming need to know you're a fag? it's your own fault for throwing it in people's faces if it's a barrier to gaming.
Why do fags need to bring the fact that they're gay into everything?

>>95884396
>>95884483
They don't have GW stores in Chechnya...

>>95884497
I don't see what that has to do with my statement or question

Anyone done tomb king constructs before? Trying to put together a construct heavy list, looking for tips on how to paint them and adding some contrast/"eye catching" quality to them. Don't want to go too far away from the animated stone aesthetic, but also don't want them to look boring standing on sand bases.

Currently split between a sandstone or obsidian look for them.

>>95882671
I like it anon, care to share your recipe?

Okay, tried that thing with oil wash and cleaning, I guess it does look better now. Had some hard time reaching some areas, however.

>>95883292
finally, an excuse for my esoteric sexual purchases

>>95883243
This is what you want. $19.99 on amazon

>>95884905
Thanks fella

Why is the yellow one cheaper? Is yellow a cursed color in China?

>>95885032
Yellow work same hours for less money

>>95885067
ah ah

>>95885032
quite the opposite

>>95885067
got me good

>>95885032
Probably old stock because fewer people bought yellows or something. I kinda like it, looks like an egg.

>>95884184
I would try yeah, but honestly burnt sienna alone should be ok.

>>95885197
I dig it too, I ordered it for 43 eurobucks because some random coupon was also applicable.

I vaguely remember a paint brush maintenance tutorial where the narrator said that brushes with their hairs trimmed close to the ferrule can make for good stippling effects like chipped paint. Anybody tried this? And remember the tutorial? I don’t have a test model handy at the moment.

>>95884789
Wait until it is nearly dry to touch (~30 min), then take a dry clean brush and smooth the color around for those perfect oil gradients.

Does anyone have any experience with using smashed porcelain as basing material? I have leftover bathroom floor tiles I could break up and use for rocks, but I don't know how it will break.

>>95885598
badly for rocks, better to simulate walls or concrete
you would have to crush it quite a bit to get useful small rocks
you could also crush it all the way to sand-like consistency to use as general basing material

i wouldn't recommend it tho, you can hurt yourself with the shards while you are handling it if you are not careful

>>95885598
I'd rather recommend going pick some gravel, porcelain shards can be very starp.

Gonna add some soot on exhausts and sand on and near tracks but otherwise chassis is done. How's it looking?

>>95885714
>>95885792
Noted, thank you

>>95885420
Just remembered now it is midwinter mini’s brush care video.

>>95885799
Pretty great.

>>95885799
Marvelous! Really liking the clean overall look, the flames, the blue gradient… well, everything, I guess.
And I agree with you, runes take sooo long to do. It’s worth it, but come on...

Thanks for feedbacks in earlier thread.
I'm tempted to leave the runes as they are, and yet, I've just used a thin line of ink on them.
I've been making “minor” corrections for two days now, I need to finish this before I go insane.
Finishing massive projects like this big mf is exhausting.

>>95874926
>>95874931
Look good

How do I archive this brown-orange tone of some of the elements in these temple guards with citadel paints?

I’m making an 6ed lizardmen army inspired in this color scheme.

>>95886151
With Citadel I think these would be something along the lines of mournfang-skrag-deathclaw browns if I remember correctly. Most paint ranges have these warm orange-browns.

I want to get into some historical tabletop games. I bought some Victrix and WA to see if I'd like building an army. This is my first time painting. It's not done, but the paint seems thick and very glossy. It's Mr. Hobby Aqueous.

Is Aqueous OK for hand painting non-mechs? Do I need to thin my paints more? Is it a skill issue, or should I just buy imported Vallejo or Citidel? I live in Japan so I wanted to do it with Mr. Hobby or Tamiya.

>>95886625
there is a very specific historical painting style used by all the cool boomers that relies on this style of paint, just lean into that.

>>95886625
i started with testors paints. once i found out i could get more matte acrylics i never went back. I think it would be worth investing in some cheap acrylics at the very least. you're not likely to regret the change.

More tiny airplanes!
British Moraine Saulnier N and B.E.2.c vs German Fokker EII and Aviatik CI.

>>95886884
When you were doing that, did you put a matte topcoat over the gloss paint?

>>95887011
lol no, i didn't even prime them. It was 2005 and somehow i ended up still liking painting after doing that for several years.

>>95886884
Oh look it's the craftsperg again.

>>95886072
rune glow looks awesome

>>95887058
No idea what you're talking about. I haven't mentioned using testors on here ever. i usually just post what i'm working on >>95873579
>>95873589

Testors was trash for most purposes, acrylics are a step up to getting actual results. if you can afford citadel or another company, great. otherwise cheap will do ok.

Progress for my tomb guardians. The black will be mostly gold soon, though I'm still not sure for the flesh. Trying for a red flesh tone, but don't think it's quite working on the faces yet.

Having a discussion with a mate, roughly how autistic on a scale of 1-10 is priming and fully painting tufts on bases because "nonpainted things don't belong next to painted things"

>>95887856
Whatever tickles your pickle. I personally like to drybrush the tips of the tufts and put a drop of wash on the base to help them blend in.

>>95886625
These paints are made with airbrush in mind. I never got my tamyia paints to work properly with a regular brush and would never go back to this brand for miniatures.

>>95887856
That's what Vince Venturella says but I think he usually just adds a wash and some drybrushing.

>>95887856
10

>>95885799
Fucking sick. Crisp, clean eyecandy, good shit

Pretty happy with how he Lucius turned out. I think the skin could be better along with the under suit ribbing but 'm looking for some feedback as I'm blind as fuck when it comes to mistakes

>>95886072
damn, looking sexy. did you use contrast paint for any of this? The grey fure, the tail, and the claws look like it but I don't mean it in a bad way. I think actually look great.

The horns are my favorite part. It's what I wish i coulda done for pic rel. The gradient is well done and I also like the weathering on the staff head.

>>95888591
>green yellow blue and red
It's missing another primary color

>>95887856
>priming tufts and fully painting them
Nonsense
>adding a little wash to the base of the tuft
Very good
>drybrushing the tips with offwhite
Also very good.

>>95868646 (OP)
Here's a rockgrinder i finished yesterday. I don't like painting vehicles, atleast the weathering is fun there

>>95889153
Very cool, anon.

Anon Corentin Basile de la Bougne

>order some kit and some glue online
>asked for a drawing of a dog as well
>they do it
lmao

>>95887192
Thanks! I'll probably add another thin touch of fluorescent green and call it done, since it looks pretty rough up close.

>>95888591
I used Contrast paints on two things: the skin and the little warpstones held by the smol rats. For the skin, though, it was more like a basecoat/roadmap, from there, I adjusted and built up the 'real' contrasts.
For the horns, to be fair, I had a lot of space to work with and could really spread the gradient the way I wanted. My advice, looking at your work, would be: don’t be afraid to use darker colors to push the contrast, white pops a hundred times more next to black (ehe).

>>95889157
tyty

I saw this illustration in a book and I really like the color of the pants so I took a picture. Does anyone know a vallejo or AK paint (or any brand for that matter) that makes this greyish-green paint?

Can anyone recommend cool "Wuxia" style minis?
I'm doing a Grand Cathay/Lumineth army for AoS and will need proxies for the Lumineth models that don't have a Cathay equivalent.

Making some more progress on this guy. Still a lot to do, but he's slowly coming together. Gonna add blood texture paint over the red red and I'm hoping it'll actually look like blood. Starting to think I should have zenithal'd it and done a transparent red over it though. At least it'll look wet after I add it like his guts though.

>>95889934
AK AFV British Dark Olive Green MAYBE?
Hard to tell with the swatches.
AK's AFV and AIR range don't get much attention for whatever reason.

>>95890020
If you want a boardgame with them, you could check out Rising Sun. Pretty good for boardgame minis. Although I guess they are more Japanese themed. If you do consider it though, probably want to get it sooner rather than later. CMON is collapsing so who knows how long that'll be in production.

>>95886072
Holy fuck

>>95890020
Puppetswar has some asian themed bits

>>95890071
>>95890071
thank you. I will bookmark this

>>95888432
The armour faces look great

>>95889934
AK 3rd gen german field grey, maybe


Also, here's some (slow) progress on Helbrecht. Lot of scrolls scribbling

Anybody here tried the proacryl acrylic washes? I’m thinking of using their black wash. How are they compared to citadel and the marine juice mixes?

Meanwhile

>>95890622
Anon please, those are my collected Blooded bits.
I'm hoarding them in anticipation of the WGA Damned shipping day to convert the shit out of my pledge.

>>95890933
Well it's just one of the two KT box that Chang sent me today
>the WGA Damned shipping day to convert the shit out of my pledge
Elaborate?

>>95890944
Wargames Atlantic has done a "not-traitor guard" crowdfunding campaign 2 years ago, and i was hyped enough to back it. After lots of delays (original they promised shipping date would be may24), apparently they will deliver this summer. And since then, i decided to already start my traitor guard army, first the tanks (because the campaign did not include any), then Sentinels, and then the Infantry because i think the Blooded look pretty cool. So i have build like 60 of them, and have around 10 sets of various recasts and prints "in storage" for whenever i get the bulk of plastic infantry, weapon teams, ogryns, cavalry, beastmen and artillery from WGA.

Its not possible to join the campaign, but as i said, they should deliver soon, and after that they will sell them regularly:
https://gamefound.com/en/projects/mwg--wargames-atlantic/the-damned

>>95891023
Very based, what's your dudes fluff?

>>95891030

They are a regiment with specialization on recon and urban combat, so many light infantry and light vehicles like sentinels, but after fighting in a remote warzone where they got cut off from supplies and had to fight for survival against mostly Xenos (which is why they see themselves as defenders of mankind still) for years. After the corrupt subsector officials refused to supply them with new vehicles and recruits, they more or less went rogue, drafted imperial populations into their ranks and stole equipment (and also killed numbers of pdf), and therefore were declared heretics. They were harrassed and fought imperial forces at some occasions, and it became apparent that drafting all sorts of human dregs into their ranks wasn't such a great idea, because in the common ranks, some warrior cults started to spread. Also the regiments command staff is sometimes rumoured to meet with a huge figure in power armour who serves as a tactical advisor.

(I kinda want to align them with the Alpha Legion, but i'm not 100% sold on how this contact could be established in a good and natural feeling way. But i guess a desperate regimental commander will listen to a Astartes if he offers help, and not seeing the bigger plan this Marine might have in mind).

did some touch ups on an old Warhammer fantast witch hunter I had. Still a decent looking model.

Thinking about using it as a character for rangers of shadowdeep

>>95891210
>kinda want to align them with the Alpha Legion, but i'm not 100% sold on how this contact could be established in a good and natural feeling way
Seems lore-friendly though, how does it usually happen?

should I stick some ball bearings in my pot of tamiya panel liner to help stir it when I shake or will they shatter the glass over time

>>95891231
Nobody knows i guess, its the Alpha Legion after all. I liked the idea of having a regular army slowly getting more and more corrupted by their constant suffering from the corrupt bureaucracy, the brutality of the war itself, by their bad recruits they picked in desperation and in the shadows, its one traitor marine pulling the strings all along, but at the same time helping them with tactical insights normal humans might not have, so they are actually beating back the Orks and Eldar raiders in the sector here and there

>>95891213
That model fucks

>>95891269
>or will they shatter the glass over time

wont happen

>>95891507
That's a relief, I was paranoid about it after watching a painting video where a dude was shaking an ink bottle and the whole bottom just snapped off

Veggies so far, only four more to go. Still trying to think of a way to make farm plants for the bases.

Also a chaos knight I'm working on.
I'm thinking of doing that skull as the blue of the armor with colored eyes, do y'all think yellow is too "off" for that?

>>95891023
>After lots of delays (original they promised shipping date would be may24), apparently they will deliver this summer.
I love WA, but they are making me seethe about this. I've been waiting for SpaceNam heavy weapons team for about a year now, it even got to the "Upcoming Pre-Orders" list, but since then, it mysteriously disappeared.

>>95891210
>regiment starts going renegade
>suddenly people start putting spikes and blades on their gear
on some level it's really comical

>>95891679
Seb did a couple videos on farms/veggie patches, you might find some worthwhile ideas in there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z4R1h1Qg30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6dY5suNhaw

>>95884602
It's just liquitex coarse medium with small rocks and sand and patches of turf painted flesh color and red with dark wash and iraqi sand dry brush

>>95891679
They look great but I just can't see them as "goblins" in any way. More like the products of a mad agricultural wizard, or the summons of a more "civilized" druid, more rural less hermit.

>>95891835
In this case, i dont think its their fault, because the spacenam come from Reptilian Overlords, and the guy at some point wrote in his discord that he is not interested in Spacenam any longer.
Afaik the heavy weapon teams will still come in plastic, but he has not provided all the files for the sprue yet, because his sculpting priority right now seems to be Warhammer Fantasy proxies.

>>95891841
Soldiers can become "barbarians" rather quickly if disciplin is slipping. You dont even need Chaos for this, but ofc it helps.

>>95891841
makes sense if you've ever served, soldiers do the most retarded shit constantly and it's only strict discipline from on high that keeps them from max mad cosplay

>>95891841
>people start putting spikes and blades on their gear

>>95890485
Never tried them but I’ve seen talk of mixing speed paint medium in acrylic washes to make them barely stain and flow onto recesses and around details.
What is speedpaint medium made up of?
The same Mikey ingredient could probably be the same for vallejos xpress medium citadel contrast medium and Ak’s new quick gen paints.

>>95891210
A /40kg/ thread had discussion about low equipped companies. Called “scruff companies” an anon said about his homebrew.

I personally think it is a good excuse to use whatever miniature bits one has if someone can’t decide on a uniform series of parts to make up guard regiments.
>>95883828

>>95892640
>scruff companies

Yea, its a great concept for any kind of pdf, or militia-like force as well. Its also awesome to include some proxy minis or vehicles if you dont want to build and paint those 15 leman russ tanks.

>>95892148
Thanks man!

>>95892164
The "goblins" bit is mostly just how they're advertised on the shop, but I agree. More product of a hedge wizard

>>95891023
>>95891835
>damned taking more than two years
Damn I gotta really paint

It kind of sucks that RO is more interested in Wfb proxies than his master regiment template. He’s got the foundations for it and isn’t seizing the opportunity properly.

>>95892710
It’s a rare /40kg/ “w” for win as the youngsters would say if I’m being honest.

>>95892806
why is /40kg/ such a cesspool most of the time anyway

>>95892828
I don’t know how to answer that question. I’m sorry anon. I don’t think autism suffices.

>>95892828
It's /tg/

Have to leave correcting ivory going around for tomorrow but I hope there is a progress.

>>95892992
Good recovery, anon. Fucking up and trying to fix it is part of the experience.

>>95891841
>>95892383
Whenever I was doing a 40 tag lockout/tagout and required a whole bunch of duct tape "butterflies" I would put them all over my body to resemble some sort of samurai/raider armor.
I also might be retarded

I'd like to revisit this kit and try something new. But the model is already varnished. Should I prime another layer and see where it takes me, just paint on the varnish? Or is it best to accept the burden of regret and leave the model as is?

>>95893370
The layers look fairly thin so you could try priming it again I think. Honestly the best way to go about this would be to strip it but I'd imagine stripping a model of this size might be difficult

>>95892992
knew you could do it anon

>>95886916
they look cool

How would you guys paint this scorpion guy? I wanna do a construct theme so I'm thinking obsidian for the scorpion body but the human torso is throwing me off. Maybe do his face/hands in like a dessicated grey?

>>95878266
What are the colours you used for base. Mid tone and highlight here?

>>95891679
I've had some luck using dark brown texture paste, then laying down short snips of jute twine with some ink toning as straw bedding. After this pic I hit it with grey, brown, and a little stippled black to make it look more weathered. Then I trimmed it back to the edges of the base later

>>95893906
For the skin?
>Citadel mournfang brown
>Two Thin Coats dark sun yellow
>Two Thin Coats Yellow flame
Did about a 50/50 mix as I shifted up. The image on the left was the base coat of mournfang with only a single layer of mournfang/dark sun mixed applied over the base.
I may have also used Vallejo's toxic yellow, but I can't recall.

>>95893871
If you want a harmonious scheme then you can use a dark purple shadow for both the obsidian and the skin. If you want contrast you can do a purple shadow for the obsidian and a dark green shadow into grey on the skin. Could make the obsidian just black and just do a tint to the skin, lots of ways to take it. What other colors are you using for the rest of his clothes and metals?

>>95894017
No green at all? Is that shade of skin just made from using the yellow over that brown? It looks like it's got a hint of green in it?

I will buy those paints and give it a go. The colour on the skin looks great.

>>95894044
Well initially I was trying to decide between sandstone and obsidian as most of these guys are supposed to be living statues, but I think sandstone on sand bases would end up looking kinda boring. So I'm thinking obsidian, maybe tinted either purplish or potentially like a greenish blue. Then gold for the metals, dirty ivory/cotton for the wrappings (classic mummy look), and maybe red and blue for some color.

Fairly standard tomb kings scheme. I have a pretty good handle on it save for the scorpion torso throwing me off.

>>95878266
what model is this

>>95894114
Twin goddess minis, bomb goblin or something like that. His stuff is fun. Does a good job of being a bit lewd without going overboard.

>>95894056
No green. The original scale I sketched out for myself had green in it, but I ended up removing it after my initial fuck up in favour of building up from a brown base.
I think I mentioned it in one of the other threads, but I like my goblin skins ranging anywhere in the browns, yellows, oranges, or greens.

>>95894114
This anon >>95894128 has it.
Wife confirmed it was Twin goddess. She got the files off of myminifactory.

>>95894128
Too much wash, or not enough going back over the wash with the base color, pooling is bad.

I'm going to make every shield in this army have a funny face, it's really fun

>>95890458
and progress on the servitors, just need a few more details and touch ups and they're done

>>95880548
I'm done. Pretty happy with the final result, I even managed to do some texturing on the cape. Fun.

>>95894627
>I'm done
You're not done until you post the cum tribute.

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>>95890458
>>95894546
I can never get the hang of painthing the little scribbles on the purity seals, paint just doesn't want to flow off the brush the way I want it to. Good shit anon.

>>95894808
I just got my gambler's chest, there'll be plenty of cheesecake in the future.

Pew pew pew

>>95894972
God damn

>>95894825
kek

>>95894948
Thank you, try and put a gloss coat on the seals, the paint will flow much better and you can wipe it off really easily if you fuck up

>>95894948
Mine don't come out nearly that good yet, but my advice is to use your single best brush with the sharpest tip, or just one that you seldom use except for extreme detail work. Thin the paint as normal but test it on your nail or skin to make sure it will flow properly and go ONLY exactly where the point of the brush is.
You do have to be fast because, at least in my case, the tip will dry pretty quickly. My last seals probably would have come out a bit better if I had a bit more patience and worked slower, but they came out decent enough

>>95894627
I parked myself at the shop today and got some progress done on the Watcher and 3 of my backlog twilight knights

How do people manage to get models done in a couple of hours or even a single painting session? I've had at least a few 6+ hour long sessions and gotten nowhere near complete with even a single model.

New thread:

>>95895196
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>>95895135
>>95895166
I see, I see, thank you. Yea, I think my main issue is that I'm just too slow, by the time I start applying strokes with my alzheimers tremor hands the tip of the brush is already dry.

>>95895188
you were right, that watcher does look pretty eerie with the purple lanterns.