Thread 95921769

Work in Progress, Duncan 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:
>>95895196
>>95868646
>>95846865
>>95823089

I came across this video: https://youtu.be/ZzkSrwXtdUg?t=361
It has a homemade black acrylic wash recipe that seems to produce pretty good results.
Recipe: Secret Sauce Black Wash Recipe
25 Drops Monument Hobbies Glaze Medium
5 Drops Liquitex Flow improver
1 Drop Liquitex Carbon Black Ink

How do people come up with these kinds of recipes to make the hobby better?
And has anybody tried this recipe to confirm it is as good as shown?

>>95921828
>only 1 drop of ink for 30 drops total of medium and flow improver
feels way too diluted to me but I'm no expert

>>95921828
Literally trying to reinvent the wheel. At this point you can as well just mix little black oil paint and few drops of white spirit, if you desperately need to mix your own wash. What's wrong with Dark Tone, Nuln Oil or whatever you have at hand?

>>95921857
I think its perfect to be honest.
I'll admit I'm a retard at math and most likely a lot more subjects, so I'm not sure how I can calculate how to scale up these numbers to something like 60ml dropper bottles I have or 18ml.
Can I get some help on that, please?

>>95921896
>if you desperately need to mix your own wash.
There is just a nice appeal to the DIY parts of this hobby and I like engaging in it.
That's basically it.

Took anon's advice and added some gore to the claws and face. I think it's an improvement, was a good suggestion.

>>95921828
It's just L. Bursley's secret weapon washes for the youtube grift era, complete with,
>25 Drops Monument Hobbies Glaze Medium
stepped on art supplies repackaged as hobby products. Just buy matte/ultramatte liquitex acrylic medium.

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/261541.page
>16 years ago, fuck me the time just goes.

>>95921896
Making your own washes to suit your needs is great, as evidenced by your preference for oils and spirits. Couldn't pay me to fuck around with turps/white spirits in my hobby area, nor pre-varnishing for washes like a scale modeler, but you do you. Personal preference is a good thing.

>>95922016
Now that is an amazing source, anon. Thank you so much.
It just blows my mind how people come up with these recipes and how these DIY things just manage to outperform what companies put out.
Maybe in vidya terms it is like how the modding community always makes the game better than what is originally put out. Is it the same effect?

Once again thank you for linking that.

>>95921316
tried a couple of these, but couldn't see a single image through them, always got double vision

>>95921769 (OP)
Finally done with Helbrecht. Was mostly fun

>>95922207
I had a feeling that head was yours lol, nice job

>>95922207
Possibly the best looking Helbrecht I've ever seen. Fantastic work, BTanon.

>>95922016
Nta, but you can alleviate most of the smell of white spirit with using odorless thinner, anon. Pre-varnishing is also not required (albeit a good practice).

>>95922222
Fucking look at those numerals. Nice.

>>95922222
>I had a feeling that head was yours
How

And look at them quints. This is some warp prescience

>>95922252
Really appreciate it man

>>95922207
Moggs the fuck out of Citadel painters. Good shit.

>>95922266
There's only like 2 people that post BTs here but this head felt like it fit your style. Yes, I probably should spend less time here

>>95921769 (OP)
Which is the better paint for one coat shit to knock down a gray horde Speedpaints or Contrasts?

>>95922207
Absolutely beautiful, anon.
I also need to know what gold you used.
I like it.

>>95922349
Both work, and so does Xpress by Vallejo.
It comes down to what minis, and how you prime them mostly. Then you decide which paints. A red from one brand, a brown from a different brand, and maybe a blue from a 3rd brand might work best for whatever you want.
All those paint ranges have some excellent shades included, and some that aren't that great, but often its also a matter of taste.

>>95922349
I would recommend SP over contrast, personally. It is trickier to work with because it's much thinner (do not think them unless you are making a wash out of them) and the capillary effect can cause the paint to run to other areas, so there is a learning curve for using them. The BIGGEST plus about them is that they all handle exactly the same. Every single paint, no matter which one you pick, will flow, cover, and apply exactly like every other paint in the line. So, once you do get the hang of them you can use all of them equally well.

Contrasts, on the other hand, are wildly inconsistent with every god damn paint in the line being it's own unique little pot. Thin? Thick? Pools well? Pools poorly? Runs? Doesn't run? White medium sticks more? Less? You will not know until you use the fucking things. You got about 50% of them that don't handle flat areas well, including Ultramarine. SP handles flat areas fine once you understand that you should use a large enough brush to apply minimal strokes and not push it around much (again a learning curve) but there isn't much you can do to make Contrasts that don't like flat areas work on flat areas.

There are other one coat paints out there but I only got experience with Vallejo outside Contrasts and SP. Vallejo is too washed out outside their intense line and the pallet range is too small to recommend as a result.

If you want really good results? Pass on all of them, honestly. Just get acrylics and learn techniques to make good mini paint jobs the traditional way. The one coat stuff is just about killing gray hordes to a "good enough" standard and bringing them above that is gonna take the same amount work and involve acrylics anyway.

>>95922349
AK

>>95922514
>The one coat stuff is just about killing gray hordes to a "good enough" standard

Why are you recommending to use regular paint then, if
> shit to knock down a gray horde
is what he is looking for?
That is exactly their purpose.

>>95922207
Nice

Finished the gutter runners and warpfire thrower.

>>95921857
It's actual ink, way more concentrated than miniature paints called "inks".

>>95922288
>>95922710
>>95922383
Thanks! The gold recipe I came up with is most likely unnecessarily convoluted.

>brown basecoat
>ap emperor gold drybrush (any other dark gold will do, or might even skip this part)
>make a mix with gsw gold pigments + vallejo gold + vallejo metal varnish + brown ink, drybrush that
>coat everything with dark brown oil paint, wait a few hours
>dab it away with sponge+white spirits, leaving it in the recesses etc
>carefully retouch the most exposed areas and edges with a mix of gsw gold pigments + vallejo gold + vallejo metal varnish

The gold pigments mix is very shiny, which is somewhat hard to properly capture with a picture, and really makes the armour pop. Vinny v showcased their use in one of his older videos if you want to know more, my recipe for the mix is basically the same

>>95922571
Just making sure he knows what they are good for. They are fantastic for horde killing. Prime a mini, one coat of the colors you want in applicable areas, hit it with a wash, done. It is fantastic for crushing board games with a lot of minis like a CMON title or HeroQuest and such, or if you just want to knock out an army the day before a game where you will be using the same paint scheme on all the minis.

A lot of people think that one coat stuff is a good "tool" to be used along side traditional painting techniques to get great results and, from experience, I outright disagree. For his purpose of horde slaying? They are great. Outside of that? Do NOT waste your money as they are not going to be worth a piss outside that intended use. I really try to stress that so people do not think they can just use them like regular paints in the future when they suck dick with traditional painting methods.

He's entirely magnetized. Time to start priming.

Forgot how annoing it is to paint orange. Three thin layers done. Maybe a brown wash over it and then more orange for that gritty feel.

Debating if I should make the halo of this statue golden or not

bros, I've got an army of unfinished models, mostly bought from ebay in various states of poorly built/ unbuilt. Should I focus on one unit at a time? build it up, paint it, devote all of my current time to making it as cool and fun as possible or- build /convert everything all at once -> prime all at once -> paint all at once? There's like 60 guardsmen and a load of random stuff to fix and paint and It's such a daunting pile

>>95922976
Keep it as is.

>>95922996
Don't do it all at once you'll burn yourself out. Work in piles of say 10 guardsman which is a chore to paint then cleanse your palate with a really fun model like a leeman russ or terrain.

>>95922016
Can I substitute matte medium with ultra matte medium? It will still work the same just with an ultra matte finish, right?

>>95922016
That recipe and it's effects look simply amazong.
Can I substitute matte medium with ultra matte medium? And does it really have to be distilled water? Can it be regular tap water? It will still work the same just with an ultra matte finish, right?

I recentered and redid the base the ogre was on, to a more Cheeto desert vibe to match some other stuff. I appreciate the call out, as I'm a lot happier with the overall vibe now

And a second pic, with some weird lighting that I didn't do anything to

>>95923304
it does look a lot better. Whenever I see this model I can't help but stare at the weird bubble muscle the sculptor put on the obliques to our right of the abs. It looks like a boil but it's not your fault lol

>>95922976
no

Mine big shield front row.

>>95921971
Yay! That looks so much better!

>>95919379
>MadrobotMiniatures
8€ for 5 pairs of legs.. I'll just grab some recast of the recent sculpts, shame because I have a lot of those other bits

>>95921971
Badass

>>95922805
hell yeah

>>95923447
The one on the right doesn't have a shield...

>>95922793
>>95922805
I like your rats anon and it's also making me nostalgic since my friend picked skaven when we were first getting into warhammer like 20-25 years ago.

>>95923714
One man small indie studio please be understanding.
>imcopingsohardrightnow.webp
I'm feeling the buyer's remorse given that I was retail therapy-ing with third party shops when I was at my lowest during the coof.

>>95923753
I spent so much money on kitbashing some chaos cultists back in 9th when they had 0 good official models but in the end I'm playing some traitors and I have a bag of unused bits.
Also the Blooded box is like 20 bucks with Chang, peanuts, I wasted my money on bits from around the interweb.
In the end Puppetswar was decent though.

>>95923158
Lads, please. I need to know if these modifications will be alright. I'm making a shopping list already as we speak.

>>95923772
I have like an entire drawer and more of unused bits.
I was feeling like utter shit during the lockdown.
But I am feeling a bit better nowadays.
A good amount of that money could have gone to making a guard army with tanks. But at least I learned the fundamentals of sanding, and scoring, and filling holes with greenstuff.

>>95923799
Good for you, fren. We all make stupid purchasing mistakes I think.

>>95923745
yah xe does. its just more modest.

>>95923824
This whole hobby is a purchasing mistake which is how I cope.

>>95923777
I think you should be just fine.
Would an ultra matte medium essentially make these custom washes like a varnish of some kind? Or at the very least make the minis have some tooth for gloss varnish to grip to?

Another chaos dude, I like the eldritch green base, I think I'm going to do my chaos goblins on this

C&C always welcome

>>95924039
Warduke! Nice job!

Finishing up this goober. Not sure I like the orangey yellow in the engines but meh

I was gonna start painting up the wolverine miniature for mcp using his brown and yellow color scheme, but I can't figure out what the fuck paint looks the closest to the way the brown is colored here, anyone know anything close? It's kinda autistic but I want to get the brown the similar redish brown color it is here.

Thanks for the feedback yesterday Anon. They're not supposed to look crusty, sadly. I'm trying to go for like desert tan, Marine style kind of look. I did black straps on the harness, and tried a wash. Not a proper wash but like a watered down paint.

Watched something on googles yesterday, and I think they're better than the last set.

Overall, I think they're just looking muddy, and my 'Tan' isn't white enough.

>>95924333
nta but they don't look crusty to me, they look great.

The crusty feel is most likely that somewhat noticeable film grain effect from your phone camera, trying using a different app to take pictures or check your settings, but even so they're fine desu

>>95924287
More a brick red, where the black inks are selling brown to your mind.

>>95923777
>>95923158
Yes, liquitex matte medium is more of a satin. Use ultra matte for flat washes. You use distilled water because tap water has loads of chemicals and or minerals in it. It costs like a 2 dollars for a gallon at the grocery.
No, it's not a varnish. It's a fluid acrylic medium, it won't dry as hard as varnishes do.
You can use the medium/water/flowaid mix to do fun stuff mixed with dry pigments too.

>>95924291
kek

>>95924518
And you can make your own "contrast" paint just using Cyan, Magenta, an Yellow ink. Some of them are exact matched to GWs.
Get a mini sketchbook, take notes of your mixes, and swatch everything.

>>95921769 (OP)
>TFW you are painting a mini and it's coming along great but then you have a seizure all of sudden and destroy the entire mini, a paintbrush, a chair, and almost break your god damn neck

Still can't get disability though because apparently I can work through seizures that medication has no effect on.

I miss being able to paint without worrying about shit like this.

>>95923158
tap water might end up with mold and shit when sitting for a long time or decant solids, also tap watter varies widly from place to place so for consistent results for a recipe you need to standarize it, thats why you use distilled

I like how this rat turned out

>>95924733
I really don’t know what to say but I really hope you overcome this problem.

Didn’t notice these dudes had specific torsos meant for specific legs till I was already painting them, how weird does this look in regards to the out of place armour? There are a few more like it. I’m wondering whether to just start from scratch since I can just print more

>>95924947
Forgot image

>>95924877
I also like how it turned out

>>95924953
its only the guy on the right that's a problem since he's got a tasset but no cuirass but even then its the kind of thing youd never notice if you hadn't said. If it's superglued then you could swap them but if to fix them you'd have to start from scratch then I wouldn't bother

>>95924733
that sounds like something dangerous enough to get gibs for

Armiger WiP at the base layer stage. Happy enough with the base/posing.

>>95925033
Yeah I think I’m with you desu. It really annoys me but at least for the next batch I can match them properly

>>95925354
It should be falling on it's ass at that angle, it looks so awkward =/

>>95924518
Thanks anon! Bringing some distilled water home.

>>95924877
I'm also a fan of how that rat turned out.

>>95921828
No clue about that stuff, but I often mix together different washes. I use speed paint medium as a thinner. Usually it ends up black, brown, green and red washes mixed together with an equal amount of medium.
>>95921913
Pretty much this

>>95921896
White spirit smells like shit tho

>>95922996
I'd say, fix all of them, one after another. Then prime the whole lot at once.
Then you separate them into small "squads" of 3-10 miniatures, depending on how many you are comfortable with and paint them. For me, the sweet spot is 6 or 7 if it's guardsmen type troops, and 4-5 if it's bigger stuff. But I know some people do batches of 20 and think that's the best way to do it. And for them, it might be right.

Why prime everything at once? I like to have a box of primed and ready for paint minis next to my desks so I don't need to prime something first whenever I have time to paint which makes it able to ignore the weather outside

>>95924291
Ight now I like it lmao

>>95925862
>Ight
Fucking cringe.

>>95925871
ight

Ran into a store that was handing out free models for a painting competition. Here’s my WIP. Going for a icey animated suit of armor look. Base is going to be snow. Shield is going to look very similar to the hammer. What we thinking?

Re-requesting any new Stahly swatches, please.
Currently have the 7-in-1 tool, the Washes picture, Pro Acryl, and AK 3rd gen.

>>95925295
You'd think, but if your under 50 and not minority they slow walk the paper and deny you every time so you have to go to a judge. Over three years and I'm still waiting for them to just say 'no' a second time so I can go before a judge. If I make one red cent through work in the meantime? I'm not disabled by law.

Still not as bad as the time I had one during dinner once and stabbed myself repeated because my hands wouldn't let go of the fork and knife. Luckily it was just superficial but that scared the shit outta everyone around.

Spent some time on the Lonely Tree today. Still needs detail cleanup I think, but I'm happy with the halloween color palette.

Do all varnishes have resin in them? My airbrush setup is fairly spartan and I've only worked with typical acrylic paint for models, just missing an extraction fan (albeit still looking for shitty USB ones to cut into the box) and I'm looking for a safe solution. Not opposed to getting an actual respirator with filters, but less cancer would be nice.

>>95926387
When dealing with aerosolized particulates in an enclosed space, it doesn't matter what the fuck it is, mask up or have a damn good fan to draw that shit away from your lungs. Even mundane stuff can build up and cause you problems.

>>95919427
What colors did you use? I like the reddish ochre.

Are there any good guides on how to make good looking ultra-glossy paintjobs? Something akin to AoS Khaine statues where instead of painting all thr highlights, the material it self is super glossy and uses the light for effect. Would it be the same as painting regular gems and then varnishing with gloss, or are there some better tips on how to get the feel of a semi-precious stone? Maybe this is a case where less is more and just a basepaint + recess shade would be better?

Hey guys, what lightbox do you recommend for amateur miniature photography?

>>95926467
Fair enough. I did have a small electric fan/heater setup outside the cardboard booth and pointing to the window, but I imagine it wasn't doing much on its own. Will keep looking about for something I can fit on fine.

>>95926433
Is this intentional or because of some shitty 3FD-printing?

>>95926235
Government workers get paid regardless of performance, so they're notoriously lazy. If you want things done from them you need to make not working on your case more of a hassle than doing so.

>>95927002
just fdm things

>>95926235
It might be a good idea to get an actual lawyer to do it for you, anon. Things tend to work faster that way. And I'm sure there are NGOs for people like you, too who would do it pro bono.

What is the best bronze metallic paint?

>>95927173
I used TTC spartan bronze for my hierotek circle and I really like how it looks, might be worth checking out

>>95925776
>White spirit smells like shit tho
Get odorless, duh.

>>95925871
now, ight?

>>95927206
or i keep using acrylic products

>>95927236
Acrylic washes are like ten times worse than oil washes. But if you like them, who am I to try to convince you otherwise.

>>95922207
fucking sick job man, very nice job on what I assume is a true metallic metal powersword.

>>95927236
>acr*lics
cringe

>>95927236
You don't need to be scared.
Thinners aren't going to kill you unless you drink them or airbrush them into your face.
Oil washes are a whole lot better than acrylic washes of any kind. You should try them sometime.
As far as I know the other oil painting anons here are also still alive.

>>95927370
>As far as I know the other oil painting anons here are also still al
Yes.
t. oil baron

Anyone know a guide for doing paper flags? I've printed some Empire for waha fantasy and don't wanna use the sculpted flags, but they come with empty flagpoles too so I can add a paper flag, but I've never done this before

>>95922207
I really like yout BT. are you painting to play? if so then I'm curious as to how you paint your troops. also how do you make your dudes so dark yet so bright? They look almost realistic but still pop out in the correct place

>>95921971
damn looks awesome. blood for the blod god and other gorey effects are often so gross and poorly executed, but this is the correct, gentleman's way to do gore.

what paints would youse recommend for WW2 australian uniforms? wanna do victoria minis new guard models. only have access to citadel and vallejo in my area sadly

>>95927461
Green paints.

>>95922207
Fucking nice. I wish I found painting fun, if I did one model at a time I would never finish my armies

>travel overseas to visit family
>can only bring about 20 paints in my bags
>have lots of fun with this new puzzle aspect of painting and mixing new colors

Has anyone ever done painting where they limit themselves to a set number of paints? Kind of like those cooking shows where each chef can only use what's in a random refrigerator. I feel like it would be very fun so I have been looking into pic rel. The new AP paints have been working out well for me. I doubt any of you would buy somethign like this but I'm curious about creating my own set number of paints for a project.

If I was to buy pic rel then what I'm paying for most of the palette selection being done and formulated for me, like the "orc skin" or "zombie horde" or "ww2 pacific" paint sets that some companies market.


Also I'm not sure which of the two is best. i paint a lot of AoS Nurgle and Orcs/goblins but I also print individual minis or dabble in fun side projects from time to time.

>>95927182
how did you do the glazing on the little guy's tuning fork spear thing? and what did you shade said spartan bronze with?

>>95927495
>how did you do the glazing on the little guy's tuning fork spear thing
caliban green - warpstone glow - moot green - vmc ice yellow, I'm fairly sure I used glaze medium with the yellow cause it's kinda ass to glaze otherwise
>what did you shade said spartan bronze with
Tamiya dark brown panel liner but it looks good washed with agrax as well

>>95926235
Put on black face and try again

>>95926235
Do you eat dinner with a cork on a fork now?

Today's a green stuff day, dislike working with the material, but thankfully beards are very forgiving. Still need to make some cables for the rotor cannons of voraxii. Or should I just use some leftover bass strings for those?

>>95927550
thanks. by glaze medium do you mean the vallejo one or another manufacturer?

>>95927623
Yeah I'm using the Vallejo one but I'm sure other brands would be fine too

>>95926500
>basecoat: vallejo model air mud brown
>wash: my flesh wash mix (reikland fleshshade, lahmian medium, TTC flesh wash 1:1:1) or any thin skin wash
>drybrush: cadian fleshtone
I'll shill my flesh wash mix for a minute, it's fucking magical if you're like me and can't paint faces for shit

>>95927461
Vallejo green grey maybe?

>>95926307
I need a closer picture of that female model

batch painting 9 ardboyz and my god are these guys tedious.

I think if I ever had to do it again i would do the warm all black scheme. I hate when straps overlap over each other because they're so flat and fit into tiny areas. yes I'm using contrast paint cause I don't want to paint this much yellow.
did all the skin and clothing, today I went over all the armor with white to prepare it for the contrast paint stage that I'm on right now. Im going to add agrax earthshade to the crevices of the armor and maybe drybrush it lightly. depends how long it starts to take me.

>>95927617
Spoons only now.
Can't use the stove anymore either after I had one while cooking.

>>95927135
Got a lawyer. Basically the situation is as follows.
>Social Security and Disability Determination Services were pretty notorious about having an almost constant hiring freeze
>The result was the average employee having around 15 years of service with the old workers weighing down that average a lot
>The workload was staggering with them constantly having to do more with less
>Covid hits
>Old staff didn't want to take the mandated shot and didn't want to get sick either, so they just straight up retire all at once
>Now the average for work experience is around five years
>Workload gets insane due to staff reduction
>The departments implement work from home practices
>They HAVE to hire new staff and DEI hiring is in full effect by a bunch of HR Karens that infest government
>Result is the majority of new hires are dullards. Who also have at home training with no one really showing them how shit really works. Given the "old staff" is still kinda fresh they wouldn't have been very helpful anyway.
>Government loads them down with a massive backlog
>New hires have a fuck huge turnover rate for those that do good work because of burnout
>Left with dregs who barely function with screaming kids, loud movies, and shit in the background when you do talk to them because they don't give a shit about the job
>They just rubber stamp "denied" on everything because they would have to justify approvals and that's extra work
>Result, every step takes 2-3 years to advance and pretty much the entire department is full of idiots with zero work ethic
>Government just tells them to work harder
>They don't
>Government won't spend money to fix the issue. Won't institute office work because over 50% of staff will just quit if they do.

It's a cluster fuck. Even lawyers are just telling people "You are gonna be fucked for years with no recourse".

>>95927002
it's cheap 3d printed terrain

I just order this stupid looking piece of shit for 20 bucks. This better be good

>>95927956
Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door.
The /cbt/ general is two boards down.

>>95927956
what the fuck is that

which colour looks nicest? I cant decide how to paint my Leviathan Tyranids.

>>95928060
>>95927964
Magnifying glasses ?

>>95928064
da purple

>>95921769 (OP)
Anyone have a paint matcher website, specifically that has a Pro Acryl to Citadel matcher?

>>95928307
Look into previous thread, there are all Stahly's tools. Don't use paint matcher websites, they are all garbage.

>>95928322
>Hex codes, RAL, paint manufacturers recommendations? Nah, I don't believe in that made up shit
>The opinions of some faggot youtuber who still wears a mask alone in his own home so he doesn't contract a virus from himself years after the fact? YES SIR!

>>95928349
(you)
now fuck off back to your retard containment.

>>95923158
>>95923777
>>95924518
>>95924563
>>95925418
Does the ink have to be daler rowney as the recipe implies? There are some liquitex inks that are in good shades and tones that daler rowney does have.
At the very least it won't make mustard gas, right?

>>95928322
Thank you thank you. The issue is that the 7-in-1 pdf link seems to not work anymore. Is there a reason why matching hexcodes doesn't work through a color matcher website? Perhaps the pigment dries different so the colors end up not looking the same as the hexcode implies?

>>95927855
*for science

>>95928362
The main thing to look out for is opacity of the inks.
This is mostly pigment dependent but makes a big difference for how the washes work. I.e. an opaque paint/pigment can change the perceived colour a lot more than a transparent filter.

>>95928429
Yes. I need to see closer details on the shading

>>95928349
lmao really trying too hard there bud

>>95928391
Because those color codes (in better case) come from manufacturers, each takes photos of these paints under different light. And that's the better case; some manufacturers go full retard and will give you the code of paint from the manufacturing process but will never bother to update the code taken from the actual paint irl (there are differences). As a result, plenty of websites combine these codes more or less randomly, and some particularly idiotic literally pick the code from some photo of a mini and never bother to go any further.

Being let down by these shitty websites repeatedly was one of the reasons why I bought Stahly's tools and shared them here. Anyway, here is the comparison tool: https://files.catbox.moe/t2lwgz.pdf

>>95927855
>>95928429
>>95928463

I mean, sure? She's not one of my better models, desu. Haven't even done anything but the flesh gradiant and the lantern.

>>95927855
>>95928429
>>95928463

I mean, sure? She's not one of my better models, desu. Haven't even done anything but the flesh gradiant and the lantern.

>>95927263
Yeah, it's mainly metallic paints and black

>>95927466
>>95927456
Appreciated. No, I don't play, although maybe I will eventually. I'm super slow at painting, I can't imagine having to paint things fast to get some army ready

>how do you make your dudes so dark yet so bright
Well, I think the photo setup helps the most in that sense kek. (photo setup = 2 pieces of black cardboard + desk lamp + galaxy s8 camera)

That aside I do try to make things dark and gritty but really push on colours vibrancy at the same time, I don't like the more typical grimdark™ approach of just relying mainly on washes/enamels etc to make the minis desaturated, somber and dirty. In this case I simply tried to make some edges and more exposed parts of the armour super shiny and intense to provide a nice contrast to the darker areas.

Also here's a couple pics of some more details

>>95928064
Agree with purple

>>95928430
>The main thing to look out for is opacity of the inks.
Wouldn't this technically not matter if the flow aid and ultra matte medium I plan to get will make the paint stain the miniature a lot less than it normally would while shading recessed and raised details?
Either way I think I'm being paranoid about messing it up. I have the distilled water already. Just need to order the containers and ingredients.

I'm gonna be burning through a lot of em4 minis I bought for this source of testing purposes.

>>95928713
An opaque pigment will still affect colour more than a transparent one and imparts it's own hue on the surface you're painting.
Think of it this way, with a transparent pigment you can mainly darken whereas with an opaque one you can lighten the underlying colour. You can make washes from both but the outcomes are different.

Tldr, yes you're overthinking it. Try to enjoy the experimentation as well.

>>95928789
>with a transparent pigment you can mainly darken whereas with an opaque one you can lighten the underlying colour. You can make washes from both but the outcomes are different.
This is actually good information, thank you anon.
>Tldr, yes you're overthinking it.
You're right. I'm also a bit excited for trying this out.
>Try to enjoy the experimentation as well.
I've sometimes spent my little hobby time sometimes just mixing paints looking for a good 50/50 shade mix. I will most likely enjoy this.

>>95928611
Ah, it's her hair. I thought she had a hood on for some reason.

Anyone have tips on how to do cast iron? Trying to paint some empire great cannons and don't think I have a metallic dark enough for them. Would you do matt black and then like a gunmetal drybrush?

>>95929311
Why use metallics at all for something like that?

>>95929311
Gloss varnish over black, do drybrush layers under the black of the chalkiest paint you have for texture.

I started building a Land Raider and man, these older sprues quality kinda suck. Making panels fit and such is being a bit of an hassle, compared to the Impulsor.

At first I thought I'd subassembly so I could paint the interior, but right now I'm thinking of just skipping the interior entirely and seal this thing closed forever, I'm going to have to beat the shit out of this plastic and do some milliput work to get some good results.

>>95929726
Yeah I was building a Rhino not too long ago and you can definitely feel the kits age. For what it's worth it was fairly easy to fill shit since the gaps were mostly between big panels. I ended up gluing it shut as well but that was partly because the custom hatch I used didn't fit as tightly as the one in the kit.

>>95927956
I've got one of these and it's so uncomfortable -hard plastic on my huge ass head- I basically never use it. And even when I did it's usefullness wasn't apparent, since if I can't see it with the naked eye anyway I don't really want to paint it. I'm fine with my minis eyeballs being slightly imperfect, the sun will explode before anyone notices.

Finished another one of these, only got the leader dude left.

>>95928807
Stick with daler rowney paint when you can because their pots are harder to accidentally knock over.

>>95925974
Looks pretty nice, not entirely sold on the icey look though, maybe a little pure white drybrush with some stippling around the edges?

>>95929311
Honestly, the easiest way to do it is to physically add surface texture with plastic cement
https://youtu.be/_9sXcCtg9yw
Alternatively, stipple on texture with a sponge to get the little pock marks, and put a fine highlight along the bottom of the larger ones

>>95929311
either dont use metallics at all or mix black into them

>>95921769 (OP)
Ok, finally getting started. Wish me luck!

Putting a base together for my librarian. I've seen some conflicting opinions. When you use real dirt for bases, do you just put shade and a bit of paint directly over it or do you bother to prime it?

>>95931064
Always prime it.

>>95931064
Duncan put out a video where he just puts paint straight over the base with no primer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5dRjrmIGg

>>95922793
>>95922805

May i ask for some size comparison for those rats anon?

No terrain thread so I'll post my WIP stuff here. Please ignore the symmetrical moss. I was in the groove and didn't notice it until afterwards.

>>95931783
Heres the top.

>>95931790
And the front

>>95929937
I’m sure it is fine to use liquitex inks despite the recipe calling for daler rowney inks.
Just don’t be dumb like me and knock over their little jars.
Cleaning up such a mess sucks.

Holy fuck I wish I had bought an iwata from the start. Been struggling with chineseium airbrushes for the last few months, finally just said fuck it and got an eclipse and it is orders of magnitude better.

2 erads down, just gotta finish the sergeant.

>>95932131
much blur, very unvisable

>>95932118
For me it's a chinkshit airbrush for priming and basecoating, and a nice pistol grip airbrush for detail work

Update on these

Tried my hand at nmm

>>95931783
>>95931790
>>95931810
very nice

>>95931064
Depends on the character of the dirt and the look you're going for, unpainted dirt can often look out of scale though.

The settlement re-enacts the phoenix hunt

>>95929726
Just sand the connection points a little bit and use some clamps. Don't give up anon, I believe in you.

I need to confess my WiP Sin: I half-ass removing any but the most egregious mold lines, and sometimes don't bother at all.

>>95933448
Yeah feels bad. I have a lot of board game minis and the lines are just too much sometimes. I hate when they go up sleeves and cloth and there's no clean way to do it.

Calling it done. Local book store was handing out free models for a painting competition. Wish me luck lads.

>>95933719
Snow on top of the shield is silly, but good luck regardless

>>95933726
Maybe he dropped it. Storm cast can be clumsy too.

>>95933726
The lore is it’s an animated empty suit of armor. The weapons are both ancient frost weapons so they constantly have a frost crust on them. Think it would look better without? There’s not much I could flake it off. Anything else it needs?

>>95932131
Sergeant is painted. Need to do decals but surprised i got 2 finished today.

>>95932163
Im at the mercy of my iphone camera :/

Dark red wash over orange.

>>95927622
>Still need to make some cables for the rotor cannons of voraxii. Or should I just use some leftover bass strings for those?

Cables for what? For Coolant/lubricant/Electricity - bass string should work. Ammo Feed? I would consider using a ziptie for that

Picking some animal heads for a three-headed chimera-type kitbashing, I have a bunch of choices between open mouth (menacing) and closen mouth (idling) so my autism needs to know what would make the most sense.
One open mouth in the center and another idle mouth on each side?

>>95934111
Quick google search shows that 2 open mouth with one closed is the most common followed by 1 open with 2 closed, with 3 closed mouth being the least common.

>>95927461
Def green ones

>>95934041

The ammo feed.

>>95934179
you need like a flat type cables for that, how are you making that?

>>95934041
>>95934179

Should also note that the bass string I tried didn't work well due to it's weight. I'll try the ziptie, or just a usb cable, those should be easier to work with. Thanks!

>>95934191

This could work?

>>95934199
Cable ties are Ridgid as fuck, prob GS it, get the shape right, wait till it's hard, then carve it square

I made too much epoxy... Again...

>>95922207
This face is unreal.

>>95934549
you could have some spare molds for rocks, debris or random stuff that can work even if half filled to use leftover epoxy

i fill some skulls, or make small mushroom tops

>>95934549
Always make half of what you're expecting to use (it's probably still going to be too much), this also applies to GS, Milliput etc.

>>95934549
Tried freezing excess? It didn't work in my case but other anons says it worked for them, won't hurt to try.

Also, I recently had to throw away this white "super fine" Milliput that I only opened and used once because mom wanted her bath fixed - despite it being held in airtight bag, one component completely solidfied on its own. So better use up what you have instead of letting it waste I guess.

>>95934940
I don't have a freezer thoughbeit
Also over the years I used a full box of white milliput and black milliput, no issues, black was my favorite because of how hard it is (no pun intended), right now I'm trying out the "classic" one that is brown/yellow, I think it's less interesting for models, too rough looking.

>>95931064
how are you supposed to glue the mini to the base when you've covered all the plastic.

>>95935296
Super glue as opposed to plastic glue.

Anyone have problem with fluorescent paint dry on the wet palette? How do i thin this stuff anyway? It’s sticky, goey and not smooth at all

>>95934320

Yeah, I tried it, very hard to make it work with miniatures, same with bass strings. I guess I have to use green stuff and make the pattern with a comb, or use some leftover USB cable. The issue with the latter is that it would be all smooth.

>>95935476
I don't have problems with anything ever

Working on crossbowmen

>>95931711
Sure, what do you want to compare them against?

>>95935296
>>95935346
You put tge mini on the base first, duh.
Superglue onto a finished base is a pathetic weak hold. If you're going to do it backwards you have to pin.

>>95933448
I forgive you

>>95933448
Here's mine: I don't fill gaps that I know won't be visible and half-ass the rest. I take pictures that I post here from angles that will hide that.

>>95934549
>>95934614
I tend to make 'table filler'; stuff like loaves of bread, bowls, fruit, plates, stuff that helps set a scene but I'd never buy.
Sandbags and rocks are good too. I like the idea of a pressmold for skulls, I might make one.

>>95932805
The helmet?
I'm flip flopping between it looking like stone vs metal
I don't do NMM so I don't have any advice unfortunately

Anyone know much about water effects?
I've tried Woodland Scenics water but it dries up so much, it leaves the sandtexture so it looks like it's just gloss varnish.

I don't want to fuck with resin for such tiny bases. Knowing my luck, I'll fuck it up and get resin allergy.

>>95935986
resin
>b-buh I...
resin.

>>95933448
Guess I’ll confess too.
I only care to basecoat and wash the model for semi decent tabletop quality. Which is much more effort than most wargamers these days.

>>95935986
I've had decent success with Scale75 water thingy. It's acrylic but levels properly and the result looks pretty nice

>>95935993
just give yourself a little bit of skin cancer and allergy
just a little bit bro

>>95936031
wear gloves and a respirator if you're this much of a sissy lil bitch that you're scared of coming into contact with a tiny drop of resin for less than a minute

>>95933448
I paint very well but my friends ask me to do their minis for them and I purposely half ass them as not to be asked again.

>>95936057
Why not just turn them down right off the bat and save yourself the trouble

>>95936057
Why not ask for money?

>>95936075
>>95936104
Im a push over and I'm too nice to say no.

>>95935993
Does UV work as well as 2 part?

My Blood Angels jump pack boys.

>>95936199
good god these poses look awful

>>95936215
Yeah the correct way to do assault marines is to put jump packs on regular marines.

>>95936215
I also hate that all the Jump Pack Intercessors are playing the 41st millennium version of "the floor is lava", but >>95936199 are gorgeous.

There's only one kit with "proper" jump pack equipment* and Mk X Tacticus Armour. The only way to make a ten-man squad is to take two identical five man squads. If you don't convert them at least a little bit, then you'll have two of each guy leaping off the exact same busted concrete ruin jutting up from the base. I grabbed some bitz from the OOP Firstborn Assault Squad, converted one guy to be running on the ground, and even used a piece of bark I got from a Texas Live Oak to make all ten models distinctive.

It lessens the effect a little bit, but it makes me wish even more that GW would sell jumping smoke trails like the ones CGL (and legions of ladz with 3D printers out there) makes for Battletech.

* = Yes, you could put jump packs on bog-standard Intercessors, but Mk X Tacticus models with jump packs trade their extra hip armour for boot-mounted thrusters and webbing on the thighs for carrying extra grenades and magazines.

>>95933407
Too late, it's sealed forever

>>95934558
You're unreal

>>95936199
Looking good!

>>95936215
I think the middle one is the worst offender pose wise, rest is not that bad

>>95921971
I cut that lion's nuts off one time

>>95922207
I'm finally starting to believe that the reason GW catalogs look like fischer price ads is not because of the sculpts, but because of the paintjobs. This is some good shit.

>>95922793
Awesome rats, the black fur on the gutter runner is the coolest part. Good stuff

>>95936199
>>95936215
Yeah, modern GW's obsession in making every single flying unit perch on rubble with a single foot's tiptoes is really awful. It makes almost all flying sculpts of theirs terrible. Just use the fucking flying bases if you want to portray flying units instead of retarded tiptoeing.

>>95937128
What is even wrong in just making them stand on the ground? Are the huge fucking jump packs on their backs not enough to sell what type of unit they are or something?

>>95936199
Nice Paintjobs on horrible miniatures. One such pose in a big squad of 15 would be okay i guess, but not every single marine is balancing on the tip of his toes. It is so awful.
Love the roses on the basing bits tho. It fits the BA theme.

currently made heavy cav knights and men-at-arms of the early 1400's

I'll be trying to turn this Alpharius recast into a snake-headed Sorcerer in Terminator armor. Wish me luck.

My dirt base is lifting off the base after the glue dried. This happened to me before but I assumed it was because I had watered down the school glue and it contracted too much. This time I just slathered the whole top of the base in glue and threw the dirt on, shook off the excess, and wiped the rim. Is this just a normal thing for using PVA glue to make a real dirt base or am I missing something here?

>>95937905
I've never had this happen to me before.
Heres what I do.
Slather pva with a few drops of water onto base, pour basing materials on it, shake of excess, let dry, drop a 50/50 water and isopropyl mix onto the basing material to break surface tension, drop watered downed pva onto the base so that spreads over all the material.
It could be there's some kind of gunk on your base stopping the glue from adhering to it.

>>95937905
I've had this, peel the whole thing off and superglue the disk of pva+sand back on.

>>95937905
you have to put a top coat of glue to seal it all together.

Slowly but steady.

>>95938222
Really nice, you've been at him for a while though lol

Nearly finished my Beastlord. Waiting for some basing materials.

Do I need to use anything special to clean ABS resin?
Can I just use dish soap like recast/forgeworld resin?

>>95938713
>ABS resin
ABS-like resin, it's not actually ABS and "like" is a very generous descriptor.

>>95938533
I like the broken horn wound

>>95938713
cured? any cured resin is mostly inert chemicaly so yeah same precautions as cast resin

>>95938722
Yeah, ABS-like.
>>95938777
Yeah, cured. Cool, I'll give the models a dip and scrub.

Sometimes when I apply washes to models they turn out super shiny, I'm definitely not using gloss versions of the washes, any idea why this might be happening?

>>95938849
You might've not shaken them enough. I think the matte medium tends to flow to the bottom so you need to really go at it to make sure it's properly mixed.

>>95938126
That's what I did before, but it's damn annoying to have to do it again with this base
>>95938138
Do you do it while it's still wet?

>>95938849
Is it Agrax Earthshade? Lissen ta >>95938895. You have to shake them up into an emulsion, or this will happen. If yer bottle has sat too long, shaking might not even be enough. I was unable to salvage mine even after scraping the inside of the bottle with a wooden stirstick. I ended up buying a new one, which works fine.

... and yes, GW, don't try to tell me it's the same amount of paint in the bottle. I was around when the bottle was taller *and* larger.

>>95938984
>Is it Agrax Earthshade?
Yeah. Guess that explains that then, thanks for the info guys.

>>95938970
Better now than a year from now at the store in a rush before playing because your entire blood bowl team separated from their bases that way.

>>95932519
I like 'em

>>95938970
I wait for it to dry. If spreading glue on it just picks up all the material, water down PVA and put it in a spray bottle.

Amazon's description of this stuff is sending me mixed signals as to what exactly it is. Would anyone happen to know if nicpro airbrush thinner has flow improver in it like Golden's or Army Painter's mediums?

Do reaper Bones figures need any special treatment? I've seen mixed signals online as to if they need to be primed or if they can be done straight out of the box. The back says not to spray prime but I don't trust that entirely.

>>95939637
They are supposed to be painted with Reaper paints
If you prime them with a rattle can they end up tacky as if it hasn't dried

Nearly done with weathering the Dunerider. Just a final layer of grime and dust is left, then some light highlights and metallics.

>>95940048
nice and tasteful weathering

>>95937905
I used to have that happen, now I scratch up the base with a knife to create something for the glue to grip as it dries. Then I switched to some kind of artists gel that has fine sand in it. It dries like some kind of glasslike plastic that glues itself to anything.

>>95940113
How much glue do you use? I may have used too much looking back. I did just apply some to the sides and add more dirt to try and bring it all together and solidify it.

>>95921769 (OP)
/wip/ i come seeking your input/opinion/advice
For the exhaust of my plasma engine thing, should i do a red hot yellow and orange glow effect, or a blue glow to match the plasma coils?

Ever had a disaster mini /WIP/?
where you fucked up and can't fix it despite your best efforts.

This is my latest one, I was going for a Lo Pan type of deal but ruined his face and spent the past hour trying to fix it to no avail.
At least it looks ok in person but it's still a big disappointment.

>>95940636
>Ever had a disaster mini /WIP/?
>where you fucked up and can't fix it despite your best efforts.
All the time, it makes me put projects on hold and give up. I'll get over it one day This is a lie

>>95940593
Additional question since I'm already posting
I plan on adding some bright neon graffiti to sell the effect that this boat was recently looted from a power station in the necromunda sump sea, but that will be my last layer. Before i get to that step, i feel like my "default factory" paint scheme is a bit too muddled and samey. What can i do to bring in some contrast? I dont want to change the oozing brown grime effect under the handrails to bright green, that will make it far too nurgley but i dont know what else i could do and still have it look cohesive

>>95940636
I feel like you've seen people post pictures with black backgrounds and just completely missed the point of what they are doing and why they are doing with this. Did you just turn the lights off and shine a torch at your mini? I can't see fucking anything with how you've lit that picture.

>Prime minis with black
>take picture with phone
>Follow the tiny blurry hightlight
Highlight is a pain in the ass. Why do i need to highlighting tiny miniature again?

>>95940981
You don't, but if you're not going to bother trying to do well to better your skills then don't post here.

>splurged on four boxes last week.
>went to store them for eventual assembly and painting.
>discovered four other boxes i had bought and done the same with.
Pray for me friends. I journey tame my pile of shame.

>>95941085
>craft paints
Based.

Finished a couple of the 10th anniversary survivors today

>>95941115
>>95941118
Skills I'll never achieve..... good job anon!.

>>95927370
>>95927378
For now, but not painting related lol.

>>95941129
You can get to that level fine. It looks like he's just doing the usual basecoat, wash and highlight with probably with a drybrush. And a bit of blending looks like. I think he's just good at keeping with a colour scheme and aesthetic. Also very good at photography.

>>95941129
It's 90% drybrushing, anon. Trust me I'm not that technically advanced of a painter - color choice, drybrushing and washes are huge cheat codes.

>>95929311
Start with a really dark blue like indigo, or a dark blue and some black. Mix your silver metallic 50:50 with the base color and just stipple the top half of the cannon. Stipple silver in a couple spots for highlights.

>>95941155
Oh I have that lady on the right. How was the gap sealing for you? I keep holding off painting her because I need to learn how to seal big gaps because she's got some bad ones where the legs meet the boots.

>>95936474
>GW: "Your unit can only have what comes in the kit."
>Me: "That doesn't make sense. Death Company on foot can take a Thunder Hammer because it's in the Assault Intercessors kit, but can't if they have jump packs because there isn't one in that kit?"
>GW: "Exactly!"

Death Company with Eviscerators get to keep their heavy bolt pistols, but the Eviscerator is a two-handed weapon. The only Eviscerator bit for Blood Angels comes on the Blood Angels upgrade sprue, yet the upgrade sprue does not also come with a holstered heavy bolt pistol to go along with it.

If I'm only supposed to arm my models with what comes in the kit, why do I have to rob my Bladeguard Veterans kit to get holstered heavy bolt pistols for my Eviscerator guys?

>>95941193
Why are you playing 40k? You know that it's just a gateway product to real miniature gaming and everyone who progresses from it to something good regrets ever having paid into it along the way, right?

>>95941164
I think I have a later version because I don't remember any gaps or the model looking like that when it was unpainted.

In general though I have just dealt with gaps using comically tiny amounts of green stuff filler in the joins and it's mostly worked out.

>>95941193
Anon anon anon... you simply need to buy more boxes.

>>95941205
I bought mine as part of one of their pinups of death sets last year. If yours came with the boardgame itself, might be different. Not sure, I don't own the boardgame. Way too pricey when I don't like co-op boardgames.

>>95941203
Not him, but depending on where you live, it can be the only wargame in the city or town and it's very hard to convince people to try something else. It's like the Catan or monopoly of wargames in that people don't play boardgames, they play catan and have no interest in trying anything else. He might just be dumb and wanted to play 40k though.

Farl Kranz is almost done. His mount still needs some work though

>>95941217
Yes, I think she came in the game box along with the neko twilight knight. The earlier sculpts I have in the tiny little boxes are both smaller and often more awkward to assemble in my experience

>>95941224
I don't get the draw of spending 8-10 hours for each player to have three turns.
Oh and everyone has an unpainted grey army because if they try to paint them the rules edition will change by the time they finish.

>>95941193
3d printing

I'm calling these plague marines finished

Been working on some traitor guard in my space marine burn out.

Really happy with this tank and the "big titted milf on top" as my buddy calls her.

>>95921769 (OP)
Going for a lava themed dude. The facemask will the same color scheme as the robes. Don't know what color to make the gems on the helmet though. Maybe green or blue. The eyes will match.

>>95941575
>>95941580
Looks great. That's a wargame exclusive tank and commander, isn't it?

>>95941584
Yeah the tank and tank commander is.

I've had her printed for fucking yonks and never got around to painting her.

I'm working on some of his chaos sisters at the moment.

>>95941575
Booby. I wish there were more 3D printing companies in Australia doing stuff like this. It's too expensive to ship them all from Europe where the bulk seem to be. I also don't want to huff resin printer fumes in my tiny apartment.

>>95941597
I'm down under brother. Sniff the fumes like the boongs sniff the petrol.

The titty sorcerous got to finish the base (only photo I got. Too far away)

Eventually going to add these all into my Slaanesh themed traitor guard or EC.

>>95941630
Proof you're not in Australia. The picture would be upside down if you were.

>>95941338
Im calling them cool

Meh

>>95938396
I know, but I'm jumping around with like 4 different projects.
Also I have a job, sad I know

What's the trick to turn stick fragments into a straight looking spear/staff?
Position them on tape, then make little balls of epoxy joints, then sand them?

I need a mask for priming/resin filing, what kind of mask do I need? Because clearly I'm fucking myself over using leftover covid masks

>>95940076
Thank you, anon!

>>95942396
p100 unless you're spraying lacquers indoors or working with resin fumes and not just dust

>>95938222
What's your highest highlight for that green? I've got some gobbo stuff coming up, and that's pretty much as high as I want to go with their green.

>>95942495
Alright I'm in EU so I'm ordering a GVS SPR669 that comes with A2P3 filters

>>95942495
>unless you're spraying lacquers
What if I do?

>>95942583
NTA but I'm the one he was replying to and from my research there are types of filters that do dust only and some that do both dust and organic vapors and such.

>>95942583
Then whatever’s rated for VOCs such as a2p3 and the like

>>95942596
My dad works at nintendo and told me you needed that kind of filter for primer vapors as well. He told me my "primer naps" weren't supposed to happen?

>>95942637
Stop using lacquer primers indoors then or mask up

>>95942644
No just regular citadel primers.

>>95942649
>rattle cans
Same shit as lacquers, its acrylic paint in a solvent based medium, you arent spraying aerosolized water with paint onto your minis

>>95938222
Ak pistachio, more yellow than green

>>95942753
>>95942561

I am painting a small squidward miniature that I printed for somebody.

Issue is that I've never seen a paint the color of squidward's skin. So what two colors should I mix to get this weird grey?

>>95942796
That's teal with a bunch of white.

>>95942056
>Aladdin IV: Jafar May Need Glasses

>>95942796
Whichever green you see used for oxidized bronze or ghosts.

>>95942796
I think he's supposed to be Seafoam Green, he also changes in how green/blue he is by the season. If you want an older season Squidward, paint him in duller more muted green/blue colors.

earth, thief -

>>95934320

Like so?

>>95941582
Green or yellow

>>95944229
>Vorax
Fuck yeah

>>95936199
>>95936714
>I think the middle one is the worst offender pose wise
Maybe it the angle, Here he looks better, I just don't want himm to llook like he shooting next guy in group.

I am losing my mind trying to glue a resin mini's hand. It's a GW style arm + bit of hand and rest of hand grabbing the shaft of the weapon and the surface is simply too small for super glue to work there. Any tips? I fear it might even be too small for pinning.
What do you guys do when something just does not want to fucking glue together?

>>95945331
add glue, sprinkle baking soda on glue, done

i would also pin it

>>95945348
I don't think I can pin it, my drill (I use it for drilling bolter heads so you get an idea of the size) would just destroy everything I'm afraid.
What about putting a bit of putty to hold it together?

>>95945348
>sprinkle baking soda on glue, done
What does this do?

>>95945602
>What does this do?
Baking soda reacts chemically with cyanoacrylate ("super") glue to quickly form a hard plastic-like substance. It's not the cleanest, but you can file or sand it down later. It's good for filling tiny gaps or in situations where you need your super glue to dry before your fingers get tired of holding the parts together.

>>95945602
nta but its a catalyst that makes the superglue reaction happen almost instantly, and adds a shit load of grit into the join and surface area so its strong as hell. Try it not on a model first because it's pretty unsightly at the join if you smother it in soda.

>>95945459
you should be able to pin a space marine hand with a 1mm drill bit

>>95944326
I’ll try yellow and report back

>>95945913
But what do I pin it with? A paperclip is probably too thick.

>>95946057
small paperclips may be thin enough, sewing pins maybe, however brass rods are the usual hobby supply for pining you can get them in various sizes, you can also buy welding rods of apropiate size wich are cheaper, personaly i use copper wire salvaged from motors and transfomers

>>95946091
I'll give it a try. I'm going to need a new drill bit but I'll go check tomorrow.

>>95946233
get this, they are brittle but sharp as all fuck, you can even use them with your fingers on plastic, also they come in .1mm increments

>>95946289
forgot to addd, search for 'pcb drill bit'

>>95946289
Noted, thanks for everything anon.

Do I have to thin two thin coats Yellow Glaze or can I apply it straight from the bottle?

>>95946701
Depends on what you're doing. On the tools you're using. On the paint you're using. On the primer you applied, etc. Give us more details.

>>95946701
I dunno if you mean glazing yellow or if it's a paint called yellow glaze, but if you want to glaze, you need to do a dozen microscopic coats. The thinner it is, the smoother the transition is.

>>95946057
>But what do I pin it with? A paperclip is probably too thick.
In addition to what hte other anons are suggesting, look up "florist's wire". It's very thin and extremely cheap - like, under $5 for 300 yards - and you can use it for a bunch of stuff. Sculpting and tree armatures, reinforcing plaster casts, even pinning. It gets stiffer if you twist 2-3 strands together.

>>95946765
I want to glaze the model after highlighting with nurgling green, base coated with plaguebearer flesh contrast and zenithal primed with wraith bone over deathguard green.
I want the yellow to help the green pop a bit.
>>95946773
There's a specific paint called yellow glaze in the two thin coats line.

How do you properly use shades on metallics? Feels like every time I try nuln oil on my plate armor it pools more obviously than shades usually do.

>>95946815
The best tool for what you want to do would be an ink. Or at least an airbrush.

>>95946815
Just play with it and find out. Paint a throw away model or a base or something in the colours you want and test it.

>>95946985
A plastic spoon.

>>95947108
Real. Apparently we all have a plastic spoon in our brains now. Those of us in this head probably have at least 2 from the amount of plastics we huff. So we just need to work out how to get those out to use.

>>95947122
No I only use resin.

what do u think of the color choice on my elfs so far tiji. also what hair colors should I use idk other than blonde and ginger

How do you guys transport your minis? I'm looking for a case I can take on the train and on flights (probably inside a larger checked luggage bag).

Is foam going to fuck up the paint and bend all the plastic spears while airport staff drop kick my luggage onto the conveyer belt? Are magnets the only way? How much did you guys pay for yours, any recs?

Not the right thread, but I don't want to make one.

Got a little more detail work done while it was too hot to do anything else. This feels like the limit of my current ability. There's still a bit to finish (the sword hilt and sigil, the missing pauldron, and maybe some more highlights on the backpack), but this is close to what he'll look like when I'm done.
What could I do to improve from here? What's the best and worst parts?

The power packs were that cream colored plastic and were sold separately, right?

Two more today. Almost done with all my assembled model backlog.

>>95947209
>The power packs were that cream colored plastic and were sold separately, right?
They sold both metal and plastic backpacks. Originally the metal blisters came with metal packs. You're more likely to see a plastic pack these days because more people bought shitloads of RTB-01. There are other, rarer backpacks like the Medic and Radio pack as well.

>>95947515
>>95947518
Quite like these, well done

Dwarfu WIP

My first real attempt at glazing skin, it's going better and faster than I expected.

>>95947851
Back that bitch up. I just a few centimeters further away and that'll hide a lot of the crusty texture.

>>95947851
Hello Brapfag. Its been a while. How are you?

>>95947178
GW cases are a bit expensive but also sturdy as hell. The foam inserts that come with them are good unless your minis have a ton of thin spikey bits sticking in all directions i.e. dark eldar. It's also easy to fit a lock/chain into it by drilling two holes.

>>95947178
>https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007850747021.html
unless you want to get into custom expensive stuff look for something like this, the foam is precut into 'pixels' that you can break off to make the general shape or your models, it's a destructive process so the shape you break off is the one you get, you can't later restore it to make another one
they usually have a thin full layer of foam at the bottom, the pixel matrix and another layer on the lid

picrel is from aliexpress

>>95947178
I buy sterilite/nationally made plastic containers from the grocery store and buy 1" foam rolls from Amazon or a craft store. I cut the foam to fit and layer foam on models on foam. My average container cost is sub 10 bucks. If you want it cheaper you can use cardboard boxes.

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