Work in Progress, "Australian Cum Coach" 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o

>Previous Threads:
>>96076966
>>96043838
>>96021179
>>95999059

I know it’a far quicker to use a torn up sponge to add distress texturing, but I find it to be messy and inconsistent in quality (sometimes too much paint, too little, kind of runny, etc.). Manually applying it may take ages but the end result simply looks more consistent.

Time to slowly batch paint the first level of highlights, then second level and finally little spots of Rhinox Hide for the damage. Can’t wait to get back to my Orks after this detour into Space Marines.

>>96107065
Very crisp so far

House Taranis Armigers nearing completion. Just gonna matte down the finish and add some detail to the crisis suit abd call it done.

>>96107143
I'm not big on knights but these look great

>>96107143

Gorgeous checker pattern! Was this all done by hand?

>>96107143
I love this

>>96107173
>>96107252
>>96107267
Cheers.

The patterns were done using tamiya masking tape, and an airbrush. Bit of clean up after by hand.

Ordering the model for the year. Anything else I should pick up while I'm at it? I need a better bright gold than Liberator because it's shit. I may also grab a cracked earth texture paste just because I have no idea how to otherwise do that effect. Any recommendation on one in particular?

>>96106935 (OP)
Done with the whole coat and also finished the scarf. Will continue chipping at the shirt next. Will keep it simple, white.

>>96107625
I don't like this sculpt, like, at all but your paintjob is fantastic

Batch painting 13 ratos and it‘s a chore, can’t imagine doing 40 or 60 of them.

>>96106935 (OP)
>>96103057
>>96103069
Paprika oxidizes dark brown after a few years, you're better off with a proper pigment like a pastel crayon or chalks

>>96104400
>Anybody tried real blood as an effect on models? Was thinking of cutting open my hand for my new WE box.
Stop that. This shit is the perfect color. You have to layer it a little to get best results, and varnish after. But every time I paint with it and spill any my wife freaks out because she thinks I got hurt.

>>96107849
I love fountain pen inks, some real untapped hobby goodness there. A lot of shortcomings too, but might be fun to experiment with.

>>96109250

>>96107143
Pretty cool, did you paint the checkers board by hand or found some more humane workaround?

Help, I need the tan version of this color but it clearly isn't what vallejo says it is.

>>96109948
Werent luftwaffe uniforms navy?

>>96109963
No, they were air force.

>>96109963
There were a few colours.

Totally new to mini painting and I want to know if I would be able to produce solid results by priming a mini and then aggressively drybrushing multiple lighter layers onto it to build up color and shading and contrast. Then touch up some edges, paint weapons and pauldrons, and nice and easy done quickly.

>>96110474
Yeah, depends on the model, but that's how a lot of people do army painting. It's kind of like a ghetto airbrush method. It'll be good enough for army painting if you just want to get lots out fast. Not good enough for display painting, so depends what you want.

>>96110489
I’ve got a whole box set of marines I want to get to the table and play with friends without having a grey tide
As long as it looks pretty good I’ll be happy, I’m not looking to win tournaments I just want to learn fundamentals and put out a bunch of minis in less than a few months

>>96110543
Yeah easy. A common method is that you drybrush from black or grey up to white getting lighter with each layer so you have basically a greyscale model. Then you put contrast paints which are very transparent over the top, so you get easy shading and highlights. You could also just do it with colours directly. You'll be able to find a lot of videos on how to do it online, especially for marines.

Anyone have a good recommendation for where to get decent, pure flat surface large bases? I want to do a black/gold version of that marbling meme for fulgrims base but I feel like the standard GW textured base would be shit. I feel like this should be an easy item to find with printers so common, but I dont think im using the right words to search

>>96110699
You can just sand the normal lumpy ones. Or maybe use a texture paste or some spackle and sand that. I'm sure you can find flat ones somewhere though.

With hindsight the slaanesh head might've been a mistake and there are a few other fuckups. Don't usually paint shit as big as this though so still reasonably happy.

>>96110968
It's good

Does flow aid act as an acrylic retarder? Didn’t someone say something akin to that here?

>>96104550
I don't either. I don't even get how it's legal. Sure, I could trust each individual to handle resin safely, but I'm not stupid and I'm not going to. How many people just dump resin into the sink? That resin will go to the water treatment system and then shipped back to our drinking water. It's deranged

>>96111518
with any luck that water will be exposed to the sun for a while before you drink it again, so it will only fuck with any other wildlife in the way

Calling this guy done.
Way too much work for 1/5 of a unit.
Just endless detail.

>>96111579
Looks great though. I look at Gobbapalooza like some niggaz look at busts. Mine are still in a drawer.

painted a small blue mech.

>>96111730

>>96110968
It's nice. My only bitchy criticism would be the
purple + blue + green and gold + grey metal being a bit too many colors.

>>96111579
You're the guy who complained about procrastinating his minis right? Congrats

>>96111730
Pretty cool, anon.

>>96110968
Yeah the blue makes me instantly think of tzeentch so that slaanesh head feels out of place. It still looks pretty good though
>>96111579
I don't know if you were going for it deliberately but it has this comic book/cel shaded? feel and it looks very nice
>>96111730
Pleasant colors and pretty clean

>>96111747
I think it's a model that's always gonna look straight up better with black armour, and just fundamentally isn't that well suited to tzeentch/tksons but it is what it is. Didn't really see any proxies and fucking about with conversions isn't really my thing.

>>96111776
It's not as bad as you make it sound, don't worry.
My nitpick would be fully fixed by making the big spaulder and canon blue, and the runes on the sword the same bordeaux hue as the wings.

I decided after some Feedback to rework the NMM to better reflect the surroundings in the scene I'm planning. Made it more shiny. Still not finished, but I think it looks much better.

>>96111518
Reminds me of one guy at work, in research institute of all places - one day whole building had to be evacuated because resin container for his printer fell on the floor and spilled, he tried to clean it with paper towels and only after hour or something people on lower floors noticed strange smell and called OSH. It was kinda funny to watch him later insist to others and OSH inspector that there is absolutely no risk involved but I had to calm down one female coworker that exposure was short enough that her headache is only temporary.

>>96111749
Yea that´s me. I think im gonna force myelf to finish some of the older projects i have going on.
On top of my head i have like 5+ projects jst half finished.

>>96111775
>comic book/cel shaded?
I hear this quite often but there is no conscious effort towards it. I think its just because i gravitate towards bright colors and stark contrasts.

>>96107065
nailing the comic book look so far

>>96111998
I think he's just going for eavy metal

Any experience with Vallejo Tropical water in here? I can find jack shit on that one in particular on google. What shade does it even dry to?

I hope I did it right this time. What do you think? Or should be more "grounded" aka more khaki/bronze? Have some tufts in washed out yellow and dried green shades ready.

>>96112143
I really dig the ones that have the metal floor showing through. Yellow/cream shades look good too and the rocks don't feel out of place. I'd say it's good to go

>>96112151
Good to hear. I kinda screwed up test pieces before. Or how one that had to be glued to the base right away due to some problems with feet have more orange ground than her coat would suggest.

If anyone want to know - metal floor was made with paper plant tray (it had that tiny pattern similar to metal floor) painted with metallic steel and smeared over with watered down sand terrain paste.

Working on a demon prince for my Khorne army. I'm confident he'll look cool when I'm done, but fuck me there's a lot of metallic trim to work through.

About red desert variant - do you think that some green (not vibrant green but rather weathered green) tufs would fit there or they should be left barren?

>ended up buying this whole batch for 30 bucks
I love the second-hand market so much it's unreal
I don't even know how I'm gonna use half of these to be fair, I'm not nearly creative enough to use red ink

>>96107825
I was thinking of picking up a big box of ratos and giving each one a slightly different fur colour but I think I'd end up killing myself before I'm even halfway done

>>96112226
is taht head from the kit?

>>96112226
Should have primed metallic.

>>96112226
That looks sick!

A bit more progress on my dragon piece. Finished the horns and did the eyes. I think all that's left is the rest of the mouth/teeth, the ice and I might bring the blue highlight up a bit. Also
>Paint left eye perfectly how I want it first time
>Go to do the right eye
>Fuck up the pupil
>Repaint the colours over it
>Fuck up the pupil
>Repeat 6 more times

>>96112143
They look great as a neutral base for models. Don't pollute them with tufts and other bullshit.

>>96112268
Those old army painter bottle are complete garbage I had that oak brown and it was straight up unusable.

>>96112143
looks great
all i would add is a skull to a couple of them

>>96106935 (OP)
Currently working on some heretics for Trench Crusade.

working on this snipa boy. Gonna start layering over the washed areas tomorrow. what colors should I add to the gun to make it a little more interesting?

>>96112735
I've only really tested the metal + rust so far and they seem ok-ish, while tanned flesh looks a bit odd
Unfortunately I couldn't be picky, whole thing was on sale together

>>96112790
Their models look really sick, but getting them printed is a real issue for us anons who live in bumfuckville
Really tidy job so far, anon

>>96112762
he's not doing warhammer

>>96112855
also just did this heretic but I forgot about the still-drying microsol on his decal when I varnished him and a bunch of other orks. It frosted but it doesnt bother me much.

>>96112866
Well, he should, this is a Warhammer thread.

This a good lava blade?

>>96112898
imo it needs more yellow, less white and it should be inverted, inner parts should be bright and edges darker, the heat comes from the inside and its what makes it glow

>>96112898
Is he wearing blue jeans? Based

>>96112866
oh, an animal skull then, like a cow

>>96112880
you are in wip not wfg

>>96112728
Really? Because I prepared some beforehand...

>>96113066
I agree with that anon, they don't need it. No reason to over do it.

>>96112957
This is a previous attempt to do hot center/colder edges

>>96112978
A very happy accident, thank you for the idea!

WIP of a Sammeal proxy/Ravenwing Praetor on Jetbike (now illegal), do you guys think the back banner is too much? Debating it still.

>>96112264
The barren look is cool, like the surface of Mars. I feel grass tufts would detract from that.

I'm torn if I should keep the red or not, feel like it might be too many colors with the green cloth and brass trimming.

>>96113371
lots of colours is good

>>96113371
No it's the right amount ~60/30/10
Which flavour of Dark Angels is this?

>>96113263
reading while driving is bad

>spend 18 months working abroad
>come home
>finally sit down to do some hobbying
>paints haven't been touched in almost 2 years
>all 24 of my GW Citadel paints are rock solid in their pots, completely dried up
>all of my Vallejo, Army Painter, and even a few Green Stuff World paints are as good as the day I bought them

>>96113263
The banner is absolutely stupid like that, its a big sail that will create massive amount of drag that either either: rip the banner to to shreds, snap the banners pole, or if the banner somehow magically withstands the resistance, will slow down the bike

>>96113272
Okay then, since everyone says no tufts, O guess I will leave them as they are. Whole two days of work.

And here are few guys who had to be glued already due to their poses.

But still don't know what to do with these two - if one on left should be glued already to his wooden base and what should the guy on right receive to make it fitting to his colors and rooftop he stands on.

>>96113526
Cool work anon, what minis are you gonna put on them?

>>96113426
>>96113429
Thanks for the input!
Started with the Indomitus box and wasn't sure what chapter to play, looked around online and thought dawnstone made for a nice fairly neutral color for the armor, kept going with that. Guess it could work as risen dark angels, with the black heresy armor being brighter now that they've "stepped into the light"?

We did it /wip/! Rejoice?

>>96113452
Fake news.

>>96113559
My recently finished Kestrel Colonial Force and Shindenbutai groups. Too bad that my local Infinity scene organise games solely via Facebook group and I'm too scared to actually use it (at least made account and it was not automatically deleted) so they most likely never see actual game.

>>96113459
No banner it is!

>>96113692
Alright.

>>96113452
Working as intended.

>>96113724
Were they left in the sun or something? I have citadel pots that are like 5 years old.
Never had one dry up on me.

>>96113745
Do you use them and reshake them every so often or do you let them sit for two years untouched?

>>96113796
Pretty sure there is at least a couple colors that I don't touch for 2 years at a time.
Maybe it's an issue with lid-closing.

>>96113796
nta, no, i have working pots that had been sitting for more than 8 years, the rubber citadel pots actually seal very well if you dont let them gunk up to all fuck
i even have some old flip tops in working order

>>96113745
>I have citadel pots that are like 5 years old.
I have classic citadel pots that are old enough to drink and are still perfectly brushable. I also have newer citadel pots that dried out in 2 years despite closing them carefully, maybe because I forgot to seal them hermetically or something. The relative shittiness of new generations' lids is widely known.

>>96113693
>I'm too scared
I've seen you post that at least a dozen times. Get therapy. I'm not even shitposting. Seriously dude, go visit a professional psychologist or something.

>>96113526
Some very small flock or green pigments to represent lichen and the like would go well, but the bases can be fine as they are too.

just got ak satin varnish and this thing is thick, how much do you guys thin it for airbrushing? i think im going 1:1 with satin and ultramatt too

>>96114154
I do 1:1 with a thinner:flow improver mix(8:2)

>>96114072
I tried, didn't work. Conclusion was "just do it" and despite understanding situation and how irrational it is to be so afraid, it's like inner blockage that cannot be lifted.

>>96113371
I like this. Better than the estabilished color schemes. The off-white company is too hard to paint (decently, at least) and the teal-green dark angels are kinda boring.

ill leave this here, for anyone that was wondering (as i was) how satin is satin varnish

>>96114176
will do, thx

>>96114179
See a psychiatrist, not a psychologist then

>>96114179
im no brainologist but start small, start talking with someone, commit to nothing, ghost them if needed, after some time doing that meet them, maybe at a store to talk about models or something, then set up a game and so on
if you can't even get past that you may need to visualize and roleplay all that with a professional, and then get to the real thing

>>96114179
>therapy
lol lmao even
Start lifting weights.

>>96114179
Protip, sometimes it helps to fake it till you make it. You WILL feel fake and wrong, but you'll get some counter-arguments for your brain that you did that and no disaster/murder/rape resulted. It gets better the more such inner arguments you have, but never perfect, don't count on it ever going away entirely.

>>96114807
kek, that might actually help

>>96114179
where do you live, anyway?
just the country if you fear for your anal chastity

>>96114807
I fail to see how that would help.

>>96114854
>>96114621
The worst part is - I already managed to reach the point of approaching and playing with random people on open board games evenings or ask people for photo at conventions (including being "officially approved" photographer) without any misunderstandings or conflicts and somehow still have this inner block. Of course, you can say these are different situations (playing with random people that already gathered at place for same purpose or how photography feel more like professional than private interaction) but still.

Thanks for good word anyway.

>>96112264
>>96113526
These look excellent. How'd you do them? I'm guessing a texture paste and varying sizes of rocks glued on. I really need to sort my rocks by size.

>>96115127
Thanks. Pretty much yes, it was mostly Vallejo and AK terrain paste and "decorative" sand/rocks I grabbed at 1€ type of store (inb4 "lol buying sand", I thought that going outside, grabbing sand and collecting small rocks, then washing them and drying was too much work - and for that 1€ I got enough sand and stone for hundreds of bases). I also applied ideas listed in Flames of War guide for making desert bases one anon linked in previous thread. Upper ones were made with Vallejo sand paste (ground section) and AK concrete paste (rocky section), additionally decorated with smaller and bigger rocks and sand, lower (red desert) section was the same but instead of sand, I used "brown earth" paste. Rocky sections were then painted with AK "Grey Brown" with sand/smaller rocks with AK "British Khaki" for light desert and treated with AP "Light Tone" wash, while for red desert, rocks were painted in Vallejo "Burnt Red" and everything covered with Vallejo "rust" wash. Finally drybrushed light desert with Vallejo "Khaki Grey", AK "Medium Sand" and Vallejo "Pale Sand", while red desert was drybrushed with AK "medium rust", "orange brown" and "sunny skintone".

Does zenithal bring anything to the table if I'm just using opaque paints ie not Contrast/Speed paints?

>>96116275
Not really, you'll see details more clearly and that's about it

>>96116275
Yeah, you can use it to block out the areas for highlighting, and shadow. It definitely does bring something to the table in that way, you just kinda have to set your positions before you lose the zenithal under the opacity of the base layers.

I do it all the time, especially with models that show anatomy etc.

>>96116275
Do it in your main colors, then you don't have to paint over all of it.

>>96116275
it helps me see details so I fuck up less recessed stuff.

>Finally finished up some models I am actually going to use
>proud of them, but know me touching them constantly with my fingers ruin paint jobs
>cant bring myself to spray with sealer since i had one bad experience with overly glossy finish, despite being matte
Tell me it's going to be alright, /wip/

>>96116407
Buy an airbrush and varnish with that or get a good quality varnish like tamiya or mr hobby. Acrylic varnishes in rattlecans are usually awful

>>96116275
>>96116313
Here's an example: I used a zenithal on this to help pick out the areas of highlight and shadow on this assassins skin suit. Worked out well enough.

>>96116407
you can always varnish again if it ends up glossy, with brush even

>>96116425
>>96116407
I've heard good things about AK Ultra Matte. Also buy a glossy varnish for any metallics or shit like gemstones or glowing effects and brush it on

>>96116427
Nice. Might try it your way. If nothing else it will help me better pick out details

>>96113526
fuck those guys, give one or two a tuft

>>96113972
doesn't look too gunked up in his picture

>>96116275
Doing is a zenithal in your basecoat colours is a good way to make your models look better for little effort. This guy for example has a fluorescent red zenithal done over his deep red basecoat

>>96113371
colours make the model

>>96113452
>>96113724
Man, that's wild. I took a few years off and all my pots were fine. I'd get it if it was a couple, but all of them is fucked. Even my ones with crusty ass lids were mostly fine. I think I had one yellow that was a bit chunky, but I just took the chunks out and stirred it all back up again.

>>96113745
In certain conditions such as I have in higher altitude (over 5k feet) I've had pots dry up on me in 3 years. Moisture always pulls through plastic, or each open vial is dehydrated more than usual.

>not that anon

>>96111518
>>96111816
How much does GW pay to poo-poo printers on 4chan?

>>96111518
There's microplastic in your balls

>>96117463
you're small time bub, I already moved on to MACRO plastics down there

Does anyone have any good tutorials on freehanding scales? The person playing this character requested "Purple but the top is green". That was vague as shit, but I'm guessing they mean a purple to green transition with scales since it's a dragon, but the model doesn't have scales, so I'll need to freehand it. I'm thinking of maybe using this method to at least draw in the scales with bright green skin underneath and dark purple scales on top or the other way around. Also I don't know how I'm supposed to transition between opposite colours anyway.

>>96117463
microplastics are chemically inert, they may cause problems in other ways buthey are inert, uncured resin is very much not inert

>>96116407
>overly glossy finish, despite being matte
That's just varnish that you didn't shake enough, or laid on too thick.

>>96116444
This. Varnish can always be fixed because you only get the finish of the last layer.

>>96118750
that sounds like something you really need to verify with the customer first, or you're not being paid enough to do that much work.

>>96118862
I'm not being paid at all. It's just my boardgame group. I paint the models of any games that have minis for us.

What's best to thin an ink with if I want to stain bare HDF? Just water? Add flow improver? Glaze medium? Lahmian medium? Contrast/speedpaint medium? Something else?

>>96118750
Just freehand a vague scale pattern in greyscale, then blend the two colors with a fuckload of glaze medium (or use contrast-like paints)?

>>96119309
just water should be fine

>>96117449
>I brush my teeth with radioactive toothpaste every day and can attest to it being perfectly safe

>soccer mom redditors are at it again
If you are too retarded to deal with resin safely, then don't do it. But don't fucking ruin it for the rest of us, you faggot nanny state queers.

>>96119798
I'm not saying you handle resin unsafely, I'm saying there's at least one retard that flushes resin down the toilet which is bad enough

>>96119807
There's an army of retards doing a lot worse shit every day, and a lot of that shit is related to cars and their maintenance, i.e., something nearly everyone owns.

>>96119807
There's a shady factory near you that does this and worse on an industrial scale.

>>96119816
>whataboutism
nta but come on

>>96119860
lol

>>96119862
It's not whataboutism, it's about fixing anon's priorities.
>twenty nerds with their resin printers might be doing something bad (mostly to themselves)
>millions of normgroids are doing something bad to everyone around and the environment
If anon cares about the environment, he should focus on actual issues, not made up soccer mom garbage like this.

>>96119882
I care about the environment that's why we don't need more sources of poison in our system

>>96119898
>let me crusade against >1% of the problem while ignoring the rest 99%
The least retarded modern environmentalist. Good thing is that whining on /wip/ about it is about as far as you will ever go about it.

>>96119914
When the 1% gives the 99% cancer I think it's worth discussing

>>96119926
>imblying
I sure as fuck hope you are baiting.

>>96119926
>>96119932
Holy fuck nobody cares, take this shit to /3dpg/ or something

>>96119926
That's not remotely true, lol.
China is poisoning our entire ocean, women's contraceptive pill hormones are being peed out by millions into our drinking water, there's microplastics in your brain and testicles, and you're worried about a handful of hobbyists messing around with some chemicals?

>>96119947
chinese fishing fleets are literally scavenging the ocean like locusts to the point theyre basically devoid of fish, but i dont see any environmentalists saying we should sink them

I subconciously painted this snipa like another one of my kommando boys.

Doesn't really matter since i'm satisfied with my paint job and how it only took me like 4 evenings after work. Got 2 more orks left to finish the whole team. I know it's not perfect but done is better than perfect and I got lots of projects I want to move to.

>>96120151
said doppelganger boy

>>96118815
you're chemically inert

>>96119898
Join Friday for Future or something. /tg/ certainly is not the place for your zealous crusade.

>>96119947
>>96119953
I'm almost 40. The planet will be okay for another 30-35 years, and after that exterminatus for the lulz. Who gives a shit.

>>96120400
You sound like a fifteen year old imbecile.

>>96120426
nobody who's actually 15 is saying "for the lulz" thoughbeit

This is what happens when someone on /40kg/ says "if you think the general has gone to shit you can move to /wip/"
>>96107683
>>96107639

>>96120438
Which makes it even sadder.

>>96120443
We've always had occasional meltdowns over safety of hobby shit, chill out. There's a lot of people that crosspost between here and /40kg/ anyway

>>96119328
Thanks!

Next unrelated question:
Anyone got a tutorial for painting dungeon flagstones on bases relatively quickly? I have some dungeon crawler boardgame minis and I don't want the hassle of greenstuffing/sculpting actual rock floor.

It was fun trolling you, WIP. See you tomorrow.

>i was merely pretending to be retarded
Classic.

>>96120400
Then why are you bitching about resin? Have some internal consistency.

why do we prime in black and not white?

>>96120810
Both are common.

>>96120810
You can but I personally dislike it
White primer kinda sux similarly to regular white paint while black creates natural shadows in very deep recesses so it looks fine if you leave them unpainted
With white primer any spot or recess you left unpainted will stick out like a sore thumb

>>96120810
>we

>>96120443
dont let them discover we have the best muhrines

>>96120810
These days I either prime gray or metallic.

>>96120810
>implying I prime at all. I just go straight in with colored spray paint and it works well enough

>>96120893
priming gray seems to be the best choice imo

I prime light grey because of the primers I tried that was the nicest surface to paint over. it really doesn't matter the value of your undercoat if you're not using a speedpainting technique, as long as it's not a weird hue.

>>96118750
Steppling might be the best way

Why not just use craft store paint?

>>96121064
If you like it then go for it, I've tried and it's not for me.

>>96121224
Who dese

>>96120810
I used to always prime white, but I realised I wasn't having fun painting every single detail on every single model. Black makes it so I only have to paint what I see. And I can keep big portions of the model black, like their clothes black with a grey drybrush so I can actually have fun painting what I want to paint.

>>96121254
Cathay stuff for Warhammer

>>96107767
I find the sculpt incredibly fun to so because there's a lot of variations textures etc. to play with.

Starting on some Swordmasters, what’s a good color to prime them? Planning on the old box art look with some minor changes. I’m guessing white prime?

>>96121377
white would be a good bet yeah because thats what you are mainly painting

>>96121365
the NMM on Silver's coat isn't really doing it for me. It implies the coat trim is actually made of metal rather than maybe metallic threads (like you did for the embroidery on the shoulder).
It looks a bit off I think.
I'd also make the chin slightly colder.

Rest is nice. I like your brush marks.

I'm painting a big model so I figured I'd give the airbrush a try
>paint to thinner ratio is 0.01% too much thinner
Everything sputters, airbrush creates a layer of watery paint that doesn't stick and just constantly falls off, moves, clumps and generally looks like fucking garbage
>paint to thinner is 0.01% too much paint
Take me down to fucking clog city where the paint is speckly and it all looks shitty

I genuinely don't understand this artifact from hell. To make it better getting ratios with GW's dogshit pots is fucking hellish and every single paint has its own ratio and it all also depends on airbrush pressure, humidity, temperature, position of Saturn, Premier standings and political breakdown of the house of lords. How do you use this thing? I'm at my wit's end.

>>96123258
1) get a proper airbrush instead of a chinesium one, and a real compressor
2) actually control your paint:thinner ratios, stop eyeballing shit with pots, transfer paint to droppers

>>96121365
Jim lad for sure looks like he's being played with

>>96123337
It's an Iwata Neo with a decent compressor
>2) actually control your paint:thinner ratios, stop eyeballing shit with pots, transfer paint to droppers
I genuinely can't. One day the same ratio I used the other day makes a watery mess, another day it works perfectly. It's fucking beyond me.

>>96123258
What are you doing?

Use 20:80 vallejo flow imprower to thinner. Try 18-20 psi (not a rule for everything but try lower psi if you spray at 30).

A fist distance for priming and base coating, two fingers distance for layering. I use a lot more thinner/flow improver than paint and I don't get spiderwebbing. I also spray GW paint and I literally don't fiddle around with ratio, I just do 1-3 brush loads, it's all about feel

>>96123389
And seeing if I get transparent paint along the wall of the airbrush cup*

>>96123385
>Iwata Neo
so a chinesium airbrush, got it
> One day the same ratio I used the other day makes a watery mess, another day it works perfectly.
you're using paint from pots, you aren't getting the same ratios because you're eyeballing shit since pots don't allow precise ratios, droppers do

>>96123258
first few attempts it feels like you want to throw the damn thing out from the window
give it time and you will get the hang of it and it becomes just a normal tool like any other

if i remember right some anons even make their own thinner out from IPA and water

>>96123385
In the short run I'd suggest making your life easier by using pre thinned airbrush paint (not citadels)

>>96123389
Also how much thinner are you using? You're not spraying pre-thinned airbrush paint but thick citadel paint. If you think you're using too much you're probably using too little. Fill that cup up. Just a reference for how much about I usually fill up, about half the cup.

Sup /WIP/

Happy Friday. Further refining my chrome marker/diluted ink pinwash method. Another Early Renaissance footknight. While the plume is elaborate, it is far from the most garish stylings of the era.

I think this guy is turning out not bad. I wasn't sure how the fluted armor would look if I were to shade it as well but I went for it and I think it's looking decent.

Gonna try to draw out some more highlights on the plumage and other areas. I think that's one of the downsides to this method when there is a lot of other color involved, you have to pull off the shading and highlighting well and with pretty good depth in between to match the reflective shiny appearance of the steel chrome.

Figure is by Steel Fist Miniatures out of the UK.

>>96123543
>so a chinesium airbrush, got it
NTA, but isn't Neo a good airbrush?

>>96123708
that is great ready to play historical figurine but over 28mm scale you might want to dilute it down a bit

>>96123258
If your thinning ratio is right, distance is right and pressure is right, then it might your trigger control. Layering should be light pull at the trigger and base coating and priming not that much harder. You only need full release when clearing tip drying

>>96123735
to my knowledge, not really
It's a beginner airbrush by ""Iwata"" but the way they went in making it a beginner-tier is by basically rebranding a chinesium one, so you get a chink airbrush with chink QC but under the Iwata brand which lulls you into a false sense of security

>>96123927
>want to buy HS Infinity CRplus
>HS is owned by Iwata
>Iwata is doing shit like this
Unpleasant implications.

>>96123735
it's doesn't really matter, even a chinesium airbrush does work, the problem is elsewhere

if i had to guess id say the problem is using citadel paints, from the moment you open a pot it can have uneven chunks of dried paint and you won't notice them, also other brands thinners might not thin it smoothly

remember when around 2008 first airbrushed miniatures started appearing online and everyone in unison called bullshit and made it clear how it looked like shit, really everyone was in awe how cool those lighting effects looked
now almost 20 years after we have reached the point where its cool not to use airbrush because thats what every beginner starts with
pretty cool innit

>>96124155
>even a chinesium airbrush does work,
For basecoating/priming, yes. For any detailed work, no.

>>96124178
how convenient that he is painting a big model then

>>96123708
For anyone who might be wondering, the method basically goes.

1. Lay down a base coat of a steel metallic on the areas you will be applying the chrome. I use AK interactive natural steel, but any sort will work. Allow to dry and cure. I usually give it a day or two, may not be necessary but I do it.

2.lay down base coat on non-metallic parts. If you're going to do any dry brushing anywhere near the metal, this would be a good time to do it. You could also shade and highlight here but I generally wait until after the chrome is applied in case there is spillover and a cover up is necessary.

3. With the metallic parts cured, take the chrome marker (AK interactive makes some, steel chrome is good but the others spoil quickly even when sealed) and apply it over the metallics you intend to. Do your best not to slash into or disturb the stuff you have laid down already if you want a perfect finish. I usually go up and down like mowing a lawn. If you are doing a shield or flat surface and it appears uneven don't try to even it out immediately. Wait until it cures and re-apply it, focus on the problem areas. However, you can also create the appearance of battle damage or chinks in the armor by giving it a little poke or "slash" with something while still wet. Brass rod, hobby knife etc. Cure 72 hours.

3. Now what you want to do is mix some black ink (AK is good, again.) and a universal thinner. I use AK interactive 3rd gen universal thinner, it works really well for pinwashes. Then you take a very thin long bristled brush (pic rel, 25mm base for scale) and directly shade the crevices and recesses with the ink pinwash. Normal washes will not work for this purpose because they are not opaque enough to create those distinct lines. You can use them to create a weather appearance on parts though. Let the ink cure and dry.
4) Coat the armor with high gloss varnish or a shine enhancing varnish (I use gauzy agent)

Have a good one bros

>>96124202
Trying to do preshading with chinesium airbrush is a suffering, even on chonky King Tiger in 1:35 scale. Not to mention stuff like dusting and other weathering-related techniques.

>>96106935 (OP)
Thanks for making my picture the banner.

>>96124160
You can usually tell an airbrushed mini. I decided it was very useful for me because of the speed of batch painting. I kinda prefer drybrushing but it doesn't really work unless 80-90% of the mini is armor

>>96124160
That's every cutting edge gadget. People produce it cheaper, shit becomes ubiquitous, novelty wears off.
In the Victorian era bare lightbulbs and exposed cables would be shown off as something ultra-modern. Nowadays you'd see such shit in a basement.
Early aluminum was super expensive, so cutlery made of it was showy. Today it just looks cheap.
Same here. Airbrushes have long since left the hands of ~tr00 professional artists~, became affordable, and flooded youtube and ebay listings with garish OSLs and such. Now everyone and their dog can test an airbrush for himself and decide if and how much he wants to use it. It's become "just another tool".

>>96123958
afaik Neo is the only time they pulled shit like this and H&S is generally solid

>>96123735
It's a decent airbrush but this is /wip/ so anything but a pro level one that runs around 1k is gonna be called a shitty tool.

>>96123544
>>96123603
>>96123656
I went to give it another run and I was definitely using too much thinner, I think I finally got a decent mix this time around and managed to get some pretty decent coats.
Still a bit frustrated with it. It's a skill issue but man I didn't expect it to be so unforgiving.

>>96125180
It's one of those things you have to get just right, but after you do, it's generally smooth sailing. The other thing that filters people is the cleaning, go watch some Vince's videos about it.

>>96125180
Yes. Airbrushing is about variables. Too high pressure you get spiderwebbing. Too thin you get spiderwebbing. You just need to keep working at it.

>>96125193
>The other thing that filters people is the cleaning, go watch some Vince's videos about it.
NTA, but cleaning is a bitch for me (insert dirty nerd joke) and I'd like some tutorials, please link.

>>96125226
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIJs1c4bsQ

>>96125193
Oh yeah the cleaning is totally fine, I did watch that video and I've never had a problem with it, and I've only had it clog once and it was super easy to fix.
>>96125212
Yeah and there are a ton of them. I think I do have to transfer my citadel stuff to droppers because getting the right thinning with Vallejo is so much easier.

>>96124232
i don't know what kind of shit do you guys do but i had a very chinesium airbrush for a long time and never had any problem with it, the trigger isn't the smoothest and had to deburr a bit the cap sure, but if works fine
i refuse to think they make them worse than 15 years ago

>>96125226
Run airbrush cleaner through it a few times. Wipe the cup with some paper towel and isopropyl alcohol. Make sure the cup/chamber whatever it's called is clean, remove the needle, wipe it with isopropyl alcohol. Use a q tip or a drybrush to clean the nose of the air brush if there is a lot of dry paint there. You don't necessarily have to clean the needle if it looks fine, just make sure there is no dry paint on the tip.

You can fix tip drying as you paint by pulling the trigger farthest back just to clear dry tip. If it's still dry you might have to use a dry brush and some airbrush cleaner to wipe it away

Timestamped: https://youtu.be/J9PL5tT8BsQ?si=vgPgJHB6dZUJYrNG&t=549

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CcnuMLYu-k&t

>>96123258
Tamiya X-20A is your friend, even for regular water-based acrylics

A bit too much speckling but I'm hoping weathering and some glazes can fix it, I also wanna try to use some oils to filter the colour and tie everything together. I'm excited to paint this guy, vehicles are fun.
Also first time doing masking for the stripe, it's not perfect but I think it turned out alright.

>>96125258
>Yeah and there are a ton of them. I think I do have to transfer my citadel stuff to droppers because getting the right thinning with Vallejo is so much easier.

You could do that, but personally I don't find the need because once you learn how to dilute paint you'll just know when it's right.

But if you want to be super scientific and have mix things perfectly then yeah you'd probably need droppers.

>>96125381
you used around 6 youtube words in less than 2 sentences
good luck anon i hope your hodgepodge turns out alright

>>96125543
You need to go back.

Printed a chaos giant.

>>96125570
go ahead and try to say something positive about that if you are so well versed

Printed a chaos giant from Bestiarum Miniatures. Lost Kingdoms marauder for scale.

>>96125614
post your work

>>96125543
>youtube words
nta but literally what the fuck are you on about. Don't start this shit of being anal about popular ways to describe techniques. It makes you sound like someone who gives a fuck, which is sad.

>>96125624
Really nice print, anon.

>>96125543
I'm curious, which ones are them

>>96125614
if you see something bad you have three options
a) explain why and offer advice
b) post nothing
c) be a dick about it

>>96125679
c
c every time.

>schizo trying to start shit again
Anyway, I’m gonna make some fantasy style objective markers. Have you guys got any more ideas, maybe a sword in the stone?

>>96125934
>an red "x marks the spot" in the sand, maybe with a chest or something being unearthed
>a golden goose egg in a nest
>A HUGE dragon/whatever egg
>a petrified stone nobleman/woman
>a portal
idk I don't play dnd but I'm just thinking of monty python or something

>>96125934
more like 5 anons trying to drum drama from nothing because slow thread
>>96126013
>monty python or something
little white rabbit with some blood on its whiskers

>>96121296
prints though right? no way do the plastics look this bad in the details and this wonky in the feet

>>96125934
graves, coffins, idols, altars, gear, orbs...

Anyone have a favorite neutral grey? Trying to use my wpf uniform grey but it kinda has crappy coverage which makes it hard to color in properly

blue weapons y/n

>>96126525
army painter regiment grey is pretty much citadel dawnstone imho

finally finished my english army.

Perry english army 35$, perry agincourt mounted knights 35$ 1 sprue of perry French infantry 100$, 80$ total.

happy how it all turned out

>>96126807
melee infantry

Is Duncan sponsored by GW or something?

>>96126807
>>96126816
gz anon they look great

>>96126905
thanks!

>>96126807
>35+35+100=80
Um, what?

>>96128362
I doubt one Perry sprue is $100, so maybe he meant $10?

>>96126819
lol.

How do I get my pro acryl to not split so rapidly on a wet pallete? I left a little blob of camo green covered on the pallete for around 30 minutes and it was already split when I came back.

Alright finished up the rest of the putty work tonight and he is all done. Im super happy with the rocking back recoil pose on this one, I had to cut and repose every leg joint.

>>96121254
>>96126086
NTA but they look like Terracotta Sentinels from Kapibarin.

>>96128981
hows this guy got the new nighthaunt potion seller and chorf bull on his cults already wtf

I want to paint a dreadnought like an old timey tank, make it look all rough like historical models, except I don't actually know that much about dreadnoughts or space marines. Which model version do you think is the best bet for this? so far I'm leaning towards just I guess the normal one? Redemptor?

>>96125770
This is why nothing you ever do will matter.

>>96129071
deredeo has nice rounded shape just like an old tank

>>96125381
Since your color already has quite a bit of green/yellow in it I'd say just do touchups with a dark blue-green and then blend them in. The speckling can be used but it'd be a better result in the end to make it look like a recess than a highlight, like it has impact marks from small arms fire, and then blend it into the surrounding area.

I feel you need to bring up the area around the Aquilla anyways (From how I'm reading the light) so I'd suggest doing the entire plate in a higher value and the side plates in a lower value. It'll make the highlights and shadows more dynamic in the end and you won't be able to see the speckling anymore.

Drybrushing could be a good solution as long as you don't add too much texture. A little bit of moisture on a stiff bristle brush and a thin paint in small circular motions. Practice on another flat surface and see how you like it.

>>96125543
> I don't attempt to learn so I feel jargon is a threat because I can't understand a concept higher than breathing and masturbating. The technique I've worked the longest on developing is smearing my feces on the wall my mother has to clean.

>>96129071
>except I don't actually know that much about dreadnoughts or space marines
why exactly do you specifically want a dreadnought then instead of just getting a random mech from literally any other setting

>>96129071
They're all the same; Campbell's Soup of really angry nearly dead guy with a weapon loadout to keep going. Just get the cheapest one you like off ebay and call it a day. They'll pretty much all look good in a tank style.

>>96129122
I'unno. Just want one.

>>96129100
I'm looking more for the flat plate armor look than the cast round metal look.

>>96126807
Very nice to see your project being completed. Not my subject at all, but it was interesting to see you you progress.

>>96129053
apparently he uses AI that makes them models from images and thats why some of them have very plain backsides because the program has no idea whats behind there

>>96129343
Early bird and such.
He makes some quick buck, and some others refine the models over time usually.

>>96128852
Don't know, it's fucked. Maybe try using grease proof baking sheet and wipe top off with paper to make sure it's not too wet. If it doesn't work then a dry palette is the only way to go.

>>96128852
Sounds like you're not properly mixing the medium. It also depends heavily on what the pigment you're working with is, they're all very different from each other.

Try shaking it more, if that's not doing the trick crack the lid a bit as there may be too much moisture in the environment, and swap out what liner you're using.

Parchment paper is your friend but they're not all made equal, some are much better quality than the others. Also if your sponge is fucking drowning it'll oversaturate and cause a split.

Fine balance is key.

Goddamit, is there any brush for painting super tiny eyes? And no, i want eye not tiny eye dot

>>96130140
never tried any expensive fancy beaver ass hair brushes because frankly i would just be afraid they would go bad after few uses unless i go trought this meticulous and long cleaning procedure every single time
any small brush should do

>talking with based boomer manager at LGS
>tell him I've been thinking about doing some winter basing for a change
>tells me that specific basing products are good, but the best snow he's ever seen in his whole career (40+ years) was some guy who used to embellish WWII winter dioramas with some unholy mix of shaving cream and paints and glue
I don't doubt his expertise, but that's totally bullshit, right? I've never heard of anyone using that, Google returns nothing of note, and I'm sure there's a thousand contraindications right?

>>96130140
Generally, natural hair brushes should maintain very fine tip when moistured even at bigger sizes. Many people assume that they should use 0s or 1s for eyes and details like that but they cannot load much paint and moisture and dries up too quickly as a result. Personally, I use size 2 for eyes because of that. It's really about how much paint itself you load on brush at the moment (if too much, gently roll while moving against palette to squeeze excess) and how you touch the surface so all about experience and keep trying until you get it.

>>96130234
keyword here is dioramas
they just sit in cabinet shelves to be looked at, not to be played with so why not

>>96130140
Get a good, high quality brush (Rosemary & Co, comes to mind, 1 or 0 size), properly thin your paint and then it is all just about practice.

>>96130234
Why not try it on a single 25mm base and see how it looks?

>>96130234
It could be anecdotal story at this point, missing holes in memory and whole different consistency of said shaving cream since from what I imagine modern shaving cream will turn brown and generally react odd when left on air for days.

>>96128502
Why does he use so much citadel paints then? Literally his entire paint range is a copy of citadel. Am I missing something?

>>96130140
use some retarder with your paint, one of the problems of painting tiny things with small brushes (more so in summer) is the paint drying in the brush and not flowing properly

>>96130276
i'm assuming because he's used to them and maybe doesn't have an equivalent for every single colour in his own range.

>>96130234
the shaving cream he used may have worked then and there, but there is so much variation in shaving creams that it's a fool's errand to try and pursuit that
there's also so many snow products that one of them is bound to get the effect you like, so get some and start testing

>https://meanderingshade.blogspot.com/2020/05/snow-product-experiments-snow-basing.html

>>96130317
He does have an equivalent for leadbelcher and literally every other color used in his latest video

>>96130276
Anon almost his entire shtik is about painting citadel minis in to a fairly decent mid-high tabletop standard in box art color schemes. Of course his paints are going to be similar to citadels.

>>96130276
You realize you can use any paint, regardless of what your favourite influencer is using?

>>96130363
>you can use any paint
preposterous

>>96130363
I know that's not the point, he made his paint range out of spite and he's not advertising them? I guess he might be trying to tell people that you can paint box art quality with citadel paints but still it's just weird

>>96130393
Maybe he thought that citadel paint would work better in this particular case or something? It's not that deep buddy, normal people don't act like retarded tribalists over trivial shit like this unlike most people here

>>96130262
I'm missing the "unholy combination of paint and glue and probably other stuff" part

>>96130249
I thought the same but I was more curious about how cream reacts when ageing/exposed to air, since that's the big thing to consider for when making this stuff

>>96130323
>>96130268
Yea that's fair, he mentioned it was in the late '90s so it's safe to say he was using some product that's not even available any more
I guess it's an interesting time capsule from someone who's truly interesting to listen to, when he's not bitching about every single modern paint brand being "fuckin shit for fuckin kids"

>>96130451
They're literally the same colors

>>96130472
>>96130330

well it's a big mystery then maybe he's still a paid shill (which would be a pretty weird setup given the circumstances), or maybe he's like me and just grabs whatever the fuck is closest to hand or maybe it's a balancing act because he thinks his audience still prefer him to use citadel paints. Think you need to escalate this and ask him directly.

>>96130393
>he made his paint range out of spite
[citation needed]

>>96130812
My citation is common sense and the ability to reason

what do you do when you're working on something and it's turning out shitty and you're just getting more depressed the more you try to fix the fuckups

>>96130902
I lose all motivation and do nothing. Hope it helps.

>>96130902

I try to finish it and then move on. If it feels fucked up I try to fix the fuck ups as best as I can and then try just decide when it's "good enough" and move on and use it as a learning experience for the next one.

They're just tiny plastic toy soldiers.

>>96130902
Fucking up is the best thing, because you can learn the most through it. You rarely learn shit when everything goes well.

Guyz! Frens and gitz! I am unsure of what to do, with my flash gitz squad, since my army scheme is gloomy(see nobz and meganobz) I did a little bit of effort on the captain because I thought why not and it’s FLASH gitz so should I go as usual for the rest of the squad or full flashy??

>>96131054
Closer look might help tho

>>96130902
You strip and try again

>>96131077
Now I've spilled paint on my dick, thanks a lot mate

>>96131281
eheh

>Fell for the Artus Opus meme brushes

Well I'm out of like $200. These dogshit brushes don't hold a candle to the kolinsky winson and newton you can get on amazon for 1/8 the price.

To be honest with you it would be fun to post wips but my camera is just so shitty it turns me off. Maybe I should buy a samsung flagship or something

>>96131796
Agreed. I use my artis opus just for metallics now, my W&N is a lot better and has a really springy brush

>>96131808
tbqh if you manage to criticize your camera to that extend i cant wait to see how your models look like

>>96131859
If I get too close it loses focus, if I focus right the picture is just meh. Then it's also I don't know how to angle things correctly because I'm not a photographer

>>96131882
i take 2-5 pictures that i transfer to my pc and then select the one i like most and resize trough paint before posting, i assume thats what everyone does
sure there are some real photography anons too and you can tell because their colours are so vivid but everyone knows camera makes everything look worse than its irl so dont mind it

>>96131796
>W&N
>1/8th of AO price
should've said you can get the same ones from aliexpress or something if you're just trying to start shit

>>96131796
I can't even keep my bulk cheap Chinesium brushes from splitting or splaying.
I use those to practice basic brush maintenance and even then I feel like I'm failing badly at it.

Based up the Renaissance style knight. Turned out alright I think. Might shade the face some more. I'm fairly pleased with the outcome here though, wasn't sure if all the shaded detail would pair well with the shininess of the chrome steel.

>>96131796
>buy like five Rosemary & Co Series 33 brushes two years ago
>use them multiple times every week
>make sure paint never gets to ferrule
>the only cleaning I do is with cold water, but after each use
>apart from the markings being completely scrubbed away, they are still like new

is this something everyone should try atleast once or just a ruse

>>96131971
This. Size 4 my eternal goto, large body but holds its point like fuck.

>>96131990
That stuff is cheap as chips so it is worth giving a shot.

>>96131996
1-4 are the goats.

>>96131990
https://www.thetinyturner.co.uk/product-page/jo-sonja-s-brush-soap

It's good but will happily shill this stuff. Has restored brushes that were beyond fubar.

>>96131970
If you work with a lot of metal, or resin or build MDF buildings or do a lot of basing using superglue for larger rocks and etc. get yourself a pack of these. They are called glue loopers, fairly expensive at 25 leafbucks for 10 (I may have been paying a premium). However, in the middle there you can see one attached to a handle and that is the first one I broke out of the package and I've been using it for nearly 4 years now almost every day. They're designed for superthin superglue but you can use any cyanoacrylate. The advantage lies in using a thicker super glue to tack the resin, metal or whatever material into place, and then using the superthin to really bolt it down. Works just like your standard tamiya extra thin, except obviously it is metal instead of a brush. You just touch it to the seam and it flows right in. For thicker glue, they are handy for precision gluing if you do a lot of sub-assemblies where painted parts have very specific contact points. They make ones specifically for drawing thick lines of thicker cyanoacrylate but I have not bothered with them because the standard ones work for that purpose fine. Burn off excess or dried glue and you're good to go. They come with 4 small sized, 4 medium and 2 large. They're designed so you can stick them into a shitty hobby knife handle, I use the ones from the dollar store. Or you could also use some wire and a pencil or other piece of wood if you wanted a parallel handle for it, or otherwise if you want to save a dollar or two for a soda.

All in all highly recommended they last forever, pretty sure they are made of steel and if you use superglue a lot in your basing or otherwise you should grab yourself some because you will end up using it nonstop.

Not a shill, just like to share effective tools with other hobbyists when I can.

>>96132042
Might try these because I fucking hate gluing resin

>>96132042
pretty nifty invention
i visited the big city this past week and swung around the pharmacy on my way to LGS so i could get some size 10 scalpels
it took 20 minutes to go in and out because after 4 clerks had their little pow wow and having their manager clear me out just by looking at me i finally got my 2 hobby knives
and i dont even live in england

I have an idea of how I would repose Dante, but I'm not a fan of the helmet. Is there anything I could reasonably do to take away or hide the Tacticus helmet part and bring it back to the old version a little bit?

Today's hobbying, done cleaning and assembling the warpsmith, I hope painting him won't be as annoying.
It was a rainy day so instead of priming him I went ahead and cleaned and assembled two legionaries to go with him.

>>96132525
>Is there anything I could reasonably do to take away or hide the Tacticus helmet part and bring it back to the old version a little bit?

Get a third party bit

>>96132525
No the problem with the primaris helmet is that its the face details are way to small like someone strapped a childs mask atop a normal helmet.

Just use the original head there is nothing wrong with it. His owld pistol is cooler too.

>>96133079
I think the implication is he cant get a hold of the original head

>>96132525
chop the ears down, cut the bottom off the halo and slot the halo down where the ears are cut at. if you are any good at tube crafting, cut the halo a bit shorter and still slot it on the ears but add the classic style extra tubes to cover the ear cuts just below the halo cuts.
as someone else pointed out, the mask seems smaller on the new helmet which is a bit of a issue. it seems flatter to me where the classic wraps around the face and bends back more.
the lower tubes on the classic are larger and more exposed than the new one, as well the upper tubes on the classic are larger than those too. lots of room to craft some tube and cover up the parts of the helmet you dont like.
additional tube for the gun if you are any good at tube crafting. toob, pipe, wire, hose

>>96132042
sounds like a wire works about the same, you can also bend it into a loop too

>>96132042
I genuinely don't understand the problem this is supposed to be solving?

>>96132525
>Is there anything I could reasonably do
Scavenge a nicer looking helmet from that stack of old 5th Edition Sanguinary Guard kits over in the corner. Each box only ,made five guys, but gave you something like 20 helmets!

>>96133079
>like someone strapped a childs mask atop a normal helmet.
I can never unsee that now, thanks for that.

>>96133079
>original head
the original body/head is a one piece slab of pewter from what I can remember (maybe it's resin now). I'd be impressed if anyone would bother/ be able to get just the head from that model. Especially because you'd be buying another character just for the tiniest bit different head which you wouldn't even notice at a glance.

>>96111747
>>96110968
I think a touch of gaudiness is fine for chaos, great job

>>96110968
the colors and paintjob look really good regardless

>>96131943
Same here. I can’t figure out if it is me letting paint into the ferrule without me noticing or if I am awful at maintaining brushes or if it is that I buy bulk Chinese brushes.

what's everybody working on? printed some highland not-tomb kings so doing batch painting on a scale I haven't done in a long time.

>>96133999
the 'problem' of placing small drops of glue where you need them, usually solved with a toothpick or similar utensil

>>96131943
those chink brushes are pretty much disposable tier

>>96134652
Nice

>>96134652
Nice skellingtons, anon. I didn't have too much time to paint lately so I've been chipping away at this final sorcerer, finished the disk today. I'll probably redo the airbrushing on his main body cause it came out kinda grainy.

>>96134721
disc looks good, you painting that fucker wholly assembled?

>>96134736
God no, it'd be torture. Head, backpack and disc are all seperate, I just put him together for the picture.

>>96134289
I have 2 of these boxes that I nabbed the moment I saw the dogshit. I plan to convert them with assault intercessors.

Finally finished this squad after possibly a year after starting them. I recognize the picture angle is pretty shit for seeing the faces, but they're already put away. How do they and the bases look?

>>96135010
They look like a weekend paintjob, not a year long paintjob.

>this time of day
>same hateful troll

>>96129185
You want a Venerable Dreadnought anon, not a Redemptor. Flat panels galore and you get a part of history as well. Hail the Boxnaught!

>>96135031

I hate Primaris too, but you should die in a hotel fire ya prick

>>96135062
>>96135857
I suppose you'd rather I blow smoke up anons ass and tell him his paintjob is utterly amazing, golden daemon work that'd make duncan weep tears of joy?
If you can't handle receiving criticism (or even just seeing it directed at another) then /WIP/ is not the place for you.
Hell, 4chan is not the place for you!

>>96135905
The only thing more useless than a mediocre artist is a bad critic. There was no meaningful content in your "criticism".

You wanna be big dick expert telling people how it is? Try using your words to address shortcomings and explain techniques and ideas for improvement.

Otherwise shut up.

>>96135922
If anyone needs to shut up it's you, the only thing you're doing is whining and it's not even about someones painting.

>>96135931
Get fucked manchild. I don't have time to make you a better person, so I'm going to have to settle for helping others be better painters.

>>96135010
I think the bases are a little plain, but that's not terrible. I think I'm seeing very delicate edge highlights, but that's not necessarily bad; you may want to be a bit more aggressive in what edges get. I think what you may be lacking in the red sections is some depth, so I personally might go in with a pin wash for some of the recesses and undersides of armor plates.

Overall I wouldn't be upset seeing these on a table, but there is some room for improvement. If you don't want to do anything drastic but still want to give them a little touch to elevate them you might want to give the helmet lenses a light jeweling highlight or florescent effect. A light dash of white along them and then a sweep of a florescent orange would give the goggles some more glow and help them contrast against the yellow helmets more.

>>96135931
Anyone can tell you've never spent any time in a creative space, or even a thread about creating anything on 4chan. It's transparent how pathetic and antisocial you are. You've done this whole crusade against artist thing multiple times from multiple "I'm retarded and don't want to learn/have nothing interesting to say" angles. And you're still posting as if you're proving something. Just fuck off, these threads aren't for you.

>>96134652
Love me some skellingtons, always have tons of personalities. The blue is a nice pair with all of the earth tones, and the browns and reds are nice supporting colors. Been trying to work on little things but nothing too extensive. Still need odorless thinner so it's been a few months since I've ben able to paint. Bit of irony it's been a rough couple months, so if I had thinner I'd be annoyed I wasn't able to paint anyway lol.

Anyone know of a good human figure file I can open in blender and import some props I have to make an STL to print? Not something that has normal human proportions but also not overly stylized. I've seen some browser programs to make your own STL figure, but its all too stylized for D&D and I can't import my own files for the helmet and stuff.

>>96135905
Criticism is supposed to be helpful. Otherwise, what's the point?

>>96135010
Marines and bases look clean, but plain.
Might be the picture, but it seems like you did very little highlights to the red. And either very very little wash, or none at all. I would absolutely go heavier with a wash, espcially for the metallic parts) but thats my taste.

One of players is leaving for college early, so we had to end our Kingdom Death campaign this week. We beat the Watcher, and then had enough time to throw the remaining survivors at the Giga Lion, which they slew.

The story is left with an uncertain ending as the remaining 10 survivors take their 4 lanterns into the unknown.

>>96136359
The final 10 survivors at Lantern Year 21. Not the best picture, I know.

>one off-hand critical remark
>anons crawl over each other to signal how Supportive and Accepting of Others' Feelings[TM] they are
>immediately turning worse than the original post they replied to
Huh, I thought I was on reddit for a moment. I guess this is where all the 28 fags ended up.

>>96136388
I'm gonna get called some kind of poopdick schizo discord 40kg raider samefag boogeyman for this (which just reinforces my point) - but /wip/, in general, is incredibly thin-skinned

>check humidity
>80%
Caman I wanna prime

>>96136388
>>96136438
Samefag cope.

>>96136464
case in point

>>96136464
>>96136494
also both (you) proving yourself right

>>96136494
Clearly this guy >>96136388
is just the retard that got BTFO'd earlier seething and pretending to be le based observer.

>>96134652
I decided to paint All My Dwarves, which will end up being roughly 100. I'm about halfway through.

I think this is done now. I gotta clean up the rest of the base and figure out if I want to put anything on it, but the model is painted.

>>96136388
Nobody would've complained if you provided some actual criticism along with that useless remark, you stupid nigger. Dumbasses like you need to be filtered right off the bat before you turn this place into another /40kg/-tier shithole

>>96131796
Nigga, you could buy good quality Kolinsky brushes with half the price of winson newton. And they has better quality control than winson newton too, Nevskya kolinsky or a bit better and more expensive Roubloff
https://e-roubloff.com/

>>96136670
Solid work, I like those ice crystals a lot.
>>96136853
>anything russian
>good quality
press x to doubt

>>96134657
Why not just use toothpick then or a cheap bent chinesium airbrush needle?

>>96136863
Nevskya and Roubloff are legit brand and i been using them for year with no problem

>>96136863
>Solid work, I like those ice crystals a lot.
Thanks, ice is fun to paint because you can just slap whatever you want on and use sloppy brush strokes as long as you finish it up with some white scratches.

>check humidity
>62%
Hgnnnnn almost there
Gotta make it before it rains again

>>96136918
Just airbrushing LMAO

What is the best way to store your brushes anyway? Up, Down or Horizontal?

>>96136971
down or horizontal when drying, after that it doesn't matter

>>96136971
i store my brushes in my white hands
i have little clips on the back of my brushes that i used to attach them to a little string, but the string broke, so now i just use the clips to magnetize the brushes to my work light arm, hanging point down

>>96136971
Horizontal when drying. Let them dry before you recap

>>96137021
>Let them dry before you recap
What?

>>96137028
the little plastic cap that comes with new brushes

>>96137028
I don't know how it affects bristles but trapped moisture is never good for anything. Just have them horizontally without a cap and if you absolutely must store them down wait until they're dry

>>96137037
these are for protection during shipping, no reason to put them on afterwards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae-fLMLELPE&t

It's up

>hipster paint

>priming CSMs
>have to do it 5 times because of all the different angles you need to use to do it right

>>96137252
This is just every model I've ever painted. I use rows of cardboard and blutac to prime like 5 at a time, but I always miss angle from the bottom and bits blocked by the other models because of it. Never really changes anything in the end, but it's annoying as fuck.

>>96137265
I guess this shows the value of sub-assembly as well.

like 30mn after I primed my minis I received a text about how my region was about to be struck with a violent storm and that I should stay indoor.
Feelsgoodman

>>96119388

Great. Now anons on /tg/ have got to their heads that I can't use oil washes. I have to paint things normally.

>>96137376
>rattlecan plebs

>>96137403
Something something rattlecan bonds with the plastic

Ok, nearly done on my rohan. not going to go super deep on detail, just look nice from the distance. Now its just basing and MAYBE some edge highlights.

never really did dry brushing much before, any tips? thinking lime grean for the cloak and a more orangy brown for the leather.

it's finished, had to partly repaint the crown because one of the spikes broke as i dropped it while varnishing

also better photos

>>96135976
The bases were literally just dirt that I picked out some bigger rocks in grey to look like more rubble. I didn't plan on it, but once I started doing it it made it look a lot better than before.
My highlights do tend to be really thin and they don't show up well in pictures. I did Mephiston Red, Evil Sunz for the first highlight, and a small bit of orange for certain spots. Should I go thicker with the edge highlights with the first highlight color in general to make it more apparent? I think it's because I usually look at them very closely so I can see, but then I don't normally look at the from arms length afterwards.
What is a good shade color for red? I've been using Agrax but it doesn't add much. Would a contrasting color wash look better and add more depth than just brown? I have a good number of wash colors.
>>96136357
The highlights are very thin and don't show up great in pictures. Whenever I try to go heavy with a wash I get that white buildup, so I've been trying to be careful with it.

>>96138489
Looks great anon, that cape is the obvious standout but everything else is very solid as well.

>>96138489
top tier mini right here

Just hoping I won't regret not sub-assembling the two legionaries

>>96131990
I have that exact stuff, and when I rarely remember I have it and use it, it seems to work quite well.

>>96131990
I bought this on a whim when I was getting some other stuff and it does a pretty good job cleaning brushes. It's not particularly expensive but I don't know if it's worth getting over regular brush soap

>>96138489
great stuff!

I wonder, has anyone tried some sort of Zorn palette exercise when painting minis? Like using a very limited palette to paint the whole mini and learn to get a good contrast and colour scheme with limited paints. Then again acrylics don't mix nearly as well as oils.

>>96139277
But that is regular brush soap? It's the bog standard that you will find in any art supply store.

>>96139277
I found it rather expensive, at least in my case. I keep using normal soap (not liquid one, the cube ones) and shampoo from time to time.

Guys, do you have any tips to do this kind of cool calligraphy on marine parchments?

>>96139949
Oh it is? It kinda doesn't foam like regular soap so I thought it might be something different. Well anyway it works pretty nicely but I wouldn't go out of my way to get it.

>>96140024
Practice on paper until you can do it.

>>96139652
>has anyone tried some sort of Zorn palette exercise when painting minis?
yes

>>96131990
I have the gay looking one with the unicorn (Jentastic something something) and find it a lot better.

>>96140024
Ive seen some people here do a really decent job with them, should ask them

>>96140024
>do you have any tips
yes, just have god-tier brush control

>>96140024
some people recommend micron pens for that

>>96128889
>Elysians
holy fucking kino
love the Elysian models
hate what GW did to all the regiments :(

some progress

This is my only metallic color. Do you guys think it'd be possible to make different shades of it by mixing it? Would different tones of grey do it? Or mix with white or black?

>>96141071
mixing will lead to the metal flakes separating, pretty quickly depending on the paint. You might be able to do something like 1:1 but for example I was trying to make a blue metallic with model air steel and an ink and it immediately turned splotchy and separated, so I just painted the ink over manually. Though model air is pretty thin but the separation is something I can see just when I don't shake a bottle enough before use.

>>96141109
Thanks for the heads up so I don't waste my paint. Would an undercoat help then? Paint it over black or very light gray depending on the shade I want? Obviously wouldn't be perfect but could be something?

>>96140921
hell yeah, is that 5th edition?

>>96141134
maybe a little bit, washes/thinned washes or glaze work with acrylics might also help
since the only regular metallics I have are steel and gunmetal (model air is nearly black) I was gonna try mixing them to get a middleground but that's a different scenario

>>96141109
Shit separates on my wet palette even if I don't do anything to it after not too much time.

>>96141275
yeah I don't even try the wet palette, model air is really nice cause it's thinned but also has nearly one coat coverage and I can just damp my brush and use it

>>96141140
or earlier yeah

Here's a snek I finished up, decided to do just metal for the axe after some diff color schemes.

An evil fighter and elf touchup I did, what do you guys think about the sea green base? It's supposed to be a water temple vibe

>>96141071
>>96141109
Doesn't mixing ink work? I thought that was a hack

>>96141972
I'd have to research inks and how they work first. No idea what you would buy and how you would apply it

>>96141972
I thought so too but with vallejo game ink and model air at least the metal separates too much, haven't tried with different types
>>96141985
it's just artist acrylic inks at hobby lobby or equivalents or ink lines from mini paint brands if you can find them

Progress

>>96141071
You'll have better luck accepting that the base color is as bright as you can go and doing thin washes to create midrange and shadow. Colored washes are nice too, blues purples and reds especially.

Any idea for a good substitute to vallejo metal chrome? I like shinning clear metallics, and this one of the best silvers I've ever used.

Does Rhinox Hide or similar dark brown work for chipping battle damage on any color? Or would you want something different for blue or red?

>>96142237
I'm not sure. You want silver? Usually I'd say Vallejo game air silver but since it's discontinued VMC air silver.

>>96142243
Yes, it does

>>96142358
Noted. I want to start doing battle damage and was struggling to find anyting for specific colors.

>>96142243
dark brown always works but you can also do a lighter/faded version of the base colour for lighter chipping.

>>96142586
Basically the highlight color.

>>96142008
I really like the color combo on these guys, the two metallics being fairly close in tone works nicely with the blue. Is the basing a textured paste? It almost looks flocked but I cant quite tell

>>96142237
Vallejo metal color silver