Thread 96167010

Work in Progress, "From Concept to Colour" 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:
>>96143312
>>96106935
>>96076966
>>96043838

I recently finished some genestealers, converted from the old kit.

rato

This project might have gotten out of hand at this point.

>>96167934
Very whimsical

>Wherever I touch a mini to move it on the battle field the paint disappears over time, despite it drying months, if not years ago
This is so frustrating. It looks ugly and I spent countless hours painting my army.

>>96168019
Thicken your paints.

>>96168019
Movement trays

>>96168019
Bruh if you're actually playing with your minis you need to varnish them

>>96168019
layer of gloss, layer of matt over the top. reapply matt whenever you see shiny areas.

>>96168093
>>96168110
Do I have to take proper "miniature varnish" or can I just grab this big fuck-off can of home furniture varnish for a buck-fifty

>>96168131
Use whatever you like. It's all the same stuff.

Is there a Vallejo/AP/other equivalent to martian ironearth?

>>96168019
>curse of the contrast paint
plastic fixed the chipping problem of metal models but now it came back with a vengeance

>>96168241
>contrast paints
I'm salty to this day I fell for this meme and actually tried to make them work as basecoats

>>96167547
hell yes

>>96168241
why do youse not just varnish bruz

>>96167732
Cool rats ! Just matt varnishing clothes, wood and base would improve the rendering by 50% I think.

>>96168110
>layer of gloss, layer of matt over the top
What's the point of starting with gloss?

>>96168241
What are you even talking about?

>>96168308
i always cake my models with thick spray varnish but the point is contrast paints are the current default go-to painting method that is beign pushed right now
telling customers you need to varnish this shit might be bad for business so everyone has to figure it out themselves

>>96168345
Gloss is actually sturdy, matte is not.

>>96168393
This is news to me. Damn.

Close to the finish now, weathering is done unless I decide to do some rust around chips. On to details that I've skipped.

>>96168326
Yes the varnishing is all over the place because I botched the rattlecan varnish and had to go over a lot of parts with Agrax. I'll also add some rust here and there and then varnish with a brush.

>>96168345
Read the entire post, not just the first sentence.

Last time you'll see this, I promise. Just finished up the left over space on the base. Painted some ice and covered it with resin. Scratched it up a bit and then put some snow on top.

>>96168881
>Last time you'll see this, I promise.
I don't think anyone here minds, this thread is posting wips after all. Looking good btw, my complaint earlier was the the crystals felt not entirely integrated with the base and now it's fixed. Nice job.

>>96168987
Thanks, yeah a bit of height on the base goes a long way. The snow powder blends into the plastic snow on the model surprisingly well.

>>96168881
looked nice before, looks even nicer now, well done.

>>96168881
Dude, I was once posting bellies of plastic girls models from Bandai and Kotobukiya for advice and nobody complained. It's "work in progress" thread after all and literally best place on this side of internet to discuss painting techniques of miniatures and models.

>>96168881
Keep posting stuff, it's fine, it's a slow thread anyway.

This >>96169275
I will also be posting pictures of 75mm goblin girls in the near future.

>>96169275
>bellies of plastic girls models from Bandai and Kotobukiya
Oh I remember those, I need to get one for myself at some point

>>96169275
>literally best place on this side of internet to discuss painting techniques of miniatures and models.
It's ridiculous how true this is. It seems like the only better option is to pay for 1-on-1 advice from professional mini painters or to literally just be irl friends with the in-group of GD winners.

>>96168393
gloss being sturdier is a meme

Here is finished test dreadnought piece. Maybe a little much on the shell impacts but I'll be more selective on the other armor plates so it doesn't look like a cheese grater

>>96169867
Oh I didn't realize before posting how washed out the front panel was you can't even see the impacts craters. Oh well, you get the idea.

>>96169867
great work anon
for comparison here are some basic drilled impact holes i made some time ago

>>96168450
great job, anon! how did you do the weathering?

Washing off the sins

>>96170002
Thanks anon!
For the hull, I did some oil filters/streaking by dotting a darker umbra at bottom, mixing with a beige tone near the middle and white at the top then just brushing downwards all around it with a large flat brush and some white spirit. Then I used some pigment powders where dust would accumulate around crew hatches.
For the wheel houses I painted them with a sandy acrylic and then added some mud texture paint along the edges and finally streaked some different earthy pigment powders on top.
For tracks I used a lot of sandy pigment almost as a wash then brushed it off when it dried and then added darker pigment towards the top of suspension and towards the back of the track where more fresh mud would accumulate.

Some retro-ish Flawless Blades I painted.

>>96170532
He looks so happy

>>96170532
are these prints because those proportions are really weird

>>96170745
Isn't that just how the new models are?

>>96170745
Its fairly new models by GW.

If I spray oil thinner/mineral spirits through my airbrush indoors am I going to die?

>>96170863
we're all going to die anon

>>96170863
all men die

>>96167934
Nah keep going

The slimes are the best

>>96168249
>>96168241
Get a life you fucking craftpaint loser

>>96168131

Hey, its your miniatures. If you get some decent satin varnish you should be ok. But don't get some bottom of the barrel type of varnish, that will ruin your expensive mini.

>>96170920
>bottom of the barrel type of varnish, that will ruin your expensive mini.
I use krylon gloss spraycan from wal-mart

>>96170920
>bottom of the barrel type of varnish, that will ruin your expensive mini.
i use maston 331 spray varnish from tokmanni

>>96170863
why would it be different that painting with thinner normally which is just bad for you. It evaporates whether you're airbrushing or not

>>96170909
I too, have a phone

>>96170931

And the result is... we are waiting anon...

>>96170995
Because it's a completely different chemical than... water?

>>96169867
This is hot as hell

Finished some more veteran dudes

>>96171028
ohh so thats how you were supposed to glue that melta bomb bit

>>96171123
Who is Faust, and why do you hate him so much?

>>96171133
Change your language setting to Deutsch

>>96171140
I've never even been to the Netherlands

>>96171007
i was comparing painting with oil thinner/mineral spirits with a brush as compared to an airbrush.
You think i'm comparing oil paint thinners with water.

>>96171157
Ooooh, okay.
I assumed spraying it as a liquid into the air was more acutely bad than just the fumes from the paint or thinner on a palette.

>>96171153
Not dutch, dood.

>>96171163
It probably is measurably worse and I imagine would give headaches quicker. Although idk. Ventilation is always a good idea with that shit

>>96144481
Damn, I was way behind on these threads. It would have to be this one, anon. This was my first and only attempt at nmm, and my first attempt at painting something that was strictly for display. I was quite proud of the result.

>>96171199
well done and even the visor has some character to it
just an hour ago i suggested to my friend how he should go to the library and get the complete case files

>>96144481
This is probably the thing that turned out the best so far.
It helps that this is like the only thing I've ever "finished"

>>96171261
Very cute. Gorgeous even.

>>96171261
Oh I remember you posting this as a wip. It's super nice and cute, that sakura tree works really well here

>>96171666
Thanks Satan. It's funny to me that it started as just the tree and the goblin girl came into it after the fact because that other anon broke theirs.

>>96171164
'e's 'avin' a giggle, mate

>>96171952
It's that legendary Steiner sense of humor

>>96171261
Very satisfying to watch.

>>96171028
Love 'em

>>96168881
Very very cool

Its been 1h30 I've been working on that globe, and it was not even painful !

Finished this guy tonight bar the base, need to pull my finger out for the other 9 though

>>96172272
Looks good. Nice oranges

another batch of printed tomb keks

>>96170745
GW decided to just quietly make CSM a few MM taller then on top of that gave EC high heels.

>>96172584
>just quietly make CSM a few MM taller
Yet for astartes they had to do a full fucking rebrand with an entirely new statline for the explicit purpose of invalidating the older miniatures.

>>96167010 (OP)
I remember some sheets from Citadel showcasing their basic colours recipes used on marine backpacks, but I cant find them anymore.

Does anyone have them at hand/know a link?

>>96172752
You mean something like this but with the space marines?

>>96167934
That just means it's time to go Two Fisted, anon! Keep up the good work, it looks great.

>>96172272
creamy bro

>>96172752
Doesn't your local GW just have a case of marines painted with every paint?

does this read as a forest floor or have i overdone the leaves?

>>96172804
I think it will translate well in a group. Single model looks alright though

>>96172795
>>96172770
It was basically a marine backpack with say, a base colour, a medium highlight and a lighter one, plus maybe or maybe not a wash, I dont remember.
Basically, their base eavy metal recipe.

I kinda wanted to give it a look because it showcased how the colours looked next to each other, and unlike box art it offered more variations ex black armour had more variants than the usual blue highlighted one it's usually shown on box art.

I remember ending up looking at them browsing on their site, but for some reason I just remember how I ended up there kek

>>96172272
Very nice work.

>>96172191
also nice orb

>>96172839
i remember the image you mean, you'd think that'd show up in a google images search but apparently not. which is a bit weird.

>>96172870
>heavily censored and monetized search engine has incomplete results
Shocking

>>96172804
Yeah looks like autumn forest to me. Nicely done.

>>96172870
yep Ive been searching for 30mins, I think GW removed them entirely from their site and no one bothered to save/share them after

no big deal I guess

>>96172890
i've just checked the citadel colour app and it actually does it for every colour

>>96172890
>>96172877
hold on, after this anon said that I swapped search engine out of curiosity and actually found them. I mean, still low res and just parts of it, but its a start

>>96172911
memory holing the pre-contrast world

>>96172917
You might be onto something. Oh well, cant find it in high res anywhere, but at least Im glad to know Im not crazy and this thing actually existed.

spikeybits com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Citadel-Painting-Chart-pdf.pdf

>>96172917
I have to memory hole it or I quickly become dissonant over the current paint landscape remembering how much better everything used to be.

>>96172911
Now you know that google is the current worst search engine in existence.
Basically any other search engine (as long as they aren't just using the google algorithm, there's a bunch that do) will do better.

>>96172752
>Does anyone have them at hand?
Yes. I swear I have the poster somewhere in this disaster area of a hobby room.

>know a link?
Yes
https://mega.nz/file/yIA22SoI#8KZtXvL-QAajpZugvNhZ_stZ1zXECaaeZLn01fq5JUs

>>96172804
i feel like I've seen this mini a lot and I don't know why. I'm getting deja vu

>>96173138
she's my test mini so I've posted her a couple times when I've wanted feedback on shit I'm trial-and-erroring like the black kerillian eyes and general color scheme

first time doing transfers

>>96173631
Are your Lumineth Realm-lords from Chamon?

My friend accidentally printed my minotaur at double size. So now it's going to be my Ghorgon.
https://files.catbox.moe/yvwvgr.jpg
https://files.catbox.moe/ns8wbf.jpg
I'm fully aware I suck ass at painting.

This is gonna be the main showcase damaged armor on the body section. I'll throw in some more surface level shell impacts when I have it more assembled and can get a sense of the balance of where the details should be.

>>96167010 (OP)
Tomorrow is my first time attending a local offline event. What do I need?

>>96173904
condoms

Assembled a team of five armigers with attitude

>>96173904
>What do I need?

>>96173985
Do we always have to argue over who should form the head?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMgsAD3D948

>>96173681
Is there a good spray on hardshell finish? I've always used dips but this is the first model that large I've painted. Or is a paint on finish better? Considering it's for actual games is gloss or matte better for life span?

>>96173681
Would

>>96173904
2 dozen hard boiled eggs, to share.

>paint for about a year
>did not improve at anything
>arguably somehow got worse at getting a clear coat on
>for some reason randomly some minis turn out exceptionally well before it goes back to the usual (the gods are mocking me)
>mfw

I'm having to sand down a magnet to get it to fit correctly, am I going to die if I breath in this dust?

>>96174203
yes for some reason these days every single thing kills you instantly or gives you cancer aids

>>96171028
How did you do the uniforms? I have some Fallschirmjäger to paint.

Blade guard shields… fuck my life. They suck. Not sure what else I can do to correct the white on the shield.

>>96174622
the trick to painting white (if you're not using a pure white undercoat) is for as little of it as possible to be actually white. you can get away with a lot of light grey (which are always easier to paint with) if the rest of the model is dark and/or bold colours.like yours. it just needs to be lighter than the highlight on the robe and a different hue.

a wash to smooth out the edges and add some definition could help a lot. apply all over then clean the flat areas with a wet brush to keep them brighter.

>>96172804
there is one too many leaves on that base. pull that one off and it's fine.

>>96174692
Would you recommend a wash to use?

>>96174622
A lesson we must all learn is to not paint white over black. It's a hard lesson. If you're ever going to paint white on your model, prime those parts separately as white. Also throw your GW whites in the bin if you're using them. They're just no good.

>>96172770
I need to get myself some contrast medium for my energy weapons

>>96172902
>bright wine aunt

Is there a way to reduce fitment issues when gluing resin parts together? The added material from the glue means parts never really fit quite flush.

>>96174792
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HX4zPCOBes&ab_channel=ClearMindJewellery%F0%9F%87%A8%F0%9F%87%A6

>>96173904
Never go to any local offline event, it's full of autists and spergs

>>96174811
It's cast polyurethane resin, not the UV curing 3D print resin

>>96174831
then use thinner glue or your gap filling methods of choice.

>>96167010 (OP)
I'm sick of using washes as a crutch, would drybrushing lighter shades of tan on pic related's uniform give me a nice looking blend?

>>96174706
i use army painter's dark tone as my all-purpose. apply, wipe away from the areas I want clean, then reapply some thin highlights after if things went oo dark. I bought a white/light grey years ago and it was one of the worst things I've ever tried to use. maybe there are better options now though.

>>96170863
Valar Morghulis

>>96171153
Honest kek

>>96174840
If you want fairly smooth and good looking blends you should try learning layering and/or glazing

>>96174840
Drybrushing is the opposite of a nice blend you FOOL!
I would start with a base colour, a darker wash and a layered highlight. You can do it anon, it will look leagues better.

>>96174716
Bt anon told me corax white is good

>>96174904
thinned with white ink, that's the important part

>>96174916
I never bothered with inks but I hear them mentioned now and then although you almost never see them used on yt guides etc, whats their deal? why arent they more common?

>>96174792
put glue on a toothpick and apply it with it

>>96174840
>>96174888
Ignore that guy. If you wanna work without washes, that's perfectly fine. Successive layers of lighter toned drybrushes on smaller areas will achieve a good looking effect but you do have to commit to blending your paints and being on top of making sure each successive blend is lighter.

If you work quickly enough this is easy enough to achieve by simply adding one drop of a lighter tone to your current paint mix.

>>96174792
First check by dry fitting if it isn't actually the parts themselves that don't fit together perfectly, because resin bits being that fucking precise would be a an outright bloody miracle.
Now if it is, use less glue, and switch to the thinnest CA glue you can find if you haven't already.

>>96174622
The trick to painting white is to not actually paint white, because in reality there are not many things in nature that are solidly white. Take my terminators here. No true white on them, just light shades of grey.

>>96175009
It's also good to lean more into blue-ish greys to make the "white" more interesting

>>96175018
Yup, the grooves on the terminator helmets I pinwashed with nuln oil then did a slightly larger area with a dark blue wash.

>>96175009
What brings a man to paint ultramarines?

>>96175009
that's still quite chalky though
>>96175038
blue is a nice colour

>>96175041
But there's just too much of it. It always looks so flat and boring. I'm sure there's some cool Ultramarine successor chapters that have some cool colour schemes that incorporate it.

>>96174792
>>96174998
btw if you're gonna file resin so pieces fit together perfectly you're gonna need a proper mask.

>>96175058
it's best to do it with the piece submerged in water

>>96174530
I'm lazy so I just mimicked a camopedia swatch close as I could then doused them with some marine juice (basically thinned brown wash with a little purple ink added, you can find recipes on youtube). The trousers are vallejo field grey over a dark camo green base, mix in some yellow for highlights then glaze it back down with the field grey.

>>96175038
Courage, and honor.

Honestly though, lore wise they are a really cool chapter. In game they have really cool characters.

Also, blue just looks good and is fun to paint.

I don't think GW should be normalising this approach to painting

>>96168019
Iv got models I painted 20 years ago that haven't faded at all yet Iv got models done recently since coming back to the hobby that do it constantly, I think there's something different about modern paints causing it

Ahem.

I don't think GW should be normalising this approach to painting

>>96175940
Not sure what shit you're trying to start here but GW isn't holding a glock to your head telling you how to paint your plastic toy soldiers

>>96175940
What are you talking about? I think it's good that they're encouraging kids to stick with the hobby, instead of letting them be deterred by their minis not looking as good as the grown-ups'. He's honestly not done that bad of a paint job for a 10 year old

>>96175940
Holy shit is this an official picture?
Oh my god it is

>>96175940
looks like your average army at the table, no shame at all in that.

>>96176014
You forget, /wip/ pretends to not know what averages are.

>>96176014
Really?

My club must be an aberration

>>96175887
>>96175940
>>96175978
>>96176033
all me btw

>>96176102
Nice "gotcha", you redditspacing cockmuncher. What exactly are we supposed to be seeing through your shitty blurred picture?

>>96176117
>What exactly are we supposed to be seeing through your shitty blurred picture?
I realize where we are, anon, but you don't *have* to talk like yer on 4chan. >>96176102's post is clearly an entry (or two?) in Armies on Parade or something like that, where even someone who *isn't* affiliated with Games Workshop knows to coordinate his paint schemes and neaten up his bases.

Looks like the display-board-with-counter-sunk-holes-for-all-models thing hasn't caught on at his club yet.

>>96175940
This is an official promo paintjob?
This looks like ass!

>>96171261
Wholesome gobbo

>he's still trying
kek

>>96176014
Your local 40kids paint their shit? Lucky you.

>>96175940
Contrast paint.... Perhaps I was too harsh on you.

>>96176213
your PBC is physically repulsive. good job, i love DG and how well-defined their aesthetic is

>>96176728
Paintjobs like this are the reason why Contrast Paint is a godsend for the average (i.e. bad) painter.

Fuck you tactical rock, you're just a big ol pile of mud now.

>>96176887
Kind of looks like a bigger rock, hehe.

>>96176906
At least it's not tactical anymore.

>>96176887
>>96176909
A tactical pile of mud.

>>96175940
when I was a kid even if I tried really hard, the fine motor skills just aren't there, look at the poor coverage of the mud, it's almost an impossible ask of a kid. I'd be proud of my kid if they managed to hold their attention still long enough to paint that. Mine looked worse until like age 13/14

>>96177008
>Mine looked worse until like age 13/14
Yeah but the person that painted those is an adult who works on the Warcom team.

>>96175940
>>96177047
I don't get it?

>>96177047
then that's pretty embarassing i guess

>>96177050
It's a poorly painted bunch of miniatures by someone who works for Games Workshop. There's not much to get. It's just embarrassing for GW and the person who painted it.

>>96177187
But why did they post it?

>>96177251
maybe a shitposter moment somehow made it through the corporate cracks

>>96177275
Does GW have a history of posting unfinished models, or showing other standards than 'eavy metal? Like in my experience they don't even show how contrast paint looks in official paintjobs.

>>96177187
>>96177275
Or maybe they just wanted to show that not everyone at GW paints their models to box art standard, you dense fucks

>>96177329
Huh?

>>96177329
Why would I even assume they do? Doesn't mean anybody wants to see that shit but by all means continue to characterise this as a wise move.

>>96174622
Think i’m gonna finish him and call him done. Put a lot of time into him.

>>96177373
*varnish

What do you guys use to transport minis when flying? I've got a Blood Bowl tournament I'll be attending in a few months. I've got a pistol case I could pack the team in, but if possible I'd like to avoid something that could get flagged for extra attention as I'm going through security.

>>96177740
I contract a private flight and hire a person to individually hold each mini wearing white gloves and making sure they only touch the base.

>>96177373
focus your camera.

looks good but camera pic is blury af

Ok, it finally came in, this expansion for the bloodborne board game. Im planning to make a mordheim warband out of bloodborne miniatures.

>>96177784
They are a bit slim next to Perry models, but I think they look about right scale wise, especially from a distance

>>96177743
I did that last year but it turns out the private plane and crew that I booked were a front for the white slave trade, so I was flown to Dubai and was violated for months by Arab Oil Barons before Jason Statham and a crew of super mercenaries rescued me from the licentious hands of the Arabs. Even since then I've resolved to fly Southwest only. I also keep a needle in my asshole, just in case.
So, miniature cases?

>>96177812
I'm sorry you had that experience. I can't say that's ever happened to me.
Yeah, miniature cases are also an option. I would probably carry-on if the size made sense, otherwise I would pack a case inside of a larger suitcase and use the clothes inside to pad the case.

>>96177829
Yeah the plan is to just stuff it into my carry-on with my clothes and such. The pistol case I have will absolutely fit in the carry-on but like I said, the concern is that one of the TSA monkeys will flag it for review and I don't like the idea of having my delicate miniatures fondled by the bottom tier of PG County citizens that are employed at BWI. I figure a more non-descript case would lessen the odds of that happening.

>>96177859
Just put a large sticker on it that says "NOT A GUN!"

>>96177893
>implying TSA agents can read

>>96177923
I hate that I have to share a society with these kinds of people and pretend that we are both equally valid.

What's your preferred superglue? Looking for something that's not super runny

>>96177979
Not only that, they can vote and will probably breed more than you.

>>96178075
Love this stuff

>>96178075
the cheapest one per weight at the supermarket

>>96178075
CA glue is a commodity good, so just buy whatever brand. There are gel types, and I prefer that because they stay put and fill gaps better than the runny stuff. Sometimes I buy gorilla glue gel and sometimes I buy bulk packs of little tubes that some people seem to like because the glue dries out before finishing it most of the time anyway so buying small individual ones is better than buying a big one.

>>96177859
100% the TSA will open that case and if they're inside, they'll inevitably break them when they slam the case back shut. There's so many horror stories of people who fly with funs getting their shit ruined by the TSA, ranging from 'they left my case unlocked' to 'someone stole my gun'.

>>96178075
I prefer relatively small packages, tiny ones for miniatures and small ones for terrain, I tried big packs and it mostly ended up with 80% it drying in the bottle. Maybe getting one big pack can be meaningful if you're working on a big project where you're going to need lots of superglue?

>>96178075
I once followed someone advice from here about buying one with small brush inside and store it in the fridge when not using and it worked like a charm.

I started this lady a few years ago and finally came back to her. Hoping to get the whole squad done in time for the /40kg/ collage.

>>96178075
Been using the Greenstuff World one, it's surprisingly not garbage.

>>96178631
>the /40kg/ collage.

>>96178900
Go whine about 40k in the 40kg. This is WIP

>>96177784
Did the Moon Presence break?

>>96178900
Come on man, /40kg/ is an absolute shithole but that's actually a pretty neat community initiative.

>>96178953
I don't want /40kg/ people to fucking dox me forever, thank you.
>Oooh, I recognize this painting style, or the mark on your cutting matt. I've just sent a swat team to your house.
No thank you.

>>96178989
You might be a bit too paranoid anon

>>96178922
hes not the one that brought 40k up, brainlet

>>96179019
I think I've posted models twice in 40kg and both times somebody posted my normal username. No thank you. Not the end of the world, but it's annoying and I don't like it.

>>96177784
like-scoob, fear the old blood, man.

>>96177784
is the boardgame any good?

>>96179180
Blood-borne.

>>96178937
thankfully not :)
>>96179199
I have no idea, i got it for the models

>>96179242
How did you get him to stay on the ceiling like that?

>>96179255
eldritch invocations

>>96172407
rust up them blades

>>96177794
maybe put them on lil riser bases to get the height up?

>>96178075
gorilla glue with brush

Painted this Trooper. 2nd model I've ever done, there are a few slip ups but what's your thoughts on the color scheme? Critiques desired

>>96179462
Rear angle o7

>>96179462
colors blend well

How come my pro-acryl paints say 'made in Canada' on them?

>>96179462
gj anon. next is to work on weathering

>>96179643
because that's where the were made?

>>96086125
Was just going to post this in the terrain thread but oh well.

Did up a second one of these in stone along with some XPS foam scatter terrain rocks. The scatter terrain I want to give an underlying base of clear plastic sheet, give it an extra lip around the edge and then glue static grass on, for blending into other terrains. Plus probably a bit of moss/other misc foliage on the larger rocks.

>>96086125
Was just going to post this in the terrain thread but oh well.

Did up a second one of these in stone along with some XPS foam scatter terrain rocks. The scatter terrain I want to give an underlying base of clear plastic sheet, give it an extra lip around the edge and then glue static grass on, for blending into other terrains. Plus probably a bit of moss/other misc foliage on the larger rocks.

Test model for my heresy army that I worked on today.

>>96180113
Dang it...

Here's a Battlemasters Ogre I painted up to be used as an Ogre Lord in Heroquest. Against the Ogre Hoard ogres in the background.

>>96180205
Fingerlicking so good. You have a grasp of light that I wish I had.

>>96180205
that bellygem is lovely

>>96180124
that bluey purple is weirdly enchanting. Idk if i've ever seen a paint straight from the pot like that.

>Stupid question I need to ask here.
Will an 0.5mm airbrush needle from another manufacturer be safe to use in really any different airbrush if all the parts are set up for 0.5mm airbrushing?
I bought a Chinesium airbrush and they have 0.5mm airbrush needles for different airbrush series, and the specific 0.5mm airbrush needle is always out of stock for me.

>>96174957
>I never bothered with inks but I hear them mentioned now and then although you almost never see them used on yt guides etc, whats their deal? why arent they more common?
Because inks are considered pretty old-school, while also being harder to control than Contrasts or washes. They're definitely worth the work in my opinion, I often mix a little white ink in with white paints to make it flow and bring up the color a little. Payne's Grey is good for blacklining mecha and making shadow tones.

>>96181406
They're also great for making homemade washes.
But don't be like me and try to deviate from Les' Bursley's recipe by using Ultramatte medium instead of matte medium.
That was a disaster and I finally had to accept I messed up and get regular matte medium.
Here's hoping it works as intended.

Got a airbrush machine. Waiting on the other stuff to arrive. It got put in limbo.

Hopefully I can start adding models in progress here. I want to prime with the thinnest possible primer.

Idk, tried to practice mixing some cute skin tones from scratch. Might delete later.

>>96175940
Slap on some nuln oil and it's good to go

Cap-toored for Kay-oss!

I was hoping someone would make a mini for her eventually, and it was one of my favorite companies that finally did.

>>96173681
Absolutely would.

>>96176117
>redditspacing
People thinking that spacing was invented on reddit will never cease to amuse me. Truly rent free.

>>96175940
huh, I don't remember painting for GW

>>96182170
you would have at least washed and drybrushed your models.

>>96181878
Her skin looks like the priming went wrong? Did you use a tutorial for the eyes or just winged it?

>>96181917

They don't know what reddit spacing actually is because they're reddit tourists. They weren't here before people started reddit spacing so they confuse it with double spacing.
This is reddit spacing, aka how people who didn't lurk before posting formatted their posts.

>>96181917
it's the only way to get a carriage return on reddit. people noticed a pattern that those types fucking sucked. at least ellipses-for-linebreak oldfags might have some wisdom to impart

>>96177784
o damn that's cool as fuck. How's the quality of the minis?

Little more work on overly-modeled dreadnought.

Sup faggots,
My airbrush turns into a watergun when my compressor gets hot
I know its because of the change of temperature how condensation works, and this shitty apartment is terrible at regulating temperatures.

Im only running a single water catch on the pump, is running one inline that much better?

>>96181710
>no tank
mistakes were made

>>96182813
have you ever purged the tank?

Suggestions on schemes for the top model?
Bottom pictures are the same model, I painted, but without a helmet. I really didn't like how it turned out (didn't finish the hair).
Looking to do silver armour and the rest some mix of blue, white, silver and gold. I can't work out where to put what where to make it look good.

>>96167010 (OP)
It was a pain in the ass to import this paint from the US to Europe and apparently the cap was damaged somehow and the paint partially dried (?)
Give it to me straight /WIP/, is there a way to salvage the paint, dilute it somehow?
Why the fuck is Dork paint so hard to get in Western Europe?

>>96183124
>Dork paint
https://elementgames.co.uk/paints-hobby-and-scenery/paints-hobby-and-scenery-by-manufacturer/turbo-dork
yeah, really difficult

>>96181716
It's impressive, but lord is it wasted on that shitty prime job. With your painting chops, it's time for you to move to lacquer primer or something. You need that smooth surface to paint on.

>>96168450
Excellent work! nice to see something historical in here from time to time.

Hows alex-wargames1?

>>96183124
>1st series TurboDork bottle
its so over

>>96183357
Seems to be related to Wartable Games, which is around forever, and has decent quality. Both of them have pics of bits on this green sponge material.

>>96180255
I know it's a squidmar video but this was when I first got started painting minis around 5 years ago. This video really helped me understand layering paints, especially with skin tones, to simulate depth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tJMKDDmZU

I pretty much use what he does with the skin here on every part of my model and have just refined it to my style. It obviously works a lot better with highly detailed new sculpts but it works well on old stuff, just harder to find the curves of the muscle since they aren't all sculpted.

This is a model I painted immediately after watching that video, as you can see I still hadn't really learned to thin my paints, that red loincloth is MUCKY. lol

>>96183560
>I know it's a squidmar video
I am not one of the butthurts in this thread that don't like his stuff. He's good and I find his tutorial stuff good even if he doesn't do a lot of them any more.

>>96183560
The skin looks very nice though

How often should I be having to refill my brush with paint? It feels like I can hardly paint a whole marine leg without running out of paint on the brush. Even though I've painted a fair bit over a few years, I still find myself struggling with the basics like this and thinning to the correct consistency. It makes base coating a nightmare and slows me down immensely since I'm having to paint 3-4 coats of most paints instead of just 2.

>>96183560
Oh I remember this color scheme. Very nice skin, anon. Meso-American is a theme that doesn't get used enough outside of Lizardmen.

>>96183830
depends a lot on the brush and the paint you are using, bigger and better brushes carry more paint and release it more consistently without flooding, heat/humidity also plays a part

> I'm having to paint 3-4 coats of most paints instead of just 2.
if you fell for the meme of priming black thats expected, very few colors will cover easily over that

>>96183830
>How often should I be having to refill my brush with paint?
As often as is needed.

>It feels like I can hardly paint a whole marine leg without running out of paint on the brush
If they paint doesn't last, try a bigger brush. Higher quality brushes usually give you the tip of a smaller, cheaper brush but more body (called barrel) to carry paint.

>since I'm having to paint 3-4 coats of most paints instead of just 2.
Some paints cover better than others. Some paints have a harder time covering over this or that colour. So the idea that you somehow always need this specific number of coats... nah. "Two thin coats" might be fine as a meme to get little Timmy to not just slob on one really thick coat all the time, but that's about as far as you should take it.

>>96183856
Right now I'm actually priming red for Blood Angels and after 2 coats I can still see the slightly darker red of the primer through the Mephiston Red I'm using as a base.
>>96183883
I think I'm just not thinning properly and it's getting dry on the brush faster than it should. I'm putting the paint on my wet palette, wetting my brush, taking most of the water out, then drawing paint out from the main portion. I haven't been adding water directly to the main body of the paint.
Or maybe it's a problem with how I'm loading it now that I think of it. Or both.

>>96183139
>https://elementgames.co.uk/
Well, shit. I searched and couldn't find any website that would both
1- Have Dork paint in stock
2- deliver in continental Europe
3- not for a ridiculous price
But I hadn't found this one, for some reasons. Thanks anon!
Now to find a website that sells individual sprues and delivers in Europe

>>96183922
reds in general are notoriously transparent pigments
>I can still see the slightly darker red of the primer
use that to your advantage, free shadows

Why is it that in so many videos I see involving a wet palette, the paint behaves way differently than on mine? The paint here is pulling back in on itself after it's spread out with the brush. On mine, the paint just sits exactly where I put it. I'm guessing it's a property of the paper they're using, but I have no idea what the difference is. It almost looks like what I'd expect if the paper were waxed.

>>96184112
While true, it's mostly on the flat, upward facing surfaces. So not terribly helpful for shadows. Plus I tend to miss at least some spots during priming so I try to get the whole model fully opaque with my base color before doing anything else.

My first ever paintjob. I have a nuln oil, but i think I am satisfied with how the mini looks now and i dont want to fuck it up any further.
Also, these decals are a bitch to apply, how do i prevent them from ending up wrinkled on the mini?

>>96184175
decals on round surfaces are always gonna be a bit of a ballache
https://youtu.be/L2TBhhAngUY?si=9qOfFfcJ5itHioKi
micro set/sol are the standard recs in terms of products and possibly start with a gloss varnish.

>>96180205
superb, this is exactly the style I aimed for in my fantasy army but you've pulled it off with a level of refinement and class I am still aspiring to.
>>96181046
Thank you! This made me laugh, the main blue in the mix is a speed paint named "enchanted blue"
>>96182496
I can't wait to see how it turns out! I'm painting a heresy era dread soon that I'll be posting in here, I was going to do bullet holes already but I'm stealing the glanced shell idea from you.

>>96183560
I really don't think the squidmar hate is fully justified, I can understand the style not being for some but I've learned a lot from some of their earlier videos. There are much worse hobby chanels out there.

>>96184249
i think it's more the life cycle of these channels moving from being initially helpful and informative to being more low effort content about the host themself and their "hobby journey" for easy views once established. The desperate algorithm chasing in general is also..well youtube ain't what it was to be but there are also only so many videos on the same shit that can be made beyond just actual painting models, (which the bigger channels apparently can't be bothered to do anymore) which once you know how to do that as a viewer, it becomes pretty redundant anyway.

>>96183577
>>96184249
Haven't posted here in a long time, I was just trying to bypass any comments about it, used to get flak back then. I don't really watch any hobby stuff but he was a good resource for starting out.

>>96183834
Yeah, it was a fun project but I got burnt out in the batch paint phase. I'll get back to it one day, focused on HQ now to have it painted to play with the kids.

>>96167010 (OP)
Does anyone know why my paint is cracking like this? It only happens when I'm airbrushing

piss team coming together

>>96184889
I don't know but it looks kinda cool.

>>96184889
Also is 91% Humidity fine for airbrushing?

>>96184889
Primer, paint and thinner not getting along perhaps?

>>96185020
...maybe.

>>96182496
fuck yeah tank aesthetics already very compelling here

>>96185054
Primer is mr hobby surface, and chinesium aliexpress paint
>...maybe.
What do you mean by maybe?

>>96184889
hard to diagnose without looking at what you are doing, but the common checklist would be
>cleaning model before priming to get mold release off it
>clean airbrush to get any kind of lubricant or whatever could be in there out
>carefully read instructions and check if you are using a thinner or something that might not work with your paint
Cracks like that can happen if the paint doesn't stick to the surface below properly or it is shrinking so much that it cracks apart.

>>96185020
I'm not an expert when it comes to that but that should just make the paint dry slower. I'd expect low humidity would be more likely to cause excessive shrinking in the paint due to faster drying times.

>>96185075
>and chinesium aliexpress paint

Maybe you should not use the cheapest shit if you want to have good results?

>>96185115
He definitely should've used craft paints instead

>>96185075
Chinesium is probably to blame, then. Test with a different paint and see if it has similar results.

>>96185075
>and chinesium aliexpress paint
That sounds iffy.

>What do you mean by maybe?
I could see such humidity messing with the drying of any paint that contains water as part of its solvent. But I'm not sure if fracturing seems like the way it'd go.

>>96184175
Hey I printed that same handle! It's such a pain to get the little grabbers aligned. But it's nice when it's together.

>>96185135
Cleaning airbrush is such a paint in the ass

>>96185241
You should only use your ass to clean regular brushes, anon.

>>96181710
Careful you don't overheat it.

Progress on bloodborne hunter warband.

>>96185863
Beast Claw is the coolest weapon in Bloodborne and you can't change my mind

almost there

sometimes feels like each thing i paint is worse than the previous one

>>96185999
that means you're getting better. your standards are evolving.

>>96182496
It's pretty impressive how just a little of uncle nightshift's texture and scorchmarks suddenly make it feel like a real, heavy fucking vehicle.

You heard of shit on a shingle? they call me piss on a pringle.

>>96184149
it's non stick baking paper

>>96186793
Does that property of the paper help in any way? I'm guessing by the video that it helps you see at a glance if your paint is about the right consistency.

>>96184149
its baking paper/parchment paper so silicone coated. desu it was the only type I ever used until I got some re-usable membranes. I think I prefer the latter type after using both as the paint does indeed behave more like an actual palette so it's a bit more coherent for mixing gradients but there are some advantages to having the water bead up, and it's a little easier to evaluate just how thinned something is by looking.