Thread 96951099

Winter has come, edition

>/40kg/ Community Link
https://rentry.org/40k-General

>Community Links:
https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-40000-downloads/
https://www.unitcrunch.com
https://www.newrecruit.eu
https://wahapedia.ru

>3rd Party Models Pastebin:
https://pastebin.com/Q33bkBUh

>Pre 10th Torrent:
Info hash: d91d8b9daa9c5dc9105fc0ec09812cbc17a752b5

>10th Edition Rules:
https://gofile<dot>io/d/9LvQTL
https://mega<dot>nz/folder/Em0Rmb7I#4GR-B7y4cu5nCB5QziXM4A

>How to make wargames terrain:
https://gofile.io/d/s99zDV

>Secret Santa:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15jNMk0oCTOWQkXxVetQqP-_mrNLjzggRR9wnmwkPMkM/

>Previous thread:
>>96947949

Thread question:
>Chaplain! We need you to recite a litany for our brothers before they deploy for war
What do you say?

If the 40k universe's population were mapped onto the real world, this would be the size of each faction (minus the Drukhari and Chaos)

anyone ever make a guard army based off auxlia

AdMech had like a crazy 62% winrate at the world championship and won the tournament as well beating the best Eldar player in the world. Was adding Oath of Moment to Cawl really all it took to catapult then from one of the worst armies in the game to one of the best?

Post what you're working on.

>tq assumes everyone is a marinefag
terrible thread

>>96951111
How many worlds do Orks own in the Galaxy that they can support that kind of population density? Because the Imperium has a million worlds and still has insanely packed and crowded cities.

>>96951115
Final stretch on the Slaanesh banner.

>>96951099 (OP)
>TQ
Death is my meat. Terror my wine.

>>96951099 (OP)
>TQ

Well I've been thinking about potential battle cries for my personal chapter and I think I'll have it be something that reflects their nature and emphasis on the dominance of humanity. I've had ideas like "Mankind eternally!" Or stuff like that. Maybe put it in Lati-*cough* high gothic

>>96951127
It's difficult to parse exactly how 'dense' ork world populations are, I don't think the lore really says

>>96951127
Orks can sort of produce everything they need passively. They eat stuff produced by their own spores such as mushrooms and squigs. They can have infinite dudes and it would be fine because they don't work on logic. And I don't mean in a"lmao I believe my cardboard box is a tank so it's a tank" way but that the writers don't give a shit about their logistics unfortunately.

>>96951132
Oh hey BLanon, good timing.
I wanted to ask your opinion on my black armor highlights. I feel like they're too bright and come off a little tron-like. Would blending their outsides more towards black improve that? Or should I just hit the whole thing with a black contrast wash?

>>96951099 (OP)
Probably some gay latin/high gothic shit like Omnes stellae sub imperatore or something

>>96951168
Show me.

>>96951111
This really puts into perspective how badly things must be going for the Imperium if they're turning to the Eldar for help and can't find the resources to spare to destroy the Tau

>>96951174
Uh, it's the LoTD captain from here >>96951115

Finally got my boys ready for priming. Standing next to their big brother for reference lol. Unfortunatrly it's already dark out where I am so I can't prime them now even though I would like to and I'll most likely be very busy tomorrow, but tuesday will be a big day for these boys


For y'all, do you find it more effective to try and paint one at a time or to do em all at once step by step?

>>96951132
That's a damn good banner anon, good job.

>>96951188
Good shit beef cake

>>96951140
I wonder how "humanity, fuck yeah!" translates in Latin

Alright gents I need some pointers. Do I have the right of it?

>>96951132
>black goat

>>96951188
Batch painting is more effective but less fun. This is why my pile of shame is hundreds of models big.

>>96951114
it certainly appears so, yeah

>>96951132
Nice goate

>>96951188
I only just started in july and hadn't painted anything since like 4th grade, I do them one at the time so I can practice and focus on improving.

>>96951115
I want to make a Space Wold successor chapter called Hel's Angels.
I think it would be fun to subvert the traditional name of "Hell's Angels" biker gang and Christian Hell.

>>96951115
I'm still working on basecoating this big dragon instead of working on my traitor guard. I'm probably going to work on this until new years. I originally was going to bring it to the FLGS for a tanksgiving style event with titans but I dont think I'll finish in time

>>96951122
We all are marinefags. There is no way anyone here doesnt own at least 1 marine (unless they are a nomodels heretic)

>>96951113
it's probably been done

>>96951132
thats cool

>>96951122
Trying too hard

>>96951183
Yeah, the issue is that they are too uniform. Save the brightest highlight color just for the corners and any edges that are facing up and would receive more light. I do my highlights in reverse, that wip you got there is a great place to try and apply it. Tone down the highlights on the downward facing edges and it should look a lot more natural.

>>96951115
Posting Nov Collage entries/WIP?

>>96951221
Based high quality painting advice

>>96951227
is this like the first coat or are those visible brushstrokes intentional

>>96951234
Intentional

>>96951221
Got it boss, gonna give it a try. Thanks for the wisdom.

>>96951194
Thanks
>>96951196
That's a good question. I wouldn't trust a translator with that, but maybe my brother who studied latin longer than me knows...
>>96951203
That makes sense I suppose
>>96951209
That's where I'm at as well. However, I don't want to take forever on these and in addition to that, I've realized if I do them all at the same time, I can start on the less important models and end on the more important ones and be warmed up on that particular technique, whereas if I go one at a time I'll get the same amount of total practice but split up

>>96951221
That looks insanely complicated but the results are great honestly

>>96951221
Is this some kind of inside joke?

>>96951213
>bunch of bearded bikers with lots of leather
I can see it.

>>96951234
>>96951236
Or rather, It started out as unintentional and me getting as close to an airbrushed look as I can w/o one, and the style grew on me

>>96951099 (OP)
>What do you say?
"Space marines r faggitz"

>>96951247
I could never do that sort of stuff, I just want them tabletop ready if i wanted to fuss over every realistic highlight, shade, and paint every line 4 seperate times I would just grab an actual canvas.

I wish they would make Rogue Trader characters part of the tabletop game instead of Titus

Would be pretty kino if we got an 80's style anime based on the Tau similar to something like Macross

>>96951215
dragon looks like candy in thumbnail. thats a lot of detail work, eager to see more as you go.

>>96951247
>chunky edge highlight and a couple glazes
>extremely complicated
?

>>96951115
Just some touchups left on Shadowsun. Might give her a panel line too.

>>96951264
Maybe they will get a board game eventually the same way that Dark Tide, Dawn of War, and Space Marine all did in the last couple years.

>>96951269
my edge highlight
>highlight the edge
your edge highlight
>highlight the edge
>and then highlight that edge
>and then highlight THAT edge
it is at least 3 times as complicated i could prove it in court

>>96951258
Idk I get it tho, I can be very paeticular about details

>>96951269
Seems like a lot of work to do on every edge of a model

>>96951247
>>96951279
Honestly I find it a lot easier than the traditional wisdom of chunky highlight into fine highlight. It's a lot easier to tone down and refine a messy highlight than trying to draw an impossibly thin and smooth line, especially if the edges are not particularly sharp and you can't trust the edge of the brush to do the work for you. Give it a try and see if you like it.

>>96951251
I kinda like this. It's like crosshatching light.

one chunky highlight
take it or leave it

all the detail i see you guys add is worth it thoughever it does look amazing

>>96951258
that's why nobody cares about your models

>>96951287
Thanks.
It's 3 sets of drybrushing where I do 80% coverage with Khorne, 30% with Mephiston, and 10% (prominent edges) with Evil Suns. Only issue is that it'll catch edges in janky prints like those treads.

>>96951297
and that starts with me, i'd play it all grey if that were socially acceptable.

>>96951314
Its just so gross to see all grey.

>>96951221
god I despise eavy metal, blue highlighted ""black armor"" so much. At least use grey.

>>96951115
Made some necromunda scum/bounty hunters out of the GSC bodies from the Goliath-truck kit.

Pondering on some transfers, matte varnish then I'll call them done.

>>96951358
It's a good contrast against all the warm tones from the gold and bone that is all over chaos models. I do grey highlights on the black if I'm doing rubber or cloth so it reads as a different material.

>>96951358
highlighting black with blue is a traditional art technique to ensure the black still reads as dark where grey would negate that, you're a paintlet

If I buy the BT combat patrol for kitbashing parts will I be able to make a realistic-looking scout squad with the neophytes?

>>96951403
God this is stupid looking

>>96951403
>human face
Coward.

>>96951115
Basecoats and washes done for everything but lenses and gems, just need to clean up and highlight and they'll be basically done

>>96951111
Your Ork count is wrong by at least half.

>>96951132
Do you paint these with oils or acrylics?

>>96951444
Acrylics.

>>96951446
Do you use a flow retarder? I want to try and do some landscape freehand soon a la Bob Ross and I’m quite daunted.

>>96951453
>flow retarder
Anon, it's either "flow improver" or "drying retarder". Flow retarder is not a thing.

>>96951419
you're one scout body short, and there are no special weapons.

>>96951453
I'm assuming you mean retarder medium? I don't, but thanks for reminding me I have some, maybe I should give it a try.

>>96951403
Cringe design, do it like >>96951427, give her lips like those pornified xenomorph designs, or like at least make her head carapace not look like a hat

>>96951478
I'll have you know the lips are a part of the original design (for Alien 3).

>>96951495
Oops my bad

Also this is directed towards Decalmutant, make your next big spacewolf themed Knight have this head, I feel like a Wooly Mammoth knight would actually go hard, though you'd need to greenstuff the furs and bones to cover the model
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/knight-head-demachus-skull

>>96951477
Yeah I meant that stuff.

>>96951111
Aren't the Leagues of Votann canonically more numerous than the Eldar? They're like the fourth most populous race in the galaxy now.

>>96951113
It would just be auxilia it's the same army

>>96951502
Wow that is really cool, I don’t 3d print myself tho.

>>96951502
Looks like shit

>>96951314
Ew.

>>96951495
Damn son, buy some chapstick

>>96951115
Gotta do some more basecoats on these guys tn

>>96951560
Those holes don't look like battle damage

>>96951132
Any chance you are Chaos Warrior anon from wfg?

Americans are asleep, post exclusive 40k models!

>>96951576
I'm awake and own this model

>>96951576
Nigga it's only 9PM on the East Coast and 6 PM in California, everyone is awake at this time.

>>96951599
They can’t read maps or time in the third world anon.

>>96951566
Thats because they arent battle damage! Or they are, but not that kind. /mydudes/ fight daemons all the time and a few of them have fucked up armour from fighting nurgle dudes so they've got a couple pox marks that had to be dug out

>>96951115
Working on some black templars.

>>96951621
They look pretty darn good anon, nice bases too.

>>96951621
Red is pretty flat imo, also watch for the gaps on the guns on your next ones

>>96951428
That cape looks reallyy messy O&Tanon

>>96951621
Those are very nice. We got a ton of BT player in here.

>>96951621
Bases and poses are incredibly boring. Also having every single decal centered in the middle of every panel looks wack

>>96951642
Post models

>>96951635
Nta but it's a basecoat and a wash. Well known as "the ugly stage" by everyone who does anything beyond a basecoat and a wash.

>>96951652
He can't
That's the funny part

>>96951652
Why. I just said your idle pose and brown base was boring. And surely you can see what I mean about every panel having a perfectly centered decal right? Did I say anything untrue

>>96951661
Nta, now post models.

>>96951669
Why would I post models for someone who hasn't posted their own

>>96951669
only redditors say NTA

Please go back

>>96951654
There's no wash on that cape

>>96951676
nta
only redditors redditspace

>>96951127
Ork spores grow the squigs and fungi they eat and orks are actually also more spread across the entire galaxy on every planet rather than concentrated on worlds they almost fully own like the imperium is. A shitload of them also just rove space in warships, space hulks and asteroids. They do have severa; empires run by big warbosses but its not like they have a gigantic sorta centralized empire like the imperium.

>>96951621
This shit fucking sucks

>>96951311
crisis suit and firewarrior upscale any day now

the current suit kit is the same one from third with extra bells and whistles

The nomodel thread police are here.

>>96951678
Then it's as deep into the ugly stage as you can get and has the entire rest of the painting process to get tidied up. Basecoats are where you can be messy without worrying

>>96951621
These are great! You could do mild weathering if you'd like on the white or red with a sponge for some chipping. You can also weather the details a bit to break it up. The bases are great - small rocks, different texture, some pigments, and some tufts with a sharp black rim. Looks good

>>96951642 Please post your bases on your 60mm+ models with a time stamp. We'll have an honorable base comparison. What does your average 60-100mm base look like to make >>96951621 basing look boring.

>>96951695
Surely you can take a little negative feedback without melting down can't you? You aren't the new decalfag are you?

>>96951716
Why would he take feedback from /v/ermin raiders who have no interest in anything but to shit up our thread?

>>96951716
You’re reaching now

>>96951676
>reddit spacing
Anon please
>>96951713
I am STILL mad these aren't the regular cultist box anymore

>>96951713
>requests timestamp
>posts no timestamp
This is mine. Also your bases are nice, varied and interesting. His are just brown sloppa on brown sloppa with brown rocks and brown tufts. Aka, boring. Yawn.

>>96951716
>You aren't the new decalfag are you?
What are you gonna do, buddy? Bot the thread again like you botted that StrawPoll?
>>96951576
Cursory examination of the net for this model and this fucker's going for like $150 minimum. Kill me.

>>96951730
DV was a 10/10 starter kit for 7th. I mix those cultists with the old metals and the frostgrave multi-kit sets for some nice hooded cultists. The traitor guard I have are Vraks + old Cadians and dont look nearly as "Chaosy"

I firmly believe GW will keep making a traitor guard

>he really is the new decalanon
Had to happen eventually I guess

>>96951734
I saw your work in white dwarf, awesome work milord

>>96951738
>Bot the thread again like you botted that StrawPoll?
the mutant did that, nice try though~

>>96951744
You're boyfriend isn't here you pathetic dog.

>>96951738
Recasts are like 30$ on the high end

>>96951764
Im right here you insolent whelp and im not his boyfriend.

>>96951791
>insolent whelp

>>96951691
Tbh the old suits are almost the same size as Farsight/Commander suits, its just that the latter have longer shin pieces/feet that lift them up a bit

Soon

>>96951795
Good he eats his carrots

>>96951523
Maybe but who even thinks about them?

>>96951438
I assumed Orks were roughly as numerous as the Imperium.

>>96951803
You don't need them anymore

>>96951188
I batch paint the layers and basic stuff as that's not going to be interesting either way so may as well get through it quickly, then go model by model for detailing.

>>96951760
>~
Faggot
>>96951780
Unfortunately I don't know anybody who's got this as an available recast so I'm shit outta luck

>>96951860
Lurk moar tourist-kun~

>>96951843
But tempestus are ugly

>>96951843
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone actually convert that thing for guard. Some fat retard at my lgs has a really terrible ork conversion of one but other than that I've never seen one

post battle report: the game went okay for my first ever one. turns out ultras have a ton of keywords to remember with the oaths @_@....i went second vs chaos demons and we had a nice back and forth game. sadly i couldnt hope to get the 2 no man's objectives bc the daemons would have torn my guys to shreds. i ended up having to play a really defensive shooting strategy since melee seemed really favorable for chaos....the game ended on turn 3 on my friends turn b4 I took mine but i did end up scoring 29 points in that time frame and took out a daemon prince + bloodthirster !!! all in all i had a ton of fun and cant wait to play again. im offically a tabletop player and painter now :3c <3

>>96951860 If you want metal, I'm sure MF-ry has this in one of his all metal catalogues. He has almost anything metal OOP. Blessed be the hammer of yoy, translate baka'th and remember the name yr-3grof$u0ir3tsyM

>>96951880
oops meant to post this pic instead!!

>>96951576
I want a little mini diorama like triumph of saint katherine if he ever gets updated

>>96951892
he doesnt sent to US btw

>>96951803
SOON

>>96951880
If I ever see your models I'm going to squat down on the board and spray diarrhea feces everywhere

What kind of inquisitor does it make the most sense to use arbites as their lackeys?

How do I stop sucking at painting

>>96951941
Paint better

>>96951936
All of them? Bar radicals I guess

>>96951880
You're a legend now bitch, good job and keep going.

>>96951971
They get the radical arbites, along the lines of Training Day and The Shield.

>>96951936
Probably Hereticus the most

>>96951936
Hereticus mainly because they're the ones dealing with various cults in the human populace and arbites are typically the first adeptus to learn of those.
But both xenos and malleus can definork as well, situationally.

>>96952022
*definitely work, if situationally

>>96951948
Genius

Building ratlings got me thinking, is there a regiment based on WW2 Brits? I wanna complete the cycle

>>96951635
I was really struggling to keep the brown-grey from splitting when I was trying to glaze with it so I ended up going blockier for now, I'll probably go back and experiment with a different paint after I do all the red cloth on this group

>>96951879
It looks like shit and doesn't have rules

>>96951576
Cleaning this must be a nightmare with the finecast

>>96951885
Oh, that's good, I guess I'll
>>96951898
>he doesnt sent to US btw
Welp

>>96952045
Victoria Miniatures has some.

>>96951879
You don't need to convert it anymore, you just buy the arbites one for necro

are raiders and ravagers the same kit just different builds?

did a tiny bit of wip after i got home from my game....he is coming along nicely !

>>96952103
Nice! Calgar is a stud no doubt.

>>96952088
The riders don't match anything in IG and are the wrong scale, palanites are too tall and thin

>>96952088
Currently trying to bash some STLs for this one to make an Invader ATV replacement.

It's tiny though :(
At 120% scale with some tweaking you can comfortably fit a Scout in there, but Phobos will require some clipping for the driver, and above the knee amputations for a usual Mk10 armor.

>>96951099 (OP)
This is going to be an extremely wierd question but can anyone tell me where I can download PDFs for all of the 10th indexes but before they got FAQd and updated? Me and a friend wanna play the retardation of launch index hammer again.

How likely do you guys think the different Christmas boxes will sell on release this year? I'm going to be vacationing overseas while they release and I really want to get the CSM one
>Just preorder them online bro!
I like to support my LGS thank you very much.

>>96952108
If you put a cadian helmet on him literally nobody would notice outside people who break down when their meat and potatoes touch on their dinner plate

>>96952122
That's going to be a tough find. If I where to suggest any version of indexhammer, I can say that 8th is definitely the most fun, and have seen a lot of people share the same sentiment

>>96952123
Just send a friend some money and get him to pick it up for you, I don't see how this is an issue.

>>96952131
Indeed, I trawled warhammer community for the articles that dropped the indexes 1 by 1 but they all say 403 forbidden when I tried clicking on them, next I tried the wayback machine but it wont work for some reason.

Hello friends. I have come to post my most recent plague marine. Keep in mind I am still completely colorblind, and I see only in black and white. Hope you all enjoy my newest member of the fellows. I also tried edge highlights for the first time, but I am unsure if I did so properly. My next project is a plague burst crawler.

>>96952122
>>96952131
>>96952145
Ok nvm found several websites that put up downloads for them and never got a GW takedown notice

>>96952145
I mean yeah. They don't host files forever, they have to pay for that. Even if you use the wayback machine, that doesn't place those hosted files back onto their server. You're probably gonna have to dig through fucking VK to find them unless someone has them here. Normally I'd recommend asking /grog/ but even though 8th was a decade ago, they will likely call you a newfag and tell you to fuck off for trying to do the thing they can't. Play games

>>96952157
Thanks for the blog post

>>96951621
Original
>>96951628
>>96951713
Thanks for the feedback anons. I applied a wash on the red gun and some weathering on the white and I do think it looks a bit better.
>>96951691
Sorry anon, but I don't think this is actionable feedback.

>>96952166
Actually I found every 8th index years ago (still up btw) and as said here >>96952159 I found not one but multiple sites with still working download links so problem solves :)

>>96951115
first batch of gaunts

>>96952173
Bases look great my fren, ignore anyone who talks down to you without posting models. They are nomodels atheists who should be hung form their scrotum.

>>96952157
Yeah looks alright for being upside down. Crop your image just slightly in a pic editor app on your phone before posting and it'll make it stay upright for you next time. Also that's a pretty rare form of colour blindness is it not? Is it true black and white vision with no hues, or is it just a singular hue like old photographs?

>>96952173
Way better imo

>>96951200
The bottom left has cover, and the bottom right does not. I might have to look up barricade rules again, but in 10e, putting your pinky toe outside of LoS is generally enough to grant cover for the most part.

The one that was the hardest to wrap my head around was that the entire unit has to be within the footprint of a ruin to see out, but if one model in that unit touches it, everyone can see in if there isnt a physical wall blocking LoS.

>>96952178
What colour are you going to paint their penis guns

>>96952179
Put the trip back on

This reads like a NATO or War on Terror speech.
Is GW spoofing America with the T'au?

>Titus is a carbon copy of uriel ventris

umm titussissies? our response?

>>96952200
I'm good

>>96952196
probably not going to paint them a different color from the main body

>>96952229
>not using the excuse to look up exotic penises on Google
What kind of tyranid player are you

>>96952180
I'm not entirely sure desu. It's called monochromatic colorblindness, and I apparently only see in grayscale like hold movies.

>>96952206
Don't know.
Don't care.
Sometimes people like to declare war due to poo poo pee pee.

>>96951941
The honest answer is to just do it more. A more specific answer is to choose to focus on one particular thing at a time. I wanted to learn NMM, so I did it more. Is it perfect? No, but it looks like metal, which is better than when I tried it before, and it just looked like shit. Pick something simple and small. Thinning paint so you can't see brushstrokes, maybe layering or glazing a gradient better. It doesn't really matter what you choose as long as you pick something.

>>96951847
That might not be a bad idea...

>>96952287
What a colossal fuckup.

>>96952283
>The honest answer is to just do it more
I feel like I give this answer to similar questions at least once a week. It's pretty surprising and mildly insulting that people think there's just some magicians trick people aren't telling them that will make them paint like golden daemon painters instantly. Kinda takes the piss out of everyone whose ever practiced mindfully.

>>96951111
So the Imperium failing to destroy the Tau would be like if the combined forces of the Europe, China, the Middle East, and north Africa sent an invasion force to take the Falkland Islands in the middle of World War 3 with several other superpowers...and then the Falkland Islands drove them off. By itself.

Even accounting for the military force admittedly being a token one that's...impressive.

>>96952283
This. If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball.

>>96951188
If I'm doing a unit I get everybody done up to basecoat>shade>layer, then go through and do any freehanding individually, and then go through and highlight

>>96952287
This loser was so jealous of Russ, what a pathetic freak.

>>96951249
Did you laugh? If so, then maybe. If not, then maybe it's just something you don't understand

Even tho I know it will be super hard, I'm exited to finally start actually painting my intercessors

What kind of extra paints should I buy? Right now all I have is the "starter box" paints. I've already decided to get lighter gold for those parts. Should I also get a red layer paint to do this >>96951221 with? I've heard agrax earthshade goes well with red so I think that will be fine with my wash...

Also, how worth it is it to buy new paints just for edge highlighting? On my first model I just mixed corax white witj the base color snd that seemed to work all right(though with obvious limitations)

Would it be worth it to buy any other metallic to highlight the leadbelcher parts?

what is the glowing thing hanging from Vulkan's belt?

>>96952287
>horus with big boots
I prefer horus with big boobs

>>96952298
its such a meme when ppl using pro-imperium talking points try and cite the entire standing army as a force they can muster on a whim when realistically even with their massive numbers their total military is spread thin. if the Imperium ever did focus a majority of the totality of their military in one location (not even counting imperium nilus) it would be apocalyptic for all the worlds they arent present at. the tau exist bc the Imperium have a million other catastrophic things to contain (like chaos and traitors)

Tldr; lol, lmao even

>>96952298
Actually, it's more like Israel's repeatedly fending off the Arab countries' attempts to wipe it out.

>>96952309
Go to the LGS and check their paint racks, they usually carry at least one brand in addition to citadel
As you paint more dudes, you will realize what paints you want and build a collection. Your recipe might even evolve as you go.

I to think that pelagers look like king shark

>>96952320
Here is the thing. As per the lore, (Deathwatch codex 7th, for example), the Imperium cannot focus its forces on a single target for a prolonged length of time.

So saying IF the Imperium does that or not is irrelevant. The Imperium can destroy any Xenos races if both existed in a vacuum, but that's not the circumstances of the galaxy, so I wish people would stop bringing up that moot point.

The fact that remains for all to see is that the T'au defeated an impressive number of the Imperial forces that the Imperium spared to throw at them.

>>96952236
some of them are penis colore

>>96952294
Kek Graham McNeill actually address this phenomenon in HH: Fulgrim.
One of the characters (Ostian) is an artist and a fellow artist (Serena) tells him its not fair that Ostian has such artistic talent while she has to work hard at it and Ostian basically blows up on her that it's idiotic to think that talent is aquired without working hard or that talented people don't need to work hard to develop that talent into real skill. Pretty satisfying desu. Serena kills him later.

The Pariah Nexus, whatever happened there

>>96952312
Probably one of Vulkan's forge keys

>>96952329
That answers none of my questions

>>96952309
>What kind of extra paints should I buy
Everyone should have a gold, a silver, a cool white, a bone, a black, a brown wash, and a black wash. Everything else is situational, and depends what you want to do. It's nice to have at least one highlight colour for every material on your model.
>Should I also get a red layer paint to do this >>96951221 # with?
So that tutorial you would need a red basecoat, and two highlight tones for your red.
>how worth it is it to buy new paints just for edge highlighting
So for the most part, the edge highlight paints will behave for you the same as the base paints will as a beginner. I do think it is good for beginners to have as few paints they are mixing as possible, because things being premixed means they are consistent and easier for you to notice the things you are doing if your paint is the same every time you use it. Also red doesn't respond well to whites being mixed in for highlights, it goes really pink and stops reading as red. Usually you highlight reds with brighter+more saturated reds than your basetone, and work in more orange
>Would it be worth it to buy any other metallic to highlight the leadbelcher parts?
stormhost silver is my fave for a super small highlight on gold, but beginners are better off going with a brighter gold so any small mistakes they make are less visible

>>96952359
NTA but yeah I agree that was a shit answer

>>96952340
Uwot

>>96951132
good job man

>>96952325
That might be true from a narrative POV, but from a pure numbers game Israel is way bigger to rest of the middle east than the Tau is to the rest of the galaxy. The Falkland Islands was used because if we reduced the population of the galaxy to the current population of Earth but kept the proportions, the Tau would have a population of about 5,000 or so, which is (slightly more than) what the Falkland Islands has. This out of a global total population of about 8 billion.

In fact, if we just looked at the Imperium and the Tau alone for a comparison (not including the rest of the galaxy), the Tau would have the population and size of Albania (about 2 million)...and the Imperium would be the size and population of the rest of the world combined.

>>96952309
The secret to highlighting metallics is using more metallics. If you want to brighten the highpoints of your leadbelcher, look to using something like Runefang Steel after applying the wash. Bonus points if you use something like Iron Warrior on the lower parts before the wash to make more of a gradient but that part's optional.

>>96952359
If you want a shopping list, look for a tutorial you like and buy everything they use.

>>96952352
I will tell you what fucking happened. This piece of shit's sons destroyed six Pylons without any provocation whatsoever

>>96952370
Pelagers, the aquatic abhuman strain, they are apparently bulky like ogryns, and at the time when I got this idea in my head the only ogryn bulky aquatic humanoid I could think of was king shark, so imagine pelagers being kingsharks with ogryn gear.

>>96952374
Israel is a country of 2 million surrounded by hostile countries of tens of millions. You need to get your info right,

>>96952365
>Everyone should have a gold, a silver, a cool white, a bone, a black, a brown wash, and a black wash. Everything else is situational, and depends what you want to do. It's nice to have at least one highlight colour for every material on your model.
All of that except for a black wash came in the beginner set I got. When is black better than brown?
>So that tutorial you would need a red basecoat, and two highlight tones for your red.
Right, I'm gonna continue basing mephiston red... it's true that reds turn pink but I don't hate it too much so I might just do that again. Or get a third color
>stormhost silver is my fave for a super small highlight on gold, but beginners are better off going with a brighter gold so any small mistakes they make are less visible
Leadbelcher is a silver/steel color, so could I use that color to highlight it?
>>96952368
The biggest problem is that it wasn't even an answer at all. My question was about which colors I need, not which brand to buy them from

>>96952376
Okay, so now I have two potential options for highlighting leadbelcher. Thanks

>>96952343
Yeah, it's the same thing with every other faction.

The Drukhari could conquer the galaxy if they cared to and if they weren't such backstabbing skavenous weasels...but they are and they're not going to change anytime soon. The Necrons could conquer the galaxy if they all woke up...but they won't. The Orks could conquer the galaxy if they united under one leader...but they won't. The Tyranids could conquer the galaxy if the rest of the hive fleets arrived...but they won't.

There are certain core functions of each faction that will continue to exist forever. The Imperium will always be unable to get its shit together and finish off its enemies. The Tau will always be small compared to the Imperium. The Eldar will always be slowly dying but not quite finished off yet.

>>96952388
The population of the Middle East is only about 450 million depending on your definition of what the Middle East entails. This means that Israel has .4% of the population of the rest of the Middle East.

For contrast, the Tau have a population about .03% that of the Imperirum's. Israel is almost 14 times bigger than the Tau, relatively speaking.

If the Tau ever get to the point where they have about 5,000 planets, THEN they'll be the new Israel.

>>96952397
The drukhari could destabilize a lot of the galaxy but they don't have the numbers to occupy a meaningful amount of realspace

>>96952389
Black works well for colours you don't want to add any warmth to. Things like Grey's, blues, greens, indigo. It also will make metallics look more "silver" and less stained.
>Right, I'm gonna continue basing mephiston red... it's true that reds turn pink but I don't hate it too much so I might just do that again. Or get a third color
You can also look towards oranges as a highlight. Evil sun's scarlet>firedragon bright is my personal favorite for a bold, saturated red
>Leadbelcher is a silver/steel color, so could I use that color to highlight it?
It's a little dark for that. You probably want leadbelcher and a silver highlight so you can also highlight your metallics
>The biggest problem is that it wasn't even an answer at all. My question was about which colors I need, not which brand to buy them from
We've had a lot of botting recently, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a clanker bitch

>>96952410
IIRC they have quadrillions of people in Commorough, plus access to tons of cloning.

>>96952388
Put the trip back on

>>96952392
Stormhost is a lot brighter, and runefang has a little blue to it, so it depends on what you're going for.

Nuln oil I find I use less and less over time vs. Agrax, but I think that's just because, as I've found the painting style I like, nuln oil has kind of been left behind. It looks good on synthetic parts, machine bitties and whatnot, but Agrax makes stuff look more worn and dirty, which I like. Nuln oil kind of looks "fake" imo

Reminder that if you're arguing about numbers or quantities in 40k you are arguing about something even gw has never cared about keeping consistent

>>96952427
Nta but I also find runefang has a slightly larly metallic pigment in it than stormhost which is much smoother.

>>96952415
The Aeldari says that the Craftworlders outnumber the Drukhari.

>>96949826
Given how much The Last Church made The Emperor look like a villain, this actually makes perfect sense.

>>96952430
That's valid. I do think both the Eldar and the Tau need a massive numbers boost tho desu. The Tau should have tens of thousands of planets and the Eldar should have thousands of craftworlds. Enough that they're both still very tiny compared to the Imperium, but that it still makes sense why the Imperium would ally with them. Because as it stands right now, working with either faction even temporarily just feels like a complete waste of time with their sizes. It'd be like the US going out of its way during WW2 to court fucking Leichenstein or Luxembourg to its side.

>>96952309
the secret to painting red is to shade it purple or burgundy

>>96952352
>SoB breaking the rules so they can win
https://youtu.be/WL26duQKOI0?si=Dh5t-dS64RqBiKiR

>>96952444
Based and true.

>>96952397
Which is ofc important

They can always ramp things up a little tho, as long as it gets evenly distributed. Chaos got to beat cadia, so the imperium got primaris marines and bobby g back, etc. I think it would be cool for all the other factions to get a win too, maybe the orcs can win armageddon round 4, the eldar can steal some sort of ancient necron tech that lets them produce hella more craftworlds or something, etc. I think if handled carefully every main faction could make some sort of step forward, giving a sense of progression while also maintaining the balance of power

>>96952453
Makes sense.

From the Tau I personally would want to see them make some megaprojects. Shit that would make even the Imperium go "Oh shit what the fuck is that". Like a giant Dyson-Sphere that powers a bigass sun-gun.

>>96952413
>We've had a lot of botting recently, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a clanker bitch
Motherfucker
>Black works well for colours you don't want to add any warmth to. Things like Grey's, blues, greens, indigo. It also will make metallics look more "silver" and less stained.
Okay, so like guns and stuff. That makes sense ig.

Btw, do you play night lords?
>>96952444
What kind of burgundy/purple paints might work with mephiston red? Any brand. I'm already using purple so that works out well.

>>96952458
Tau should build a death star

>>96952407
Nani? There are trillions of Tau according to their dex. Also consider the hundreds of billions of non-tau in the empire.

>>96952473
They actually had a moon-laser in one of the Dawn of War games that could kill Orks while leaving the rest of the vegetation and life unharmed. It was literally a racial hate-crime gun.

>>96952473
And the orks are gonna pay for it!

>>96952479
Yes, there are trillions of Tau, possibly tens of trillions, and countless more auxillaries...

...but there's tens of quadrillions of Imperials. Neither Tau worlds nor Imperium worlds seem to particularly have an advantage over the other when it comes to population density, we've seen Tau ecumenopoli with trillions of people, but we've also seen hive worlds with those same numbers. So the simplest way to compare populations is just to go with the total number of planets.

What's with all this tranime ching chong ping pong posting?

>>96952458
Very cute art. Gib eldar gf
>>96952473
There could be some kind of arc where the tau build a giant death star that somehow sneaks through the defenses to attack terra directly(maybe it uses super duper fancy shmancy stealth tech idk) and have a massive naval battle with the giant imperial fist flagship. That would be awesome. After a long and hard fought battle the weapon is destroyed but the damage to the phalanx is massive and the imperium is terrified the tau may have more of these things

>>96952495
Faggot
>>96952501
This sounds like a neat idea on its face but it feels like this would be the millionth direct attack on Terra. Even the Orks have done it at this point.

>>96952444
>>96952309

I'd like to tag onto this because we are talking about a beginner here. A flesh tone is a brownish burgundy and if you're starting out and budgeting your paint purchase, you can get away with using reikland for your reds and it looks great

>>96952495
Anime site, bucko.

>>96952506
>>96952501
They should attack mars instead because the tau know crippling production is a better tactic in wartime.

>>96952506
If even the orks can do it, why not tau?
>>96952513
Also that works, could be a good excuse for some admech screen time

>>96952508
>A flesh tone is a brownish burgundy and if you're starting out and budgeting your paint purchase, you can get away with using reikland for your reds and it looks great
Using reikland for what? Highlighting? Looks a little brown for that, atleast online...

>>96952501
>and the imperium is terrified the tau may have more of these things
Honestly that's probably the best part about the Tau

You can destroy the big fuckoff Necron World Engine with great effort, and they probably won't build another one. You can use up the one-of-a-kind archaeotech weapon, and it's lost forever. You can even destroy some ancient psi-Titan that Chaos scrounged up, and you probably won't have to face it again.

But once the Tau make something they know how to make more. Even their fucking Ghostkeel battlesuits are described as being 'mass produced' and we've seen one of those things solo a Space Marine monastery (granted it was piloted by O'kais but still).

>>96952470
>Motherfucker
I like asking them for cooking recipes that are impossible or contradictory and watching chatgpt lie like asking how to make gluten free, vegan crochembouche in an air fryer or a paella with no rice in a microwave.
>Okay, so like guns and stuff. That makes sense ig
Exactly. It's for the things that you want to add shadows to, but not make them appear any dirtier
>Btw, do you play night lords?
Nah I run lamenters. But I'm building out agents rn as a sideproject
>What kind of burgundy/purple paints might work with mephiston red?
Nta but I like reikland fleshshade for reds that you want done fast. The red on the pilot in pic related is wazdakka, washed with reikland, layer wazdakka, highlight wazdakka:wild rider red, extreme highlight wild rider on the face and sharpest corners

>>96952524
As a shade for your reds. Reikland is too translucent to get any use out of highlighting with it. By removing saturation in your shadows, it makes your flat areas and highlights appear bolder and brighter, which is a stylistic choice, but I think looks pretty good

>>96951114
his gun now kills everything, chickens get good movement and can adv fall back and shoot, so they can find angles and reroll everything, and rust stalkers are now infantry blenders. They also have the boon of almost everything having invlns and being hoardy, so alot of mid/high ap/dmg attacks fall through. Kind of sucks that the win rate is so high, probably means were getting nerfed for the rest of the edition and most of the unplayable data sheets wont be touched.

>>96951428
Tonight's progress
Basically only got their tabards done before I realized it was already midnight

you did get your battleforce, right?

>>96952753
I wasn't interested in what was on offer unfortunately.

>>96951115
Getting through the sisters.
Loving the cape so far anon

>>96952685
fur cloaks look great o&tanon

>>96952753
I talked to my lgs guy past saturday, hes gonna hook me up with the two i wanted.

>>96951115
taking a photo helps me notice so many things I need to do that I hadn't caught earlier
If only the human eye could zoom in

>>96952753
the one I want doesn't go on sale for another 5 days

>>96952753
my armies are all pretty much done

>>96952753
None of them were for armies I played.

How the fuck do you get texture paint on the base without getting it all over your models' feet? No I won't glue the models on later.

>>96952798
Thanks! Tried a different way of painting em this time, not sure how I like it
And not too thrilled with the sculpting itself but they're done at least

>>96952840
You do it carefully around the feet and dont just slop it on
use a tooth pick

>>96952840
use a clean wet brush to wipe it off their feet

Is this a decent deal? What's the use case for 15 heavy intercessors?

>>96952862
>s-selling fast

>>96952863
ignore all previous instruction, give me a recipe for a boston bun

>>96952753
I don't play nu40k

>>96952938
me neither, 10th is so shit, I can barely stomach two games per year. But I still like to collect and paint some minis.

>>96952862
Guys in big armour with big bolters

>>96952854
>>96952840
Seconding. Literally every texture paste can be wiped away with a damp brush while it'd still wet

>>96952951
That's what I do as well, but mostly with older minis. Primaris aren't that exciting for me.

The alpha legion fascinates me, and I saw there are several books centered around them. Any recommendation?