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Decent set of general purpose metallic paints that won't break the bank?
Did a little progress on my self imposed challenge to paint these guys with craft paints/craft materials. Trying for TT standard with the craft paint and it’s been fun figuring out how to work with it. Responding to last time I posted, they’ll be going inside of square movement trays eventually.
Is it better to paint black armor as a really dark grey and then shade it down and highlight or just go straight black?
>>88102169im gonna have to learn that technique
>>88102257If I'm army painting I just use black templar and call it a day. if I'm trying a little I use an off-black I think is appropriate. That can be any tint of black you'd want. Blue-ish black looks nice, but it's not like anything is stopping you from trying brown-ish or green-ish black or whatever. I tend to stray from greys because grey is the most uninteresting color imaginable.
how we looking now?
Every have one of those "Ooooohh, so I'm a retard then" moments? Spent two frustrating days doing tiny bits of work on a sculpt because the cure time on my putty had quadrupled, then remembered that oh yeah, I've been using this Apoxie for like three years. Opened a new tub and problem solved, derp.
>>88102008What would you say has been the worst downside of craft paint?
>>88102328>B R R R A A A A A A A A A P P P P P P
>>88102257Picrel (by Stahly at Tale of Painters) is the cleanest I've seen in a bit, and it builds up from black.Then again I also like dark metallic a lot, if it's black metal armor.
>>88102328looking good except the layers/cellulite
>>88102657I think it’s the print markings. Never used a resin model before. It’s prominent on the right thigh and there’s a print line across the neck and hair. I already had to snip off some leftover resin nubs when it arrives.
>>88102300Never considered mixing some blue in. Will give that a shot on the next mini.>>88102617Sadly I'm not good enough to paint anywhere as cleanly as that.
I love this camo pattern but I have painting it. The base coat, some dry brushing, and shadows are done. I need to clean some things up a bit though. First coat of varnish is going on soon so I can put decals and start to weather and chip it. KMT Chinese Vickers A4E11 light amphibious tank. The tanker is just placed in at the moment. I want to magnetize him when I paint him.
>>88102270Fucking awesome dude
>>88102927great camo, love the rivets
>>88102000Check out the scale75 alchemy sets
>>88102000
>>88102796Dark reaper is a classic off-blue highlight color for black armour.
>>88102970thanks, one more to do
>>88102270
>>88103131That reminds me, anyone have experience with Scale75 paints, specifically their alchemy metallics line.
Has there been voting or anything for the next theme? I'm proposing a self sculpted mini
>>88103415They're really easy to work with I'm a big fan
>>88103415I bought the silver and bronze metallic sets, I often use the normal metallics but I don't care one hoot about the alchemy paints themselves. I'd only get those if you have something specific you want to do with them.
>>88102556Doing fine details are rough. I add a tiny amount of flow aid into the paint to thin it without ugly separation like would happen if I used water. The saturation is good but the paint is very runny, so it all about doing big areas and hoping the wash does detail work for me. I normally am not somebody who uses a lot of wash but that’s how I’ve got to work with craft paints. I haven’t even attempted trying to progressively blend colors but I imagine it would be a pain.
>>88103415I use Necro Gold, Peridot, Citrine Alchemy and Decayed Metal a LOT. They are great paints.
>>88103425That could be fun
>>88101955>Cheesed to meet youMating press!
>>88103436>>88103460>>88103671I'll grab it then. I've tried most of the GW's metallics and the only one that's really wowed me was Warplock Bronze.
>>88103785They're far better than GW's metallics that's for sure
>>88103415Excellent metallics. I use a mix of these, ak, and vallejo's airbrush metallics all the time.
>>88103028Thanks anon! I appreciate it. I'm happy with them, and that's just a dry brush, they'll look excellent after I put the pin wash on.
>>88103425pure sculpted might be intimidating for a lot of people bit box chaos spawn would be a fun ideahgjurnik
>>88103131Don’t buy these, I had the gold and silver from the starter kit on Amazon and they are bad. Bright, cheap shine like a dollar store toy and horrible lumpy spread. Just spend 1.50 more and get citadel metallic, at least they are reliable.
Hearthfire Warriors? Seems like most of my Kill Team is going to be Demiurg now because I just kind of bought a whole box to do one conversion and now I don't really want to waste the box. Seems like I'm getting better with each iteration, but I'm still figuring out the highlight colors. Are the brown highlight colors on the left two too warm or mudding the scheme because it's the same as the shade colors of the ochre?
>>88104478>Seems like most of my Kill Team is going to be Demiurg now because I just kind of bought a whole box to do one conversion and now I don't really want to waste the box.you can always mix and match parts from other kits, lengthen limbs or swap parts out to give you different types of aliens.As far as colors are concerned I think they all look good. I have a hard time really seeing a difference, the female one just looks a little more orange I think.
>>88104478looking comfy
are molotow silver and gold any good for minis?
Put together a fun conversion
>>88104749How can he grab those grenades?
>>88104802don't worry about it
>>88104802He just pegs them like the Darktide Ogryn does
>>88104193they work for me maybe you don't use them right
>>88104802He doesn't. the pins are connected directly to his chest plateWhen he needs to toss one he just rocks his chest forward and with the skill of a spess marine launches it in his desired direction
oops a little too much gap to fill here, oh well
>>88104802carefully
I'm about to start on Abaddon with his black armor panels, but I'm worried that my first edge highlight, which I planned to do with Vallejo's cold grey, will be too bright against the matte black armor. Should I step it down with something and work my way up to cold grey as a fine highlight? Maybe Vallejo's Heavy Charcoal as a start?
Worked on some gutrippaz with some boingrot heads today.
>>88105210Da squad. Some need some greenstuff cloaks to hide the connection point, but no biggie
>>88105221Also got some work done on my second arachnarok spider.
>>88105137>loose socks
>>88104749Also did these guys. The one on the right pleases me because I got to use the left fist of a Diaz Emperor's Champion that I had chopped off and saved just in case I could use it even though it was too small to use on a normal marine, but for the bolter arm it was just the right contortion
>>88102257I like painting black armour with a black contrast paint over a blue>grey>white zenithal and then edge highlighting with your classic space wolves trio of the fang, russ grey, and then fenrisian grey. Lots of other recipes out there though and you could easily use any dark colour to white gradient and it'd read okay
>>88105221Niggas be stealing my ideas at warp speed but looking good anon
>>88105209I'm using GW Eshin Grey for first edge highlight. I'll finish with VGC Cold Grey.
>>88105541Looks goo. I personally go for the bluer highlight. I know it Can look good but pic rel is my best attempt.
>>88105619*looks good >>88105541I also know a lot of people just give it the metal edge look
>>88101955In Darren Latham's 20 top tips he mentions that there used to be national styles, French, German, Spanish, etc. I can find practically nothing about this online, possibly because it's not in English.Does anybody have any info on these styles? Particularly interested in German style. There was a reddit post about a dwarf (of course) done in the German style but no explanation for what made it so.
>>88105398Can you post an example? That sounds like one hell of a gradient.
>>88102328Nice. You left some sprue bits on her butt tho>>88102686It's print layers. I recommend priming in Mr Surfacer 1200 or 1000 and do some sanding if you need to
>>88105964>>88105398>>88102257Ye sure anon, it's really not a crazy gradient if you break it down simple. Your black contrast is your work horse for blacking everything out and then you're just hitting your edges with a wide highlight of the fang, a thinner highlight of russ and then touch your corners with your brightest highlight. Left is current method whereas right is attacking all edges with brightest highligjlight and yoh can see it reads sort of strangely
Done with this one. Not 100% satisfied but got her done in one day at least
Trying to bulk this dude up and sculpt fur on him. Wish me luck cause I'm definitely gonna fuck it up.
>>88106163looks great>>88106169>>88106169bicep looks a bit inflated, like a turkey leg. its too round, try to add more muscle definition
>>88106121I mean, black contrast paint over a three color zenithal is a lot more complex than just blacking everything out. The effect is subtle but I like how it came out on the backpack, there's more depth to it than just the highlights but it's still clearly not grey.The funny thing is, right doesn't read strange to me since everybody and their dog is over-highlighting these days.
>>88106175Does this look alright, or is it still too lumpy?
>>88106233Ah shit don't know why it posted sideways like that
>>88106240Yeah I think that already looks a lot betterPictuure rotation is due to the exif data from when you took the picture, 4chan automatically removes it. Just load it in paint or something and save it again before posting it and it should be good.
>>88103425I find that intimidating yet intriguing.
>>88103415Only used Thrash Metal, but it is really nice. If they're other metallics work the same they may be one of the best metallic lines.
>>88102531I ordered bits from UK to convert the (then) metal hive tyrant into the flying variant. The monstrousity became so top heavy that it kept falling over, so I spent like three days sculpting some sort of hive base using large metal nuts, wire and tons of green stuff trying to balance it. Like a week after I'm done GW releases the plastic kit.
>>88106240Try mixing more blue into your mixes or alternatively try 50/50 milliput and your can smooth stuff with water like butter
>>88106542No.
>just bought a boatload of pinup minisits just to help me learn how to paint skin well, i swear.
>>88102000Just get Vallejo air aluminium or chrome, will last years and you just add colour for different metals, red/yellow for gold ectshits all over ever metallic
>>88104193Ok James. They work fine for 1000's of others but sure pal
>>88106169You’re on the right track, do it by adding little fur bits onto the mini from the bottom up
>>88106542You mean yellow?
>>88106463least you have a good paperweight
>>88106856>lawyer friendly Dragon's CrownBased.
last thing i was working on. was over a few weeks ago at this point. simply can’t stand that i never seem to finish anything and i never seem to be able to paint well. i’ve finished two models in my life and have been painting for a long time. getting to this point took days for me. i don’t know what i’m doing wrong.
How do I do this?
>>88106913Learn to draw first, then get a reference image and trace it.
>>88106332Thanks, it definitely helped me layer the hair more realistically.>>88106542I mixed a lot of yellow into this and it does feel like it's hardening too quickly. I might mix a second batch with more blue in it.>>88106884Should I be layering up in sections like I've been doing here, or would it look better to do it layer by layer across the entire mini?
>>88106999doubt it would matter in the end, very good work tho, get a scalpel and put a line in each of those fur noodles and it’ll look fantastic
>>88107025This guy does a good example of what you are doinghttps://youtu.be/Lun0RVOIBRk
>>88106913>Print image on laser printer>Apply clear packaging tape over image, press firmly>cut out>remove paper from tape, might need to soak it in water>let dry>apply like stencil>cover in grime
>>88107043Thought it might be something like that, maybe print the image on a transfer sheet, but not sure what that involves
>>88106913Use the stickers that came in the box.
>>88106899>simply can’t stand that i never seem to finish anything and i never seem to be able to paint well.you need to finish your pieces to learn sth. The post-mortem stage is where you can look back on your process and assess areas that need improvements.>i’ve finished two models in my life and have been painting for a long time. getting to this point took days for me. i don’t know what i’m doing wrong.you keep doing the same thing over and over without seeing it through. It's not an effective method to learn any skill.Imagine somebody was trying to build a table, but they never get further than cutting the wood, giving up before putting it together. By the end you'll not have learned much more than using a saw. You won't be able to build a table. You can say you've been woodworking for a long time, but you never actually built the table.You need to make an effort to improve to actually improve. My advice is to finish ANYTHING. Then make an inventory on where you think you succeeded or failed in what you set out to do. Get feedback from others as well and compare that against your goals. It's an iterative process, but you need to go through the cycle in it's entirety.
>>88106913Think there's a guy hanging around here on wip that does this? Printing motifes and cutting them to size.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQP4bLb_wf0There's the video he did on them
Painting this lad, only thing left to do is to weather all the metallics and paint the plasma coils.Any feedback?>always remember to wear your gasmasks or you'll end up like him
>>88107621Overall pretty good job, especially the flesh. If I had to say something, maybe some of the highlights on the boots are a bit thicc, and the pants a bit bland. But those are pretty minor things desu.
>>88107621>always remember to wear your gasmasks or you'll end up like himhalf of tiktok forgot their gasmasksAnyway it's been a while since I've seen this guy. Nice work.
>>88107641Thanks anon, his boots will get mostly covered by pigments so I was lazy there, I agree with the pants, I paint them drybrushing and the last coat was too heavy on the front, I'll see how I can fix it.Have a close up of his face, looks like a nice dude
Calling this guy done. He'll be much needed armored support for my pre-Big Hat Chaos Dwarves.
>>88107672The fuck is that supposed to be?
>>88107680A bull-forge-robot guy with a cannon. It's a great old sculpt from Ral Partha.
>>88107672Is that metal? It must weigh a ton. How do you even store it? I like the heat effects. The picture is fucking huge on PC, my God.
>>88107672Here's a (very wide) family photo of my WIP Chorfs. Still working on artillery, leadership, and some cav.
>>88105423If you're the guy who did it on the crossbow squad a while ago, then I have to thank you for the inspiration. After seeing it I had to do it myself.I just made a cast of the heads before I used them here so I don't have to spend $60 to salvage the heads from the kit every time. Anyone know a good and strong resin or other material to use for more fragile fiddly bits?
>>88106913Decal paper and whatever kind of printer it says it needs
What are the tricks to weathering? I've never done it before
>>88107672i don't know how can you live with those mould lines
>>88107993Eh, you'll never see them unless you're laying your head down flat on the table to look for them. I didn't even know they were there until I took the picture, as the posture of the figure is tilted down against that side of the weapon. I'm really excited to have him on the table, though. Me and some buddies are renting a mountain house this Spring to play all the shit we never have time to run. Between this big fella for OPR, a bunch of Gaslands cars, and a whole crate of terrain, I'm right chuffed.
>>88107989Small dollar store sponge brushes for chippingDirty Down RustVery watered down Agrax/Nuln done in layers
Started using oil washes and the turps is occasionally stripping the paint underneath (acrylic).What am I doing wrong? Also is there a less foul thinner than turps I can feel the brain damage
>>88108230are you varnishing first? ppl usally do before applying oil washesthere are odourless white spirits ppl use for that, like W&N sansodor
>>88108230Turpentine and acrylics don't react with each other, but you could probably destroy your acrylic layers when they're not cured because the entire process is pretty abrasive. Varnishing helps, too. You can find plenty of odorless thinners in your local crafts store, try those.
>>88108230Think you may be too aggressive with the turpentine, using too much.I'd personally use methyl spirits over turpentine.Think it's also called mineral spirits.It's pretty common in hardware stores.It's the kind they colour and blend "puke-chemicals" in, so that bench people can't buy cheap alcohol.
>>88108230gamsol is less harsh than turpentine but I wouldn't know how it interacts with acrylics
takes too much time to paint them all like this
>>88107511this means a lot. thank you.
>>88107864Yeah that was me lmao, did the shaman in the last thread too, have no interest or experience with casting so I'm probably gonna stick with plastics though. Have absolute piles of them from battleforces anyways
>>88108448the time invested is very visible though, looks great!
>>88107989There are so many tricks you can use in weathering that it'd be impossible to list them. Check out simple sponge chipping for the simplest sortve stuff to tackle as a beginner
>>88108448Doesn't really read as a glow, just sortve looks like blue panels
>>88108448Looks damn good though
>>88108448> too much timethats relative, do you need it finished to play soon or do you want to paint them because you like how they look, or do you like painting no matter what
>>88106856Me on the left
While I generally like Vallejo "Metal Color" line, I have issues with their "chrome" and "aluminium" shades - each time I try to use them, they don't form even surface but pool right away and I use them straight from bottle. Other, darker metallic shades have no such problem (like magnesium or iron).Could anyone give me a hint what I could do wrong?
>>88108287>>88108300thanks lads, not varnished them first - definitely the issue
>>88106856the skeleton requires milkies to become invincible
>>88107801Love it.
>>88108493>>88108570thanks lads>>88108518ya, the glow only really works on the weapon cable>>88108630i dont even know the rules of the gamethis is the previous attempt
>>88108656I find the lighter shades a little more finicky, you definitely want to be glazing them on as opposed to an all over drowning like you can get away with in the darker tones
>>88106899Sounds like you just care too much about how your models turn out. Just means your more of a painter than a gamer. Try painting some stuff that just doesn't matter at all. Throw together some objective markers out of some spare bits and just paint them with your favorite paints/recipes. Doesn't matter if they match your army, if you like your objective counter enough you can always repaint it to match later, or just keep them all random colours so they're extra obvious which counters are which. Little projects that don't matter turn into big projects when you get the inspiration, so do as many little projects as possible so you can have as many ideas for your important stuff when inspiration hits
>>88104136>>88106386That's what I think would be fun about it, only a few people will have anything actually good but it forces people to get creative
>>88108825>he thirsts for the calcium
How do I make the bad voice go away that points out all the flaws in my painting?
>>88109612keep painting, work on improving one flaw at a time, deliberate practice
So I'm doing black armour and I tried the stippling method and then highlighting to make it look a bit nicer. Now I have to darken it all, the video I'm watching uses an oil wash but I don't have access to one. What would achieve a similar effect? I was thinking about heavily thinned down black templar contrast, or nuln oil. Would this work?
>>88109612by appreciating what you do like about it, fix what is glaring and stop zooming in so goddamn much and looking at the flaws you can't see from an arm's length.
>>88109612You don't.Instead, you make it sound like Dagoth Ur.
>>88109830>I'm watching uses an oil wash but I don't have access to one. What would achieve a similar effect? I was thinking about heavily thinned down black templar contrast, or nuln oil. Would this work?depends on what properties of the oil wash you are after. If it's about the surface tension you can mix acrylics with alcohol or a bit of detergent/dish soap or just use a regular ink.If you want something you can move around and remove with a cotton swab that will not work with acrylics unless you've applied a coat of varnish and a special medium beforehand and it just chip the paint, not thin it or remove it.If you just want to stain the surface you can use contrast paints or washes, they'll just settle a little different.
>>88109612Some people have tried using a power drill to the temple, but the jury is out on that one. Would not recommend.
>>88109612Drink the paint water
I keep fucking up my masking. I have tamiya masking tape and some nail art stencils, made sure to burnish them on with a toothpick. I ran the brush at about 20 PSI, it was vallejo game air I thinned 1:1. Might I have overthinned?
Should I highlight brass with gould?
>>88110491it's good for edge highlighting. give it a shot.
>>88109612>>88109669>>88110177>>88110201>>88110362This, in what ever order works out best for you.
>>88110201
>>88110188I was leaning towards a wash for that reason. Basically what I want it to do is tie up all the colours together and also give it all an earthy tone that makes it all look more grimy and beaten up.
>Vallejo contrast equivalent still not widely availableFuck's sakes I'd swear Juan Hidalgo made these up to troll people or something at this point
>>88111041define widely available
Progress on dwarves, gonna try to fix mistakes, paint the metals and do some highlighting tomorrow. Really proud of the bearded dwarv head.I tried to make a lightning pattern on the knife watching sir Duncans video but I guess the surface was too small.Also I suck at glazing.And fuck vallejo Orange Fire, it covers like ass
>>88111250>vallejo Orange FireCan confirm, that paint is pure dogshit
>>88110460What's the pearl white you're using?Try pressing each strip down with a toothpick as you lay it down—especially in corners like the space between the raised center ridge and little bump on the front top of the left bike. Try to avoid laying a piece down all at once and then adjusting it.
This previous talk about focusing on flaws reminded me that while I started this project solely as "relax" aka "it's not for competition, whatever I do will be good, I just want to paint" I still can only focus on flaws like how I screwed up green-yellow (applying layer after layer for coverage until it grew thick) or how, while still making progress on highlighting, Im still far from optimal results. Somehow it looks better when I look at it IRL while on phone camera it's awful. No idea why.I really wish I could just have fun like many people here. Oh and sorry for it not being /tg/ stuff (but it's brush painted so I guess it's okay?)>>88111041>>88111048NTA but I talked with two shop owners recently and both confirmed that Vallejo was overwhelmed by Xpress paints popularity - they really didn't expect them to be that popular. But chances are that they will be readily restocked in Europe within month or two.
I never got faces right and failed most at eyes, any tipps for a beginner when it comes to eyes for wh40k minis?
>>88111471I checked 3 german stores:All paints available in two of them, and the 3rd had all paints available, but has 10-14 days of delivery time for the xpress medium and also for the "everything"-bundle. No idea about other countries, but here its a non-issue.
>>88111318vallejo seem to be meh in general except for metallics and black/white/pastel colours.
What metalic/solid should I use for the trim
>>88111550Bronze
>>88111335It's a wraithbone primer, then Turbo Dork's Pearly Gates, followed by Mother Lode. Turbo Dork are really great paints, but they need a lot of thinning. That basecoating is the only airbrushing I've done, and I can do it with my eyes shut as I've done so much experimenting for it . I know vallejo air is pre-thinned, so I'm not sure how much further I should thin them. I also forget what PSI is best for colours other than white, as you need a higher PSI for the whites and metallics (approx. 30PSI). I used a toothpick to get the tamiya tape down and pressed, I'm sure I just need to work on technique. I suppose the principle is the same if I'm handbrushing?
Spent some time today pushing some paint around on some booba. I really like that face. That came out well. I need to do a few more touch ups blending into those muscle definition lines, and I missed a spot in the underarm that needs to be pale. I'm also going to sand that calf down a third time and try to get it smooth. Pretty sure its just the paint behaving badly there. I need to thin it more. TANLINES! They're not as hard to do as I thought.
>>88111041I'm wondering if they're having logistic issues right now because my lgs hasn't had a shipment of vallejo products in 5 months.
>>88111770nice
>>88102169Looks good anon, if a bit heavy on areas that are questionable for wear and tear.. If you want to ad more realistic weathering effects to your worn down paint, the "stripes" should first be worn down to the colour below (the main colour of light grey/white), and then at sertain spots, all the way down to the bottom layer. This will give the effect that the makers of this machine, have first painted it in the primary colour, and then added a second layer of stripes above, as one would go about these types of coloours. To get it, I advice to do it in several layers, do the rocksalt/hairspray after a basecoat of your choise. Then ad the lighter grey colour, weather it down (and as said previously, less is sometimes more, and try to aim it at areas where it would be reasonable to get these damages and wear and tear, not just at compleatly random). Then seal it. Ad another layer of hairspray, lay down your masking tape, ad the stripes, and then repeat, to get a weathered effect of the stripes that has lost its colours to show the primary colours below, and at some parts even down to the base coat. keep us posted anon. will be cool to see the finished product.
>>88111770
Skin almost done on all the squigs, kinda hype when I can finnaly start on all the teefs
>>88110491Goold?
>>88106913Look, if you paint every day, you will get better at it. Combine this by watching how to paint and masterclass vids every day and dare to push yourself when you paint, and you will get even better. I know this isnt what you wanted to hear, but its the truth.
>>88107801Love it anon!
>>88108448Looks great anon and seriously, what's the rush? Think of it like this, it will take X amount of time now, and you can enjoy it for the rest of your life if you care for your miniatures. Now, how's those X hours spent feel in comparison to the rest of your life?
>>88111881looking snazzy. I have to start my manglers and colossals.
>>88109830You can get cheap oil paints in just about any arts or craft store together with oudorless thinner. Doing oil washes is no rocket sience, just mix up a small ammount of paint with some of that thinner, wash your model, let it set, and remove with a q-tip dipped in thinner, or a brush you dont care so much for.
About watching others painting - which YT channels are recommended for that? So far I only watched Duncan videos and while it helped me a lot, I still want more. Can't find much about Infinity, for example.Also checked Angel Girlandez but he use airbrush frequently, which I don't have.
>>88111471>I really wish I could just have fun like many people hereStop joking around. Painting aint all sunshine and rainbows, its a fucking drag from time to time, and the only way to say active in this hobby is to keep moving forward one brushstroke at a time! Jokes aside, it really is a drag from time to time. I personally have a mindset that focus on routines rather than feelings. If I say "I really don't feel like painting today", I also say "but that wont matter, because my daily routine is to do this, no matter my feelings about it". Some days its easier than others, but certainly not every day....
>>88112020Vince Venturella, hes like the nerdy uncle you wish you had. If you have a question about something mini painting related he probably has a video on it. There are also other painters that I watch like Marco Frisoni, Juan Hidalgo, and Trovarion. I also like Ebay miniature rescues for the conversions and low key vids.
>>88112263>the nerdy uncle you wish you hadSpeak for yourself, although he is undeniably a great painter his taste is atrocious
>>88112289This is still better than his other project>let's take stormcast>then add skaven headsJust WHY
does painting skin like this anon does basically require an airbrush? or are there any guides on how to get similar results with just a normie brush?
>>88112444Actually yeah you're right, that one is completely irredeemable. His "city of sigmar" army could at least make sense in 40k but the skavencast are the worst shit ever
>>88110362OF A SKILLED PAINTER!!!!it works!!! but the power fades over time... you must keep drinking it...it is said... if you attain a good level of painting skill drinking ones own paint water can keep the skill up... i am unsure tho...
>>88111471Cameras make everything harsher, especially how, compared to IRL, this photo fails to convey how small this piece is.Also you're your own harshest critic, it looks better than average and I only noticed the thick green yellow after you mentioned it.Have you looked for a workaround for the coverage problem? You're far from the first to have problems with yellow. You might feel better about it if you slay that particular dragon.
>dont play 40k>have never played 40k>dont own space marines>have never bought a space marine >have never painted a space marine of any flavor>out of nowhere thinking about buying a box and painting the chapters
>>88112855Good, cheap way of getting a variety of nice marines is the Space Marine adventures board game. currently real cheap on amazon. https://www.amazon.com/WAEHAMMER-40-000-Marine-Adventures/dp/B07J3PG964/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=space+marine+heroes&qid=1679265235&sr=8-1
>>88110177“Look at the clumsy edge highlighting here - was it done by an Argonian with a skooma problem? Is THIS how you honor the Sixth House and the Tribe Unmourned?”
>>88112958includes a salamander, space wolf, imperial fist, ultramarine, and blood angel. not bad for $18
>>88106856That's what I keep saying but no one believes me.
Got less done over the weekend than I'd hoped, but there is only three left to go now
>>88103425Ape-ril. Everyone does a primate.
>>88112464Doable without an airbrush but will require a lot of glazing like how this guy does it.https://youtu.be/1kyfVTucTn8
>>88112464You can probably get by doing blending for hours on end
Latest squad of skeletons complete. Had a lot of fun with the banner.
>>88112464Just make sure your primer is a smooth surface and thin your base coats. If you can't paint your skin in 2-3 thinned coats don't even try to get a result like that. The motre layers you have to do the worse it will look.
>>88112464> or are there any guides on how to get similar results with just a normie brush?I hope you like glazing. And I mean, REALLY like glazing.
>>88113418I'm thoroughly spooked, anon. I'm glad skeletons aren't real.
>>88113418I hate those batwing-ear helmets but cool banner anon
>>88111250That pic gives me "The Thing" vibes
>>88113466they have a certain charm, like the worlds depicted in Halloween stores
Did some sculpting to spruce up my Redemptor Dreadnought. I tried to pattern it after the religious Japanese rope thing called Shimenawa. I'm not sure if I'll add more, I like how this turned out so far. I think I'll try and clean up the metal, "joints," covering the rope ends. This was my third attempt sculpting the rope out of two bits of floral wire, I found that I needed to keep my motions repetitive, keep the wire each at a 45 degree angle, otherwise the pattern would get messed up.
>>88113580the rope looks great, clean. the tassels and other greenstuff could use some work.
>>88111504Exactly what you need to do depends on the face, eyes in helmets are much different than eyes on an open face. In short though, paint the face whatever colours you want it to be, highlight, wash all that. Then, when you actually want to paint the eye, come in with some thin white and apply it in the eye socket, don't sweat it if you go over the edges of the eye, you can clean it up later anyways. Then once you do like 2 thin layers of white of so to get the whites looking good, take your brush with the finest tip and get some pretty thin black on it. Carefully put a dot in the eye wherever you want the model to be looking, middle is easiest, but depending on pose to one side or the other might be preferable. Then do the other eye's pupil, being careful that the dot is in a pretty similar spot on both eyes so they don't look cross eyed. If you aren't happy with the placement the first time, just go over with white and try again. Once you are good with the pupil placement, come in and clean up any mess with an appropriate skin tone or armor color to match the rest, being careful to leave the eye as it is. Pretty hard, so just practice.
>>88102328Going good. Definitely sand the other one before you paint it, pretty sure you said you bought two.
>>88111504>eyesunironically don't do them until you get a handle on the basics and brush control, just recess shade with a fleshtone so the sockets are dark.When you do start doing eyes some sort of magnifying goggles are a solid investment
>>88102000here are some good paints I can personally recommendLeadbelcherstormhost silvercastelax bronzelook up vince venturellas gold recipe (its complicated but nothing tops it and most golds suck ass)Hashnut copper has shit coverage but I cant justify a replacement yet.Can anyone recomend a good brass?
>>88113580nice, im sitting down to some sculpting here myself
>>88113026fantastic
>>88111800Mine has run out of even the basics, like primers, but it's also a fairly popular spot with a good scene, so it could be just sold out.>>88111721Cool, thanks. Well I think the white looks brilliant and the blue will be great when the masking works out. I'd also try letting it sit for at least 20 minutes to dry, but that's not what's causing that runoff.
>>88112855>got some black templar primaris for christmas>dont play 40kModels look nice though admittedly, Im so use to potato molds with historics and old Lord of the Rings stuff Seriously, they should consider releasing some new models in that range, the molds are static poses yet they have so much blob detailing for the price they are.
>>88113343is there a video thats more of a tutorial and not just a speed run of him streaming himself painting?
>>88110460Try doing a thin layer of gloss varnish over top of your stencil after you apply it it'll help seal the edge tighter and you'll get less spill
some quick work on two destroyers from a boat game
>>88114519>Friend-class Destroyer
>>88113927nta but damn that's sick, what did you use for all those rivets?
My group play 8th edition with no stratagems or command points, and lots of terrain. I'm making an Ork patrol detachment but the store only had warboss in mega armor. I bought the ork combat patrol today, put the boss partially together, and then cannibalized arms from my unpainted Kommandos to create pic rel:Ork Warboss with PK, KombiRockit, and attack squig (from KT bomb squig).
>>88112855If you're averse to 40k for some reason you could buy other space marines like Scotia Grendel Urban War or Alternative Armies Ion Age
I still can’t believe James Workshop changed his nuln formula AND started selling it in a smaller bottle. I guess it ended up being the push I needed to comit to my own washes I gues.
>>88114765When I saw that I essentially knew that when I run out of nuln/agrax earthshade I'll need to move to another line of washes.I'm still torn between AP washes or the new Vallejo Game Color washes.
>>88114835I find Dark Tone to be quite similar to Nuln.
>>88113466Unbased and not LEGO-pilled.
>>88112855Same and I feel like getting some Space Marines to make a dumb joke.
I asked in PDF Share but anons here might be more likely to know. Does anyone have the Reaper Miniatures Learn to Paint books?For that matter, is it out of print or just logistical issues with the kit?
Should I be slathering my minis in shades or just focusing on the edges and recesses?
>>88114634styrene rod 0.5mm
>>88115010A multi sized leather punch on som plasticard sheets is a fast way to do it. Cutting rods for that many rivets would cause me to take hostages.
>>88102000I have to second the Vallejo Metal Color line. I HATED using leadbelcher or any other metallic from GW (exceptt retributor armor, that one's pretty good) and would dread putting on metallics for whatever i was working onThen someone recommended metal color. I shit you not, it was night and day. It's already thinned because it's made for airbrushing, but there's so much pigment it doesn't need more than a touch-up after the first coat in the worst circumstances. I use Exhaust Manifold as my gunmetal replacement, and Chrome instead of silver. Shit is cash.
Still working on my tank.
>>88114634gonna recommend not getting that punch unless you don't plan on doing anything with your busted hand. Go for some nail art half pearls instead. the work is already done and you just apply with a wax pencil. >capcha WO00P
>>88114972You can do either, just will need more cleanup if you apply all over a surface and then need to highlight it later. If you are happy with how the colour looks though, careful application of recess shading will save you some work.
>>88115331>busted hand??? I’ve been using a similar punch for all my rivets.
>>88113466I hate that they force a vampire aesthetic. Wish they at least had more variety to work for literally any other theme.
Work on my buildings and skirmish board
SOMEONE TEACH ME HOW TO FUCKING PAAAAAAINTAnd how would you guys go around making greenstuff sea shells and sunglasses
>>88115621I would just print the sea shells and glasses, then make a blue stuff mold out of them if they needed to be made of green stuff. I would probably just use the prints at that point tho.
guys I need a light for my desk that will provide even lighting. what kind do you use? Mine is too narrow and makes taking photos hard
>>88115792I use a cheese cloth that I hang around my lamp and I bend it way down as close as I can get it to the mini.
>>88115416You could just you know cut the ears off
Any suggestions on painting blood effects? Pic is what I'm painting
>>88114519>FletcherHope your opponents make the mistake of bringing a Yamato-class and expecting it to win the fight.
>>88116233Sorry I'm retarded and forgot to fix the image
>>88115792based bionicle enjoyer
>>88108230white spirit will be the softest on your paint. as said earlier varnishing has helped in my experiencealso consider your applicator - cotton swabs are much more abrasive than a brush.
>>88115621Looks better than my shit. Everyone in these threads might as well be wizards, as far as I'm concerned.
>>88116302That was where my eye went too.>>88115987Put me in the screenshot if anon's house burns down.
>>88114090https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBYW3T5bs_shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNUMLPIb6chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am7cZw2jKIQThere's these, I guess. In one of the videos, he did use an airbrush but for the most part you could see what you can do without one.
>>88112020Vince Venturella, Trovarion, Juan Hidalgo (if you like contrast paints), Richard Gray
What's a good colour to highlight gold? Silver?
>>88117376Yeah silver can work, or mixing some silver into your gold to make a lighter gold colour.
>>88115010>>88115141you can also get micro beads of halfbeads for nailart. Costs just 2 or 3 dollars or so to get a shitload.
where can I reliably get a sable brush that isn't going to show up in the mail or be frayed/crooked right out the packaging?I've gone through 3 sable brushes from winsor and newton and raphael from amazon, Blick, and jackson's art supplies respectively. they've all come in bad condition. I don't know where to get one anymore. I feel like an idiot about to be fooled for the 4th time but my only alternative is a cheap AP super detail brush.
>>88117414>where can I reliably get a sable brush that isn't going to show up in the mail or be frayed/crooked right out the packaging?you need to go to an art store an inspect them in person. That's the only way to make sure you get one with a nice tip.
>>88117414Go to your art store and get one there. I never buy brushes online for this reason.Sometimes they even cheaper in store too.
Working along with my blue Tau. Having a hard time getting back up to speed... But this is to be a stealthy ghostkeel suit. Not sure I really sold the cloaking field, but it will have to do. Perhaps I will put some lights in the feet's to really sell the effect, what do you guys think?
>>88101955>add glaze medium to a paint>apply to recesses of a cloak and leave to dry>go to bed>get up>go to work>come home>sit down to paint>it's still not dry
>>88117541For one, that blue is gorgeous. I think maybe you could add a little more middle ground between cloaked and uncloaked around the connection between hips and body, but I think it looks really good as is. >>88117559Jesus, high humidity or something? That seems like an absurd dry time.
>>88117559Which glaze medium did you use?
>>88115792Ikea's Hektar lamps are a godsend for lighting up large areas especially with a 800 Lumen daylight bulb.
>>88117604I wouldn't have thought so, I'm a britbong>>88117611Vallejo
>>88105229Those eyes look amazi
Is it normal for my brushes to look totally frayed when dry but when I wet them they hold their point perfectly fine?
>>88105423I really want to do it to at some point. It's so brilliant I wish GW had just made them like that originally.
>>88117681drybrushing is basically destroying your brushes. Don't do it with good ones. Use old ones or cheapo synthetics you can replace for a couple of cents.
>>88117414Your not a fool anon, you just don't understand how to deal with the a frayed brush.Just like with beard, you don't shave because you wake up with a bad-beard-day, now do you?You wet it, shape it, and straighten it under high heat and enjoy the rest of your day. So that is what you must do with these brushes. You repeat until you have straighten the hair on these brushes and shaped a perfect tip. On the bottom picture, I can see the black Raphael brush has paint on the metal rim at the base of the bristles, that is never a good sign. If you get paint dry at the base of the brush, you might never get a fine tip again, and it might be ruined. But other than that, do what I told you.
>>88117604Thanks anon. Yes I will ad black hexagons where the black parts meet in the middle as well, once I get to that color.
>>88117794I don't drybrush with the good ones, but I always remake the point after cleaning, but then when it dries the point is somewhat gone and then when I wet them again they have the same point as ever.
>>88117845Eh, obviously meant tip rather than point. Bilingual brain playing tricks on me.
>>88111881I was looking to make some boingrot bounders by recasting some goblins and squig herds separately. Are the squigs in the squig herd smaller than the squigs being ridden? Seems like it from the picture.
>>88115416They're supposed to be dragon wings, not bat ones. These guys have a saxon/early medieval culture, so that's probably a widespread heraldic device for them.
>>88117559I know your pain XD had some 50/50 mix on the palette , 5 days later it's still wet
>>88117414stop killing those expensive Sable brushes and use 1$ synthetics ,you clearly don't k kw how to use and maintain a brush...
>>88115327I am liking the grime, keep it up. What more are you planning to do to it?
>>88115589I always like packaging material scifi buildings. Every time I collect a bunch of empty containers and cool shaped packaging inserts though I realise I'm too stupid to come up with cool ways to greeble and paint them though.
>>88118609Sable are a meme anyway, synthetics are safer to clean with alcohol to flush out the cakes acrylic paint near the ferrule without damaging the brush.
What's a good dark dark cold metal or steel color I can get?
>>88118821gunmetal + black + blue?
>>88118740Dollar stores are a great source of greeble bits, especially the Final Faction line of action figures. Stick a few guns or scifi looking pieces on. Paint the entire building grey with a drybrush. Put a few bright red or blue markings and stripes. Dunzo
>>88118821>>88119042Anyway if that is what you mean you can look into vallejo gunmetal blue or scale 75 cobalt metal. Both blue metallic paints.
>>88118696Thanks anon, I gotta get the dude painted, I need to pick out a few details, get some highlights on the MG, soot up the exaust. I'm not sure what else it needs, I'm open to suggestions. That's probably about it though. I'm very happy, it's a neat little amphibious tank.
Dark eldar are not fun to paint.
>>88119042Personally i use any silver I can get my hands on and simply add a tiny bit of black and a whole ton of blue. for a recent project I mixed a whole bucket and had to split the moxx several times because the black overpowered the blue so hard I needed like ten times more blue for it to even show up as a slight hue
>>88119511inks are probably really good for tinting metallics.
>>88117671Thanks, it's really simple to do, I used some metal color chrome then put some magic blue speed paint over it.
>>88113855thank you anon. I already have magnifying googles with light and the drive to try some eyes.>>88113796Thank you too anon.I will try this and post the results some time this week
>>88118609they literally came like that right out the packaging and I returned them immediately. >>88117429>>88117440>>88117814ty
Painting some glossy future pecs
>>88121357really nice
>>88112996nothing on their sculpts forces a chapter, they are colored plastic and have card art though
How would someone achieve this kind of oil slick shimmer on the underwings on this model? Is it by using an airbrush, or is there a paint that refracts light like this?
>>88122411Not 100% sure if this is it, but Folk Art Dragonfly Glaze or Army Painter Fairy Dust might do the trick.
>>88122494Oh yeah these both look like it. Thanks anon!
>>88122411>>88122494Also Mod Podge iridescent gloss sealer.
>>88112958>>88112996>>88122367>nothing on their sculpts forces a chapter, they are colored plastic and have card art thoughThat's correct; these are just the Series One Space Marine Heroes. Brother-Sergeant Cassius/Sevastus isn't even molded in a different colour! The caveat here is that four of these models (the ones that are *not* blue) were never available in the blind boxes in the United States:-- Sergeant Cassius of the Ultramarines (blue), armed with a grav-pistol and chainsword. This model was also available in America, where he was known as "Brother-Sergeant Sevastus".-- Brother Infernus of the Salamanders (green), armed with a flamethrower. In Japan, this model was named "Brother Calistus".-- Brother Grimm of the Imperial Fists (yellow), armed with a heavy bolter. In Japan, this model was named "Brother Toriad".-- Brother Frostclaw of the Space Wolves (grey), armed with a bot gun and combat knife. In Japan, this model was named Brother Aethor".-- Brother Gabriel of the Blood Angels (red), armed with a bolt gun and auspex. In Japan, this model was named "Brother Dolor".Ready for another surprise? The Blood Angels Heroes are also the same models as some of the heroes from Series One, just molded in red plastic!
>>88122649The other cool thing is that if you were never lucky enough to get Brother-Captain Thassarius - the rarest of the bunch here in the States, appearing in only 1:36 blind boxes - all you had to do was buy the Recon Mission expansion for the game. He's molded in light grey plastic to represent the White Scars chapter, but it's the same model.
Stupid question incomingGetting into painting minis and a friend gave me a shit ton of old, unopened paints. Most of them are from 2012 and they're all citadel. How long do paints last? I mean I opened one or two up and they still look wet so I assume they're OK if I shake them for a few minutes.
>>88101955so just getting started in 40k. Decided I would role T'au and try some kill team as it's played most in my area. Building is easy for me, Painting is a bitch. Figured I would try to get the hang of it with the measuring tools first what do y'all think.
>>88122809not bad for a start.the silver on the knife could use some thinning and maybe 2-3 thin coats to prevent visible brush strokes and the brass on the edges would really benefit from some light drybrushing to highlight them.
>>88122749decades if they are air tight. I got an og pot of goblin green from 97' that is still good. for most older citadel paints you want to thin them with a few drops of water or acrylic thinner as they are very thick out of the pot.
>>88122870thanks for the advice
>>88122895I'm making a wet palette so that should be able to thin the paints if I understand how they work correctly.They're all unopened save for one or two I opened so I assume they're airtight. Thanks anon.
>>88122749just shake the fuck out of them and they should still be good, if they're chalky and thick you can thin them out with water or more preferable acrylic medium. Buy some steel ball bearings and pop one or two in a pot for easier mixing.
>>88122928Didn't think of using balls to mix the paint with shaking, that sounds like a good idea. Thanks anon.
What is your favorite brushes manufacturer? I started using contrast paints and fucked up mine somehow.
>>88122919Protip: once you filled the wet palette dab the surface of the paper with a paper towel to absorb excess moisture or your paints will run all over the place ,it's the most common mistake ppl including me make when first using them.
>>88122978Rosemary & co. The selection is great, quality is good and the price is unbeatable.
>>88122978For contrasts I've found that anything with a long brush length is fine. You don't need too much but they do kind of ruin your brushes for other paints.
>>88122978unironically the 7-9$ synthetic 10 brush sets from chinkland you can get on Amazon. they don't last very long but I can get like 5 packs for a single set of 3 good Sable brushes ...
>>88122978i've got some army painter regiment/monster brushes that I like for basecoating. i've had them forever, came with paint boxes i kept receiving as gifts. for contrast paints/washes, whatever is cheap on amazon or wal mart. for detail, i've got an army painter kolinksy, as well as some wn series 7 size 1 and 0. i have a few davinci lying around, havent used them yet. i let myself get memed into getting the artis opus drybrush set with the box. I've only used one. I prefer the cheapo ones I got at Target or Ulta.for your fucked up ones, try some the masters brush cleaner. good to have on hand anyway.
>>88122978Im gonna sound like a shill, but rosemary and co. They do stuff for "real" artitsts but they arent the most expensive ones out there with real nice quality.But they have a minature bundle which is also good value.And they showed me squirrel Hair Brushes which im a really a huge fan by now.
>>88105210>>88105221Nice, there's so many things I wanna do with boingrot heads.>>88105280I'm weirdly conflicted about regular power armour wearing SM convertions. I love seeing them, but I'm personally so done with them and can't see a reason for me to make more because I already have waaaaay too many basic marines.
>>88123183>>88123049>>88123039>>88123037>>88123032Thanks anons, that helps a lot.
>>88122978Contrast, inks, and washes are brush destroyers. They flow up into the ferrule and dry there, splaying out the bristles. Just get cheap synthetics for those. For sable brushes W&N, Raphael, Da Vinci, and Rosemary & Co are all good. Dick Blick's house brand sables are cheap and also nice when you get a good one, but the QC is lacking compared to the name brands. Only buy them in store, and ask the staff if you can test the brushes out by moistening them with a bit of water to see if they can get a sharp tip first.
>>88123039They are quite soft tho.. I find their tip too bendy.
>>88122978I'm not kind to my brushes at all and have a really heavy hand (due to nerve damage, I can't tell I am being to hard on something, or burning myself), so I don't like the idea of using the fancy $120 a piece hobby brushes.I use these really cheap Fine Touch brown taklon water color brushes from hobby lobby. They actually do pretty good, and a $8 for 10, I can ruin them with little care.
>>88122952they work great for shitty citadel pots, but i'd rather recommend buying dropper bottles and a funnel off of amazon and moving the paint from the citadel pots to that. Whatever is cheaper
>>88123625Also not sure about using them in pic related as they might clog the nozzle
I got this Ghostface mini im painting for a diorama, and I was wondering if anyone had tips for the white mask and the real costume's glitter-robe effect. I was considering stippling on the tiniest white dots you could imagine, but maybe that's not the best idea.
>>88123625what kind of funnel? They make ones specifically for this?
Who makes the best white? Need a good white for my Black Templar shoulders pads.
>>88123813Army painter or citadel works well for Warhammer minis.
>>88123709if you want actual glitter you could try glazing thinned down metallic paint over the robe. That will leave some of the mica flakes on there and depending from which angle you look at it, it will sparkle.If you want to do that via traditional painting i'd experiment until I have a good consistency in my paint for doing splatters. Like flicking a stiff bristled brush over a toothpick or plasting it with air from an airbrush or draggin a toothbrush across a sieve. You know how you'd paint a field of stars as a kid. That works with acrylics as well. Might just have to mask some parts of the mini off. But it will probably give you finer spots and a more even texture than trying to paint it by hand.
>>88123813I heard good things about the reaper white. Haven't tried it myself yet. The lady who designed the paint range said the white was the first thing she did, because she really wanted to nail that.
>>88123813Seconding Reaper. Reaper's Pure White is my favorite white I've used. If you are willing to not use a specifically model paint, you can also just pick up a tube of artist quality white at a craft store or something too.
Goddamn. I think I'm doing on ok job on a mini, then I try to take a pic and see it through my phone, and it looks horrendous. I even use a magnifying glass.>>88123813GW and Army Painter whites are a little chalky imo, but should be fine for your shoulder pads. I think Vallejo is cheaper, better quality, and more easily available, at least where I am in the southeastern USA. I personally like using gw screaming skull on my templar for a warmer tone.
>>88123986Yeah cameras almost always expose little problems you can barely see with the naked eye. Camera adds 10lbs and all that after all, I wouldn't sweat it too much.
>>88123781they're usually included
>>88123813Buy liquitex soft body acrylic titatnium white, you get a big pot of white for like 10$ and it's leagues better than any hobby paint.Or if you want the best acrylic white out there, Golden high flow titanium white, best acrylic out there, but you get half of what you get from liquitex.
>>88123625>>88123781>>88124005maybe this helpshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woDV2bTc6U
>$50 for three funnelshttps://dropdrippers.com/surely there must be an stl for this?
>>88123858thanks for the tips. I might try out the metallic glaze. I'll see if my store has any metallic medium. Do you have any suggestions for the mask? I was thinking of basing the whole thing white, then apothecary white over the mask + white scar or some other bright white to go over the raised edges.
>>88124122you could just cut some pvc pipes with the right diameter.
>>88124134>I was thinking of basing the whole thing white, then apothecary white over the mask + white scar or some other bright white to go over the raised edges.sounds like a plan. You might want to do a base layer of grey before you go to the first layer of white though. In my experience you have to do three or four layers of white over black (assuming you prime black because of the robes) before you are even getting close to even coverage. That is kind of a pain in the rear and white likes to get chalky, so look out for that.
>>88119042I use boltgun with a drop of black ink
Well, thats it for today. Need to tidy up some lines but its starting to come together.
>>88124433Left the back more opened, so when you see the model up front, the hexagons will show more clearly from the front side
>>88123986>>88124001I'm really new at this, so I don't expect my minis to look like the ones on here, but yeah... I haven't been brave enough to post anything yet.
>>88123813Pro Acryl has a pretty good white.
Should I be saturating my brush with shades or is less more for them?
I've seen the "Contrast over different bases" and "Contrast over metals" thing but i have an odder requestDoes there exist a reference of contrast over different colored bases? Like bright blue over magenta/pink basing? Would that result in a bright blue highlight with dark purple shadows as it glazes the pink, or an unreadable mess? I'm interested in playing around with different color theories and seeing the results, but trying to see if this has already been done.
>>88123813If you have the cash get a good titanium white single pigment white from an art brand like liquitex or golden so flat, and you'll be set for mixing whites for years
>>88123813I like the pro acryl but really ymmv with any white.
A bad photo of the first of my Shanghai Municipal Police, the vast majority of whom were Skih.
>>88124448is he going to be mid cloak? if so looks really cool
>>88124433>>88124448Looking good! I think the little extra transition to the cloak really helps. The base is really nice too.>>88124612I mean you don't have anything to lose by posting, but up to you at the end of the day.
>>88125752>you don't have anything to lose by postingI have a Faberge ego. Negative comments could destroy all my motivation.
>>88125682Hello good morning!Looks pretty good, anon. Nice work!
>>88125838afaik people here wont berate you for you shitty painting skills as long as it's clear you're trying
>>88125472don't think it's been researched yet, go for it anon. I bet if you made a video you'd get views. It's an interesting concept since contrast paints are still "new"ish enough that i doubt anyones sat down and compared all the contrasts between them and base coats.
>>88126210I only really see flak when people repeatedly ignore feedback and refuse to listen+learn. >>88125838Post your shit, faggot.
>>88125483Cash? white is like the cheapest one and prob similar to GW prices ml for ml
>>88111924Wrong
>>88109830>>88110850nuln oil works, just won't be as striking as an oil wash
>>88111471as somebody who's done gunpla by hand before, if you can, try using sponges to apply it if you're afraid of brush marks, and use a couple coatsi've actually had pretty good results by using a couple coats of sponged on contrast paint, using a sponge hides the pooling effect and keeps it flat
>>88125989Thank you anon, please come again. I have 3 more to do, only have 4 Skih total. I wasn't sure how the skin tone would look, but I'm happy with it.
Post your goblin rogues, I know at least three more of you have one, you posted them here unpainted when the month started.I need ideas to copy for mine.
>>88125682wow i just looked up the history of these, interesting, so the british brought them in to police the city and create underling strife so the locals couldnt unite and kick them out? i think the hittites did this too
Done with this one
