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>>98896410 >>98896433

>WIP Secret Santa 2026
>Encoded sign-up form. Sign-ups close Friday, November 6th.
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>Questions, problems, comments, suggestions
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what age were you when you first started painting

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>>98896658 >>98900827 >>98904128

>>98895847
Around 13 or 14 back in 1997 when one of my classmates brought on of those brochures to school, with advertisments of 5th edition of WH Fantasy, 40k and Epic 40. We stayed in the hobby for a couple years, then quit for almost two decades and came back to it during the first covid lockdown.

Also reposting my newest result.

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>>98895847
About 7 when one of my friends brought in a load of the old little fold outs that used to come in every box
I still have lots of them around somewhere

>>98895847
25.
I was too poor for Warhammer until I had a real job after college

>>98895164
you are ignoring the difference between 2d and 3d, either because you are stupid and never stopped to think about it, or because you are a rat and doing it intentionally to support your argument. if you are trying to paint a gold sphere on canvas you will never be able to make it look like a sphere with gold paint. even if you forget about paint entirely and use real gold leaf it will never look round because in the end it's just a flat circle. this is the limitation of metallic coatings ON CANVAS. when you get to 3d objects the situation is entirely reversed. you will never be able to paint a ball using yellows and browns that looks as much like gold as real electroplated gold, let alone good gold paint. at best nmm will always look stylized, which is fine if stylized is your goal, but if you are just looking for results it's doing more work for less payout in the eyes of everyone but 2d elitists.

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>>98896658 >>98897868 >>98898883

>>98895847
11-12 years old. saw DoW 2 and instantly got hooked up, painting got much better once i hit the 25's

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I went with the fleshy look in the end.
I'll probably try to lighten it with some drybrushing, and look for more places where I fucked-up (I only noticed the thumb nail after taking the pic, and fixed it)

>>98895847
12

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>>98898232

>"I hate painting eyes", said anon, every time he have to paint a pair.

>>98895847
Its three phases for me:
In elementary school, i painted 1:72 italeri and revell soldiers and tanks with disgusting enamel paints, because i had a neighbor who was like 5-6 years older, and he was into scale models. I have no clue why my parents accepted those smelly paints on their kitchen table

Around 17, i got introduced to 40k (3rd edition), and i painted a chaos marine army and played casually for maybe 2-3 years

And lastly, around mid 30, i got back into it during covid and from buying a single start collecting chaos marines set (for nostalgias sake) and a couple of paints, it evolved into buying 4 3d printers over the years.

>>98895788
Secret Santa-chan, should I expect a follow up email besides the form submittal one, or just one when matches are made?

>>98896380
what's wrong with enamel paints? I used testors model master to paint my airplanes as a kid.

>>98895847
I started maybe about 6 years ago, and really only got serious 3 or so

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>>98896410
>Secret Santa-chan, should I expect a follow up email besides the form submittal one, or just one when matches are made?
The form will send you one automatically now, and when I make the matches here in a couple of weeks, I'll send you one explaining who your match is.

If you need to ask me a question, the second encoded link in >>98895788 is the address for questions and correspondence.

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>>98896447 >>98896477

The Trainwreck continues. I really ought to have googled more before starting the project.

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>>98896434

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>>98895847
>what age were you when you first started painting
Must've been before I was 12, since I knew where I was when I started painting, and I knew when I moved here. Like >>98896380, I painted plastic scale military models with Testors enamel paints first. In fact, the original reason I chose Blood Angels about 35 or so years ago was solely because I had several bottles of Testors Flat Red enamel on hand. We didn't even get our own roolz until 1996.

I still have a bunch of Mk VI beekees painted with Testors Flat Red.

So, let's get this straight - would metallic paints actually damage natural hair brush or it's just a meme?

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>>98896511 >>98896522

>>98896434
nah, this iteration is by far the best one. Three things come to mind:
1) why extra armor everywhere but where the crew compartment is?
2) combine textures - for example, use the "ERA" bricks on top of the skirts, but leave the lower part just flat regular plasticard
3) You could also add some angles to the plates - for example like in picrel. It's not necessarily realistic, but they can help with the effect a lot.

And I still think you should drop the recoilless rifles and replace them with some scifi weaponry. They are way too iconic, and, to be honest, were always just funky looking, even irl. I can imagine some heavy 40k plasma or something similar could actually finally sling it over to the "actual kitbash" territory. The lil turret in the center deserves some optics, too.

>>98896464
short, yes. long, no
natural hair holds onto paint better, and small specs of metals even better. if you don't properly clean them, it goes up and ruins the brush. You really have to wash them thoroughly with soap after each use and ensure no paint travels up into the ferrule. if you can't commit to being that anal about maintenance, just go with synthetic.

>>98896477
You're just throwing poop at the wall at this point.
Put the tonk away and come back to it in a year or more when you've learned more.

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>>98896477

Thank you. I've learned a lot from this project. I can add more plates and make some angled cuts (pretty sure I've now seen ERA bricks which had a triangular shape). As for the sci-fi weapons, I had an idea for the barrel: twisting two wires together in a pattern like pic related, but obviously a lot tighter. It can be done easily with a drill and it could give an impression of some sort of energy weapons.

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>>98897437 >>98898883

Here are some Swiss Guards, kit bashed from the Townsguard from ArchonStudio.

>>98895847
I started at 10 with WHFB.

>>98895884
>>98896242
Very nice banners!

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One of worse paints I made recently but I don't think I can actually do it better.

>>98896380
>enamel paints
Same. The local hobby store owner, who was a sweet guy, unfortunately did not know the right way to paint a model. He had me painting Orc Warriors with testors gloss enamels, unthinned, straight out of the pot. It looked like shit and my mother also always made me paint outside because she thought the fumes would give me cancer. So my first foray into mini painting was messy, unsatisfying, no fun at all. Glad I stuck with it until some years later I found the Internet and learned about acrylics and thinning.

>>98895847
Around 30. An old friend gifted me a box of 40k miniatures so I decided I'd give it a try. I'm almost 40 now and painting minis is one of the things that keeps me sane.

>>98896433
Thanks dude

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>>98897051

Finished the stitching on the flesh book. It's not great but I don't think I did too bad for my first real sculpting attempt. Maybe I'll scrape it off and try again.
Also tried my hand at getting the flowers smaller. I managed about the right size and with a bit more practice I think I'll be able to make some decent roses at the right scale. What's a good tool lube I could use since using water is kind of a pain in the ass?

>>98897036
vaseline or cooking oil

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>>98904903

>>98895847
25 when during paternity leave

>>98897051
Seconded for the former, haven't tried the latter.

>>98895847
13 in 2017 for first abortive attempts, 17 in 2021 for the current streak

>>98896658
These are great. I actually had the exact same idea with them.

have there ever been model train or dollhouse generals on 4chan?

>>98897471
there was some talk about model railroading maybe a month ago here
anon posted this one great british model autist who had his own tv show i think in the 80´s
little embarassed because i dont remember his name and i think i watched every episode

>>98897325
>13 in 2017

shit you were born after i first started getting models

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>>98897555
>anon posted this one great british model autist who had his own tv show i think in the 80´s
That sounds like Bob Symes. He died about ten years ago, I think. Apart from trains, he lead pretty interesting life.

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>>98897647
yeah thats him
seemed like a cool dude rip

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>>98897847 >>98897862 >>98897896 >>98897951 >>98898003 >>98898883

About done with the speeder. Now glue it all together, and onto the crew and the base. The base will be fun; I've never poured resin or tried making moving water. I hope I won't fuck it up too hard.

>>98897818
smooth paintjob and you did a good job putting it together gz
> I've never poured resin or tried making moving water
luckily it will be put on a flying stand base so you can practise as many times as you need

i also like the pink fluffy dice

>>98897818
Cool stuff and great attention to details as always, raptorbro. Including the fuzzy dice.

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>>98898883

Surely I'll get to the wraps/belts next time

>>98895847
2017, so 29? I had seen plenty of Warhammer in college but one, didn't have a local store, two, too broke

After playing blood bowl 2 though I saw the blood bowl starter at my local game store at the time. Didn't have anyone to play with at the time so I just painted

>>98896242
Beauty of a banner. Need to find me something to freehand

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>>98897847
>i also like the pink fluffy dice
Thank you anon, I think it's the centerpiece of the entire model.
>luckily it will be put on a flying stand base so you can practise as many times as you need
That's my aim. I would like to do a larger Catachan river hovercraft diorama sometime next year (inspired by picrel), so this is a bit of training for it.

>>98897862
Thank you, anon!

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>>98898126

>>98897818
Nice shading on the armor panels.

>>98897818
Do you have a background in scale modelling, raptorbro?

>>98897471
Theoretically I guess those would go on /toy/. I know they already host a Scale Model General thread for those detailed tank, plane, etc models that aren't part of a tabletop game system. I am surprised we don't have more train threads though, it's autistic enough to seem a natural fit here.

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>>98897818

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>>98898806 >>98900009

finished these today
went little too hard on that dust but luckily you can just wipe it off with a moist finger

>>98897896
Thanks, anon!

>>98897951
A little bit. I'm currently building South African Rooikat in 1/35, when it gets a bit presentable, I'll post it itt.

>>98898003
Even used the Dark Gull Gray, the same that was used in Vietnam-era Huey interiors.

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>>98898806

I haven't painted anything for Halloween yet, so I started some Flintloque zombies. Captain Preserovich arrived missing an arm and it's not anywhere in the box. Still, it feels sort of appropriate as he is a zombie. Thankfully everything else in the box seems normal.

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>>98898806 >>98898883

Test painting my first ork boy from the Armageddon box. First time I think I've pulled off slap-chop contrasts successfully. Not sure if I'm happy with the yellow shirt. I might swap it out for tan or brown.

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>>98898277 >>98899510

>>98895847
I was 12 or maybe 13 when I first got Assault on Black Reach I think.

Attached is a pic of my first terminator sergeant from middle school, then the next one I painted in highschool, and the one I painted just a few months ago

>>98895847
8 years old, when I first got Heroquest and my dad gave me his old modelling oil paints and a big jar of acetone.

>>98896371
Black dot, white dot, black dot. Smaller every step.

Try a more red/pink shading on her skin instead of the brown.

i bought a new paint and it doesn't look as id hoped on the mini. i am morose

>>98898195
did you lose your dominant hand after high school? that's a hell of a downfall

>>98898227
sounds like a really kickass dad

>>98898333
Yeah, he died 3 years later in his early 40's. I'll be his age soon.. I need a son.

>>98898373
i know the feeling and sorry for your loss anon mine has passed away too
there are many anons who paint with their kids and in time will teach them to play too
it does sound like fun

>>98898277
Lost it in the war

>>98898503
thank you for your service

>>98898110
>>98898155
>>98898174
fun stuff boys

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>>98898892 >>98899660 >>98899846

Haven't posted any ork stuff recently. Here's a freebooterz grot ship I finished earlier this month. The Captain's hair kinda looks like purple spaghetti but whatever, I'm happy with the rest

>>98895847
Around the age of ten. Didn't really stick with it for long, just a couple of months. Got back into it around 2018.

>>98896242
That's a sick ass banner anon

>>98896658
Polearms are the best. Nice paintjob btw

>>98897818
Looking sharp as usual. That pink dice is a lovely touch. Have you seen the toilet paper & PVA glue method of making water btw? Might be useful for you if you wanna make water features for smaller units without stressing with resin pours

>>98897868
Looking very nice!

>>98898174
Not bad anon! I think a brown shirt would look better and it'd be easy to slap some brown contrast over the yellow

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>>98900176

>>98898883
Example of water made with toilet paper & PVA glue. Ain't as impressive as resin water of course, but it's way easier and stress free

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>>98899334 >>98899572 >>98899660

>>98894281
Not that Anon but it does have a point..

the rest of the fart smelling nmm - influencer jewtuber - it, kept complaining and shitting on GW for prefering stuff that looked like their IP and eavy metal, Yikes... imagine that?

So they took what made it special, the EM cup and turned it into circle jerk for the same group of individuals that like to paint a certian way but that dont like the GW style. GW has its own team of professional painters, so why the fuck are they getting guest judge?

This faggot is everything that is wrong with GD, back in my day the SS used to be fucking mind blowing. I still remember how people seethed at the Skink winning the slayer sword because it was too much like GW's stuff.

>>98899032
>I still remember
Wasn't that like 2years ago?

>>98898195
weird skill progression

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>>98899555 >>98899557 >>98899560 >>98899565 >>98899600

How mad will my gf be if I spend more money and effort on the secret santa than on her?

>>98899547
Who cares? Girlfriends are temporary, the homies and Christmas joy is eternal

>>98899547
How mad will your ex-gf be, you mean.

>>98899547
She doesn't have to know.

>>98899547
Your gf monitors your finances? Lmfao holy cuck

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>>98900017 >>98901363

>>98899032
seethe more.
and they did put a TMM in silver

>>98899547

She doesn't have to know? Most likely she wouldn't understand anyway.

This year is the first time I'm participating in secret Santa, how much have people typically spent on their gifts?

>>98899600
Average equivalent of 100€ I guess, that's at least what I assumed from checking photos from previous two years.

>>98899608

Right. That's more than I budgeted for my son's Christmas present... But thankfully he doesn't really know much about the value of money yet.

>>98899560
>>98899565
>>98899600
Well, we live together. I highly doubt I'll be able to receive a mysterious package from a dude called Bratislav from Siberia or something and not give an explanation lmao.
But it's not that serious bros.

>>98899600
>how much have people typically spent on their gifts?
I spend 0 dollars with my patented, innovative technique.
>Buy a ton of shit throughout the year, I'm talking several dozens of kits
>Massive pile of shame builds up
>Gift my secret santa bro stuff from my pile of shame

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>>98899673 >>98900047 >>98901192 >>98901904

>>98898883
That ship is fucking great. Love the paint job. I hope I can match that level with my ork stuff.

>>98899032
I think it's just a matter of taste really. NMM and all that takes immense level of skill, but I personally prefer actual metallics. Most of the winners and style of the really skilled painters end up with the whole mini looking like velvet or silk. It doesn't looks like what it's actually supposed to look like.
Back in the day I remember the European Golden Demon winners were mostly a very realistic and gritty style compared to the American one where there was a lot of NMM and tons of very bright colours.
Everything has been very homogenised and the velvet style is just everywhere now.


I finished the last three, boring but important for gameplay, barbed wire pieces. I think the dead tree branches stand out too much on the base. It's the first time I used the gamergrass stuff I bought, but I think I need to do some subtle green glazing to the branches to integrate it more with the jungle floor.

>>98899651

But doctor, I have no pile of shame!

>>98899644
>A package! So you are cheating on me, huh?! How is this bitch named... Bratislav?! Now you are cheating on me WITH A GUY?!

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>>98901192 >>98901904

>>98899660
Everything is starting to come together pretty good. I think it all looks great grouped up together.
And an actual wip shot of some minis. I'm going to paint the Deathwatch blade dude as a Blood Angel with an old helmet and very old bolter I had in an old bits box.
I noticed some fucking terrible mold lines I overlooked while building them I need to clean up. The mold lines on all these kits were fucking dreadful. The whole building they have now for their minis is so fucking terrible it turned me off from buying more shit after I get the Armageddon Kill Team box. Then I'm set for a long time before I'll put myself through that fucking misery again.

>>98899661
That's a you issue

>>98898883
>Have you seen the toilet paper & PVA glue method of making water btw
Yeah. I remember seeing a local train dude having absolutely insane coastline made with toilet paper method. But train autists are built differently, so I'm not sure I'm up to it.

Love your grots, ship's great!

>>98898110
Those are 15mm?
Looking great, and i dont think the dust is overdone there.
If anything, tone down the rust effect on the tracks for your next tanks.
Its highly unlikely for rust to build up in random spots on the tracks of operational tanks, while the majority of the track is rather clean. But at that scale, it does not matter too much i guess.

>>98899572
The black rim on the cut off ork hand looks very distracting. It's just a black blob right in the middle of the piece.

>>98899660

Agree with you on the "velvet" style. Very apt description of it. There were some entries last year that had a really sweet "oil painting" vibe that I really enjoyed. Gritty styles can take a lot of skill as well. I really never liked the velvet style while still recognizing the skill needed for it.

About GS/Miliput use - is vaseline really enough to prevent it from sticking to parts? I wanted to make few parts that would fit existing ones but still separate, would covering said plastic parts in vaseline allow Miliput to adhere but not stick to them? It would need to stay in this form for a while to harden while keeping the shape.

>>98898892
Damn, the steel parts like the face and joints are so well done on that guy, did you paint it?

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>>98900364 >>98900389 >>98900391 >>98901904

Finished tank man. Yes, I know the dust should be on the entirety of the tracks, I just thought it'd look cooler with some bare metal visible at the top.
>>98895847
Painted a bit as a teenager and when studying at university but I didn't really get into the hobby properly until I was in my 30s.

>>98900318
Brilliant work anon. I think it's fine you didn't dust the top of the tracks, it adds a little more colour variation instead of being red all over.
Maybe he was just dropped onto the battlefield and is only just about to start rolling.

>>98900318
You have centered the tank treads, but not the model. Had you placed the treads as far back on the base as possible the overhang issue would be mitigated.
It is well painted, nothing is done incorrectly, not even the paint scheme, it looks like something you'd expect to see on the GW catalogue. This makes my criticism quite clear, where is evidence of you being involved on this mini? It has no piece of your soul, only your time and money.

>>98900318
Add some dust to the top of the tank threads as well. They do go around you know.

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>>98900449

>>98900389
>It has no piece of your soul, only your time and money.

>>98900441
Yeah, yeah. Go cry about in the beer hall, failed art student.

>>98900449
You're the failed art student, anon. Only worse, because you became a critic not even in a magazine, but on a mongolian basket weaving forum

>>98900389
>there's nothing I can criticize in the paintjob so I will try to damage you emotionally instead
what the fuck is wrong with women

>>98900389
Not only are you a pretentious faggot but you're also wrong about the overhang or this looking like something eavy metal would paint lmao

>>98895884
Really nice anon. Are those beastmen runes?

Does anyone have recommendations for beginner friendly sculpting putty? Ive tried greenstuff before and i was really shit at using it. I just want to make some cloth wraps to go around a weapon and i need to try and make a part of an orc deltoid that i can't cover up with something else.

>>98899660
>>98899673
Where did you obtain the jungle trees you're using for the terrain?

>>98900079
idk if it works for miliput but floor wax works as release agent for 2 part epoxy.

>>98900461
>>98900567
>>98900569
Uh-oh I forgot this is a reddit-leftoid safe space and negative criticisms are verboten.
My apologies, everyone's paintjobs are heckin' awesome in their own unique snowflake way.
...Yes... I suppose this paintjob is unique...

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>>98901192
Not that guy, but I have bought plenty of those on aliexpress, amazon also have people selling those.

They do look better with some paint, I use MTN 94 acrylic artist rattle cans to prime them and then go over with my air brush.

>>98901237
>y-you can't confront me on bullshit that I try to pass off as criticism you heckin leftoid bullies :((
back to /40kg/

>>98901237
Post minis.

>>98900364
Thank anon!
>>98900389
Yeah I decided to go with the official scheme for my admech when starting out. I'm not looking for it to be unique or anything to be honest, I just like this clean style.
>>98900391
I know you're right, guess I'll do just that and do the same for the 2 other guys I did before to keep it consistent.

>>98901138
You could try milliput or tamiya quick type but the truth is that greenstuff is already the most beginner friendly and you're just going to be shit with anything until you build up the skills and experience not to be.

>>98901294
And there is nothing wrong with that, sometimes you just want the in universe faction as presented in the lore, or at least as primarily presented in the lore.
It's just the only criticism for it, as I did put first, there is nothing done wrong with the paintjob, even the tread dusting is artistically correct if not realistically correct.
Truly personal expression is a factor of art and it's the only factor not present here.
Don't mistake my sarcasm in the comments that followed as having anything to do with you, that was entirely directed at the fuckwit morons who can't handle criticism being seen anywhere.

>>98899572
>seethe more.
I dont like smelling my farts thank you. I do think the knight is cooler than calgar desu.

>>98895847
32. I've painted, just not miniatures and started because I found a KDM mini I had 15 years ago and put off because I had no idea how to paint it. Started during covid.

>>98901299
Thank you, i shall attempt to git gud and watch some tutorials.

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>>98901754 >>98902373

How do you identify genuine Ral Partha from recasts?
Are those in pic related legit?

whats a good basic range of colors? I'm going to buy some aliexpress prints and start painting again.

>>98901660
if you can't tell, what does it matter?
You're a hobbyist not a secondary speculator, right?

>>98899660
>>98899673
Thanks anon! That terrain is looking sweet all together btw, love the lush greens and retro vibes

>>98899846
Thanks mate! And yes, train model enthusiasts are indeed built differently. The toilet paper water technique ain't difficult to pull off though, neither is it particularly time consuming. My wife pulled it off first try, I'm positive you could do it as well with no issues.

>>98900176
Thx! Nah it's my wife's first knight. Mostly followed Vince's recipe from his recent knight video but she added an oil wash step and used dirty down rust instead of orange pigments.

>>98900318
This is fucking sweet anon, that plasma OSL is sexy

>>98901698
Ak 3rd gen for normal colors, Vallejo Metal Color for metallics

>>98901698
what this anon said >>98901967

>>98901347
>>98901237
>>98900389
You truly put it a lot of effort and time essentially saying nothing but "your mini lacks soul" with a lot of extra words. What's the point of that? As other anons have pointed out, you come off as a pretentious and salty faggot. Critique is all good when it's warranted but in this case it really wasn't

>>98901754
I'm a hobbyist, so quality and actually getting what I paid for matter, yes. A speculator wouldn't care if nobody could tell the difference.

>>98902032
Judging by his artschool insults hes probably the same retard who had a melty last thread about NMM. Or it could be the dreaded mutant trying to branch out.

>>98902099
/pol/jeet insults and talking points is craftsperg.

>>98901660
do they taste like lead?

>>98902063
>quality
>can't tell the difference

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>>98903830 >>98905430

Gonna try to do a diorama project, havent really done one before. Don't have a great base for her yet so probably will go to hobby lobby tomorrow and get a plastic cube or something to put everything on.

>>98901192
I got these on Amazon, but you can see they're the same trees being sold on aliexpress and a few other places. Probably all from the same factory.
The other plants I got are aquarium plants.
Like >>98901262 said, they look way better if you paint them. I just give the trunks some Agrax Earthshade and shave some mold lines down a bit, but I'm losing patience and can't be bothered doing them fully. I'm hoping for a little cheerleader effect when it's all on the table.

>>98901904
Thanks. I was initially using photos I took in Singapore as a reference for colours, but I'm kinda just going for whatever it is now. Just making everything very green and every non jungle piece being rusty and eaten up by the jungle.
Any suggestions what to do with the dead tree branches on the ground? I think they stand out too much on the terrain, but the greens on the jungle gamergrass set is a little warmer and might blend in better.

>>98901982
>>98901967
thank you guys, I appreciate it.

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>>98902462

I lied, one more for October!

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>>98902454
Last time Anon confused low-res red for rust so this time I thought I'd give it a proper try.
Please tell me you like it I worked slightly harder than usual.

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>>98902672 >>98902943

I will call this one done. Never mind the mold line on the foot. If anything I'll paint the rock when I put it on a base

>>98902373
Let's ask >>98902382 he would know, having licked so many as a kid.

>>98902602
This model will never see a tabletop in its life

>>98902672
You need to go back.

Has anyone posted a recent edition of the Stahly color swatches? Mine's probably 18 months out of date, doesn't have any of the Vallejo TMM stuff included.

>>98902416
>Any suggestions what to do with the dead tree branches on the ground? I think they stand out too much on the terrain
I can't really see this on the pictures honestly. Might be more jarring in real life but if it's not then I'd just leave it as is

>>98902602
Looks very nice anon. That bright tan leather is an interesting choice. How much time did you spend on this one?

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I finished the main zenithal for these guys. Just have to do the apothecaries and techmarine as well, but I've done enough airbrushing for tonight. I wanted the captain to be a little different from the regular guys so I tried a blue metallic zenithal on him to make it look like his armor was more pristine or something. I don't think it turned out like I wanted.

But these guys would just not let themselves be photographed. I think the metallic paint was messing with the exposure levels for the other guys or something.

>>98900569
I mean he's right about both

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>>98903282 >>98903436

some space men

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Working on some Space 1889 Martians, they're basically bronze age flintlock dudes. Finishing up the armor parts, gotta think of how to color those armor yet. This guy is probably my favorite mini of the bunch for obvious reasons.

>>98903261
I'm glad to see your guys finished their conquest of planet peanut butter but I'm worried about their success on planet cat litter.

>>98903261
Their faces look always so flat. Maybe more wash helps?

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>>98903968

glup shippo

>>98902404
Looks interesting. What model is this? Printed?

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>>98904455 >>98904833

It's in a very early state but do you think this color scheme works? Clothes are turquoise, black armor and the trim is decayed gold from S76.

>>98902943
I tried making it look like pale dead tree and matching photos of a palm tree I have, but it was way too pale so I gave it a very thin and spotty glaze of Snakebite Leather to warm it up just a little bit. The colours in the photos match what they look like in person. I don't know, it just looks a bit messy to me, but I'm trying to have a lot of plant variety to make it dense like a real jungle. The bases on the minis are going to be pretty much fully overgrown with grass and plants. Whatever isn't green will have the jungle floor stuff from Reality In Scale I bought.

>>98903439
What exactly am I looking at? I don't recognise this ship

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>>98904082

Are there any good online bits shops? I really want some heads from the new Custodes kits

>>98904026
There are, but they don't have websites. I used to email this Russian guy, but he's probably dead in a ditch by now.

>>98895884
Superb anon, I really like the glimming fire effects.

>>98902672
What do you mean is there a game associated with this?

>>98902943
Maybe about 8 days with a 2-4 hours each session? There was about a week I didn't paint at all after I finished the skin

>>98903830
Here's the lady.

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-female-barbarian-851359

The rocks except for the one she's standing on and the one behind her (those are cork) and cactus are also printed but I just found them on telegram don't know the creators.

>>98901904
>Nah it's my wife's first knight
Wait, are you the guy whose wife paints those really cool dark angels?

>>98902672
fuck off, craftsperg

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>>98904459 >>98904852 >>98905100

>>98904295
Yeah she's doing knights and various models with horses know lol she got sick of dark angels. I'm still painting orks and we're doing catachan spacenam together

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>>98903833
it should work, you're basically doing one of the official color schemes, but swapping purple for turquoise.

>>98904352
>Mixing up now and know
Hadn't had my first daily caffeine when I wrote that lol, brain was all mushy

>>98904183
Ah that ain't too bad, somewhere between 15-30 hours total. Are you planning on painting all your boyz like that, using this boy as a test unit for your scheme, or are you not really an army painter, just doing one offs of whatever you please?

>>98903899
Real jungle is messy as fuck though. I wouldn't worry about the jungle floor having a lot of color and texture variety, it just adds to the realism in my book. It's like a lasagna of different plants, living and dead, competing for space all stacked on top of each other

>>98904459
I'm mostly a blood bowl player, but these are test models (or try to be) to learn what techniques work or don't work for me
Though there is another ork that I'll do eventually I just really like the pose of so I want to do it best

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Finished 6 more dwarfs. Please forgive the terrible lighting in the picture.

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>>98904943

>>98903968
It's just something I threw together in blender. I had an urge to make a starfighter.

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one of my 80 customized kroots. my sanity worsening

>>98904280
Thanks, Anon.

>>98903833
since the primary color is black the blue is contrasting in a clown kind of way.

>>98904352
wow this looks awesome... Seriously the pegasus its amazing.

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>>98906716

I'm too lazy to paint more of the details, I'll call these done for now.

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>>98897214
Finished

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>>98904543
There's no fleet? No Starfighters? No plan?
One ship, you, me, and that's it?

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>>98905039 >>98905042 >>98905100 >>98905172 >>98905327

>want to paint a tank
>click on a tutorial
>airbrush comes into frame after 3 seconds
>click off

>>98905025
the problem?

>>98905025
>want to hammer a nail
>click on a tutorial
>hammer comes into frame after 3 seconds
Why are you like this?

>>98904352
I see, that's cool, the knight looks great. Wish I had a painter gf to freehand stuff for my templars. Cheers

>>98905025
I painted 3 tanks by brush and sponge, you can do it anon I believe in you.

Granted I primed with a rattle can of the same basecoat colour I wanted

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>>98905178 >>98905204 >>98905211 >>98905631 >>98906899

Do you guys know any kit developers who make more sexy sci-fi models? Not straight up nude models, but ripped abs and big muscles on guys or big booba/butts on girls? Or some looking like anime. Ideally holding guns.
I know there are a ton of 3d printed ones but I always struggled with the look and feel of painting resin.

>>98905042
more like
>want to hammer a nail
>click on a tutorial
>nail gun comes into frame after 3 seconds

>>98905115
Just get an airbrush, you absolute sperg. If you can't, don't bitch about people using the right tool for the job.

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>>98905156

>>98905042
Honestly man, once you try it you'll never be able to go back. It just makes everything so fast and easy and opens up a whole new range of possibilities. Just being able to prime indoors or apply matte varnish in a perfect even coat is worth any hassle.

>>98905153
whoops meant to reply to this guy >>98905115

>>98905025
This faggot is a gw-exclusive consoomer and has a backlog worth over $500 but will post shit like this and claim buying an airbrush is too expensive

>>98905114
Infinity has or had a bunch, there were a couple Kingdom Death sci-fi pinup models, Reaper's done a bunch but a lot of their faces can be pretty bad, Urban war had some but again the faces are generally pretty bad

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>>98905114
>Do you guys know any kit developers who make more sexy sci-fi models?
Soda Pop?

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>>98905459 >>98905468

>>98905114
Hasslefree Minaitures is effectively out of business (long story!), but some of their models are still floating around.

>>98905025
Have you tried sponge painting instead? You basically prime black and then rely on the lack of paint in the recesses to act as your contrast, rather than using washes to bring back contrast and detail, while using successively smaller sponges to apply coats of paint to raised surfaces using a stippling/poking motion.

>>98905327
why are you replying seriously to a shitpost, anon

>>98905344
Because that's how we create a high trust, functional society.

>>98905344
Either the dude's a retard and will act accordingly and make it obvious any advice is wasted, or they're genuinely having trouble with painting vehicles in which case giving them a helping hand improves their lot in life. At worst I've wasted 20~ seconds typing up a genuine response that might help someone else. At best I've pointed someone to an actual solution.

>>98905358
Anonymity, theoretical or actual, is in direct opposition of that.

>>98905344
>a shitpost
Needlessly confrontational. It's entirely believable that someone doesn't own an airbrush.

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>>98905449 >>98905512 >>98906009 >>98906412 >>98906899

>>98902404
Followup question for you all. The sand texture by itself lacks contrast, so I'm considering using a wash on it to give it a bit more color. What do you all think? I'm leaning towards reikland fleshshade and going for a kinda badland/red rock look.

>>98905430
Also, any input on composition?

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>>98905458 >>98905574

Happy Halloween bros, hope you all get out there and get some strange.

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>>98905874 >>98906009

>>98905449
Captcha ate my picture

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>>98905452

>>98905211
>long story
I kind of feel like "the owners were invalids who refused all help" is a pretty short story

>>98905211
>Hasslefree Minaitures is effectively out of business
Which is a shame since they had great minis.

>>98905430
Who da fuck buys 5 GW shades that are exactly the same

>>98905452
>hope you all get out there and get some strange.
I most certainly did
>get out there
Went to my local liquor store
>get some strange
Bought a new bottle of alcohol on sale to try out

>>98905114
>I always struggled with the look and feel of painting resin
What? What the fuck are you talking about? They're literally indistinguishable

>>98905455
that base seems twice too big for those elements to me
maybe if you added a big ass tall cactus or a dead tree or baobab on a corner but still

>>98905874
Well, I do have a smaller square base but I like the idea of having some open sand texture between the different elements. I'll think about it, not planning on gluing anything to the base until they're painted.

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Fitness goals for 2027

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>>98906054 >>98906056

>>98905969
If nothing else this would use less texture paste. Might be a bit crowded though.

>>98905430
>>98905455
I like the look of the Seraphim Sepia the most for what you have going on. Obviously that may change, depending on the colours of the model

>>98906001
cut her off the tactical rock and glue her to the other rock in the corner. also I think when you are making a diorama you are supposed to be making a scene, not just a character standing in the middle of some terrain. right now your layout just looks like you had space to fill so you put random doodads down to occupy it.

>>98906001
that's better

>>98906054
I originally wanted to put her on the big rock but it's not flat and I was having a hard time figuring out how to handle her feet so she'd be standing straight up and down. Maybe put some green stuff under her heel so that the rock surface rises up to meet her but that might look weird too? I do think taking her off the cork is probably the direction to go though. I'd like the focus to be on her, I'm not really making a battle scene or anything like that, but I also don't want it to just look like a bunch of stuff in a circle around her.

>>98906072
well she's looking over her shoulder so maybe put something behind her that she's looking at. also she seems to be doing the hand bra thing so you could be funny and have it be a critter running away with her shirt.

>>98906072
The issue I see with the cork is that its texture is vastly rougher than that of the plastic rocks, which will probably look weird when it's all painted
If you wanted to put her on an uneven rock I'd personally file down two little boot shaped dents for her to slot into and hide the fact that she's sunk into the rock with sand around the edges of the soles

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>>98906254 >>98906490

>>98906146
Hm. Maybe I can find an STL of a little monkey running with a piece of cloth or something.

>>98906153
Yeah. Stuck her on with blutak for now but maybe I'll try filing a flat surface on the rock tomorrow. Got candy to hand out now. Thanks for the feedback.

>>98906244
IMO stuff's too evenly distributed there to feel natural.

>>98906254
Yeah. Maybe I'll clump up the cacti and see how that looks

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>>98906899

>>98905430
Use different paints then wet blend them together
Then use multiple washes/contrast

>>98906244
I was going to say corpses, but I like the monkey idea

>>98905574
based

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>>98906899

>>98906490
Hmm. Not having a lot of luck with monkies, but I do have a bloodbowl snotling runt running off with a bra. Probably need to cut off the pom pom in his other hand though.

>>98904902
Look great, mate. I like your style.

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>>98906881 >>98906892

Base colors down. Still haven't decided if this should be a New Republic fighter or Pirate scum.

>>98906797
looks dry sprayed

>>98906797
This is cool!

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>>98906902

>>98904852
>>98905100
Thx anons!

>>98905114
Spacenam from reptilian overlords fits the bill. Also got plenty of normal minis in the range, it's not all coomer stuff

>>98905430
You could slather them all on at the same time and wet blend them together, also if you do the same with the base coat like >>98906412 did you'll get some nice natural variation

>>98906623
This is perfect lol

>>98906899
Fuck nevermind, I missed the part about anon not liking to work with resin

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>>98907054

Goddamnit! Any tips for painting lips?

>>98907020
Yeah, subtlety.