I'm entertaining the idea to add some spawn to my Thousand Sons army. What would egyptian-styled Spawn look like? Perhaps fluff-wise they would be experiments by the Sorcerers of the warband in figuring out potential anti-rubric measures on human captives? The failures are completely obedient to the creators like beaten dogs.
Anthony Martin
Egyptian animals?
Scarab beetle? animal headed sorcerer with a few extra tentacles, imo, spawn doesn't always have to mean misshapen lump of flesh, just a mind broken mutant
Connor Ross
>spawn doesn't always have to mean misshapen lump of flesh Oh I know it doesn't, I'm tired and taking ideas. Always ask other creatives cause my view may be too narrow.
Blake Robinson
>$4.25 for a jar of citadel paint wew it's been a while since I've bought this stuff
Isaac Green
Complete 40k/modeling noob here, are cadian legs and torsos supposed to look more flush? Am i doing it right?
Xavier Young
Sorry for any broken necks
Alexander Cook
Looks fine to me Australia-kun.
Alexander Price
You could use tomb kings ushabti. If you are looking for egyptian style in general Reaper has a line of egyptian undead, not sure if they got anything as big as a spawn though. Wargods of aegyptus have a whole range of egyptian fantasy miniatures styled after various egyptian gods. They don't have many big monster units either afaik, but the crocodile faction is based on 40mm unless I'm mistaken. Giant scarabs or something could be neat as well.
Or maybe some of these Silver Tower cultist dudes. If they are to scale with all the other AoS guys they should tower over regularly sized 28mm minis.
Jordan Jenkins
Or get some huge flame elementals and combine them with blue horror parts to create a huge flaming spawn ball of horrors.
Or try to convert some skeksis.
You could convert Minotaurs with heads from Giant Eagles.
Bentley Long
I already use an Ushabti with LotR Great Eagle wings as my DP and the Sorcerers that will be accompanied by the Spawn are WHF Tomb Guard models, so I'd like to do something different than skellies for them.
Animal beasts sound good honestly. Something that makes you think "Mindless rip and tear machine under complete control of a leader", a swarming mentality perhaps.
Could maybe take a page from The Mummy's handbook and have Spawn be a mass of scarabs moving as one like a hivemind?
Joseph Garcia
Yeah those could work too. I'll hear more suggestions and look up some inspiration too and mull it over to come up with something cool. I'm on board with animal beasts or scarabs right now.
Jackson Gutierrez
my Warhammer Quest Silver Tower custom Lord of Plagues guy, still a wip and more to do.
Hunter Reyes
Looks good fampai. But I need to know how you are doing the rules for him so I can also do my own Heroes?
Matthew Gonzalez
bit of a cop out on this one, i'm just copying the rules from the white dwarf. The good people at the age of sigmar general, have all the heroes from the app created in card form in the paste bin.
Oliver Jones
A little something something I'm making for a one-off painting project (thinking the Crimson Shades)
Looking for input from user on what to arm him with. Leaning pretty hard toward the power fist, since it used to be a sergeant staple that you don't really see anymore, due to challenges.
Lincoln Lewis
I can tell you're the same guy who does the weathered green chaos marine because you use the same technique
Thomas Russell
Pic of the dp?
Christian Perry
Cadians are one of their older kits (from 2002) and aren't as flush. You will want to trim them for a really flush fit.
Newer kits like Scions will fit together great.
Also how can you stay calm enough to model with all the dangerous wildlife around?
Ayden Jenkins
You should totally do his other arm posed like he's pulling a pair of crimson shades from his face Horatio Caine style. And you need to prepare a long list of cheesy one liners you can use to demoralize your opponents, while gaming.
power fist and bolt pistol or chainsword and bolt pistol is a great combo, and if gaming isn't a concern imo the chainsword is even more iconic. Could just be me because I grew up on cheapo 3rd edition sarges with chainswords and boltpistols though.
Ryan Walker
Don't have a photo handy and the wings I need to refix onto his back due to a breakage but it's basically this model with dark blue/purple skin and golden armour.
I quite like its lithe appearance, I find it quite befitting the TS and Lords of Change generally look emaciated too, so it's cool to have a DP reflect that nature too.
Julian Turner
Reposting warboss
Need to do some more extreme highlights and touch up some places
Kevin Wright
Focus on making the front flush, and don't worry about the sides and back. You can use the pouches and equipment to cover up the seam in the back and around the sides and no one will really notice.
Leo Miller
Bolt pistol will look very dinky on a body that big. Maybe a fully fledged boltgun?
Isaiah Foster
How difficult would it be to greenstuff regular Cadians to bolster my Kasrkin numbers?
Noah Foster
you think? Boltpistols are huge. I don't think it would off. Just more like the artwork.
William Richardson
opinions. first knight i've ever built/painted. this was my test one out of the renegade box. the other is going to be the crimson reaper paint scheme. theyre both going with my blood angels/cult mech army.
Brayden Wright
i might paint over the battle damage i did on the shoulders. the more i look at it the more i dislike it
James Ortiz
Difficult enough that if I were you I'd simply buy a squad or two for the $15 they're selling for on Ebay.
OR, if you insist on NIB, go for $20.
Cameron Martin
Would be easier to just buy some of these and add some breathing masks from FW to kitbash your own. You could try substituting the Scions' rifles for the hellguns.
If you want to convert stuff you'd have to add kneepads and armor on the arms with GS and add some armor plating on the hips with plastic card. Depends really on how good you are with GS, but since you are asking I assume you don't have much experience sculpting?
The next best thing would probably be using 3rd party bodies entirely. Pig Iron have a nice affordable range of stuff. They also have some armored system troopers that could do the trick. If you stick a GW head on them they should look close enough I figure.
Josiah Wood
Not even the other guy but in my corner of the world Kasrkin are a hot commodity. They are pretty expensive usually.
Noah Harris
Bully! you clearly took your time getting the separation between different paints, and that's the big factor on those large, pricey models. I've seen many a knight that was clearly painted in an hour, and on a $150 model that's simply sad.
Next, get to shading, highlighting, and using the transfers. My knight took me over two months to paint, three including to assemble with all the gluing and magnetizing. But it was worth it.
Jordan Ramirez
>Biting your nails >Then painting them
Ew.
Bentley Harris
the nails are from spray priming.
i actually just painted this up during the day. i had it off so i spent probably 5 hours or so messing around with it. all I have are the renegade transfers, so i'm hoping to get my hands on the actual knight transfers, but it's not looking good.
Chase Campbell
OH! I completely misunderstood you, I thought you were going to get standard Cadian infantry to just have in your army, and were considering building them from SCRATCH out of greenstuff. Hence my response: Kasrkin have four big things that are different from standard Cadians, model-wise: >armored upper leg/knee >gauntlets >backpacks (all soldiers have them, even sergeants) >weapons (special weapons are the same but pistols and lasguns have a power cable leading to the backpack)
I can't imagine greenstuffing all that off a Cadian model for entire squads. My response is the same, except a squad of Kasrkin is $30.
Jack Stewart
Guys.
Snow.
How to? Where to? Tutorials? Good alternatives? Anything you got please, I don't want to buy the expensive GW snow if I can avoid it..
Eli Nelson
Maybe the photo's hiding the crimes, then. Either way a Knight is not a 5-hour job. It's not even a 5-day job if you REALLY want it to look pretty.
Nathaniel Cooper
Flock the base, then paint the flock the lightest shade of grey you've got once the glue's dry. Don't wash. Highlight with an overbrush of white, applied at least twice. See if that works.
Caleb Bailey
tfw I'm going to have like 70 unpainted Kasrkin once my next trade goes through
new Cadians when
they're like $45 per 10 from what I've seen
Ethan Price
Yo wip I got some weathering powder for my tanks. No idea how to use it. Also can I use that Stirland mud GW technical for mud and stuff on tank treads? I need some advice
Robert Parker
I'm seeing metalcast Kasrkin on ebay for 5/$30 right now. Just google it.
Also, 70 of them? They use Scions rules now, so they're at Space Marine point levels. How could you even use that many models in a game?
Ryan Jenkins
>Maybe a fully fledged boltgun?
Unless your model has a rule like "Relentless", firing the bolt gun prevents him from charging and bringing that awesome power fist to bear. That being said, the power fist is a "Specialist" weapon, so pairing it with a bolt pistol will not grant you an additional attack, either. You *could* opt to give him another specialist weapon, such as a lightning claw, or just give him the bolt gun (it's free) anyway and make sure he's the lad who throws his unit's single grenade (frag or krak, take your pick) during the shooting phase if you want to follow up with an assault.
Jack Stewart
It's my first warhammers models, fellas. Just bought it a few mins ago
So far: I've removed the plastic wrap from the box.
I'll keep you updated.
Lincoln Jenkins
I've got a full 10 man squad already, So I'll just plan on making some extra special weapons guys and a unit sergeant and run two to three small five man units or something. Got some of the masks from the cadian command set, biggest hurdle I think will be the backpacks, but I got a ton of Cadian voxes I'm considering cutting up.
Angel Lewis
Holy shit. 40k's rules sound worse each time I hear people talking about the new stuff.
Angel Lopez
Hit me with all of your church pictures.
Parker Jones
Thin your plastic wrap
Logan Harris
>10 good men That's all you need to run 'Chenkov's Revenge'. Just give two of them meltas, make one a sergeant, one an officer, find a commissar somewhere, give him a mustache, use that Taurox model you were considering throwing out, and SEND IN THE NEXT WAVE!
Seriously, this formation is the only reason I still own my Taurox. That and I couldn't find anyone to buy it.
Nathaniel Powell
Follow the photo guide, fuck, what am I even looking at?
Samuel Sullivan
Oh my god. I need to buy commisars right now.
Liam Barnes
...
Lincoln Butler
Oh yeah, I'm talking 10 for $45, more or less the same as 5 for $30 I guess And yeah it's become sort of an addiction. People sell them to me for cheap so I buy them. I'll probably never use them, I do want to start a small Vostroyan force but they're rarer than Kasrkins albeit cheaper.
James Powell
Hey /wip/ I was hoping you guys might be able to help me out, I want to try and convert a mini to look like D.Va and her mech from overwatch. I have no idea what a good starting model would be for that though. I was thinking one of the TAGs from infinity at first but nothing looks close enough (mostly proportional human shapes).
Suggestions?
Matthew Taylor
Use a model that blows up when it dies.
Jordan Jackson
Take a rider and body from an Infinity mech then replace the head up with a piece shaped like that.
Hudson Kelly
kitbash an imperal knight, a dreadknight, a a couple eldar jetbikes, and use bits from eldar tanks
Brody Flores
It's a painting project. If he was going to even consider running that sergeant in a game he wouldn't be taking a power fist at all.
He's asking for something that looks iconic.
Christian Sanders
Make the Commissar a Lord Commissar, to properly represent Chenkov and his ability to inspire fear even into Commissars.
Hunter Evans
anyone else think her arms shouldn't be so exposed?
Anthony Reyes
overwatch has a lot of amputee character that are missing arms or legs
Hana has all of her limbs still. She wants to fit in with the team, but doesn't want to remove healthy limbs. She figures leaving her arms exposed might get one (or both) blown off.
Christopher Price
>Chenkov >being the most senior Commissar in a theatre of operations First, if the Lord Commissar in a theatre is commanding a frontline combat unit, something has gone wrong. Second, if it's Chenkov, something has gone VERY wrong.
Joseph Peterson
It's a box.
Nolan Mitchell
since some faggot was losing his temper over me not posting in this thread.....
here's me starting to see if cheap shitty acrylics will actually do a half decent job at miniatures. First test is a shitty dollar store army man because I don't want to ruin something actually worth anything.
Evan Garcia
You could probably start with a Heavy Myrmidon from Warmachine and build it up/cut it down from there.
Extremely similar body layout if you're down for more than just kitbasing.
Christian Rodriguez
Now I feel like painting some Scions as Spetsnaz or summat like that.
Gabriel Bailey
Cute. I actually scored a quad this evening Throwing my mech at an objective the opposing team was trying to cap. My current predicament is that not much looks like the top. The legs would probably be easy if I cut and repositioned the Lizard squadron legs, I just shudder to think how much work it's gonna take with it being metal. Would be too big in that case, Just trying to make something TAG or dreadnaught sized. cute pic though
Chase Barnes
>Suggestions?
Reminds me of some of the walkers Soda Pop miniatures made.
Noah Lopez
I'll keep this in mind, the feet would need to be trimmed back and swapped out, and again I'd need the ship for the top, but it's closer than I was.
Caleb Thomas
>He's asking for something that looks iconic.
One need look no further than the work of John Blanche. Bolt gun and power fist it is!
Jack Morgan
Oh fuck, Good call.
Brayden Cook
This is actually pretty close IMO, would still need to make the dome and machine gun arms but It's already half-way there. Guess I need to start getting good with Plasticraft so I can do up the rest of this. Thanks for the help guys.
Dylan Thomas
>ass in the air Jesus, if you use this fix that pose. She's gonna break her spine. Or her hymen...
Hudson Price
Yeah I know, I think I'll probably end up cutting that model in half, and laying it flat along the inside of the dome.
Caleb Jackson
thread ended before i could post this AKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Juan Long
some updates on the scibor minis i've been working on
Lucas Sullivan
shot of the base
Jayden Mitchell
Does anyone else get triggered by people putting basing material on clear flying bases, or priming flying stems (and especially the big flyer jet stems) black?
I thought they were clear for a reason: so you keep it clear and it matches any terrain. But even GW bases it.
Brayden Hernandez
I was about to suggest this for . Probably closest he's going to get without building from scratch.
Aaron Myers
I've actually started using Underground Lasers laser cut plastic tokens for bases. They're the same base size and thickness, but they're transparent, colored plastic with patterns laser engraved in them. Using them for scifi miniatures makes them look slick like you're observing a computer overlay of the situation, and using them for fantasy makes them look like they have a magic circle or aura at their feet.
Nathan Reyes
Anyone know a good company to commission 3d prints from? I've got a model I need made for conversion purposes.
William Ross
[Amazing chest ahead]
Grayson White
[Try washing?]
Brayden Wood
You guys have any special things where you put your minis while you let the paint dry or do you just sit it where you left it?
Aiden Perez
No, not with a handsculpt like that. You'll just end up revealing all the texturing, which will look wierd on tits. Either smooth it over, then shade it, or shade it manually.
James Garcia
Is acetone-containing nail polish remover good for metal minis? Otherwise it's going to take millennia stripping these clean with simple green.
Eli Martinez
That wasn't a handsculpt on the chest, unfortunately. The mini was this one, before I added the spider face. .
Acetone is fine on metal. just beware damaging your bases.
Anthony Powell
CSM Sucks, get a different army
Mason Perry
>Tfw trying to stay centered on Alpha Legion >Tfw everything else looks cool, so i'll just take one squad or model to get it out of my system >Have more squads of other shit than AL army now
Fug
Jace Mitchell
Getting close to finishing this Contemptor. I just need to finish the rust effects with some oil paint and turpentine, then figure out how I want the bare metal parts to look. I'd like to give them a greasy and oil-smeared look but can't decide how I should do it.
Ian Morris
Hello guys, I want to start painting my army, but I don't own the tools, can you advice me a good deal to start? Some kind of bundle or similar? If cheap is better.
Anthony Sanders
Paint is literally 4 bucks a pot, just get what you need for starting out. You probably won't need a ton of paints if you're just starting out, so even like 6 paints (which is enough for a basic color scheme) is just 24 dollars plus tax. Brushes can be found rather cheap for about ~7 a pack.
If you were looking for something that might appeal to a certain color scheme, then there might be something out there for the more uniform armies like Ultramarines and Leviathan
Michael Sullivan
Working on a similar knight for my Blood Angels / Mech Cult.
Carter Sullivan
the bundles from privateer press, army painter etc have good tools, but tend to overdo it for what you need to start out. they try to sell you the whole workshop so to speak. things you need, barebones edition: plastic glue/polycement (for your miniatures) hobby knife + blades sprue clippers cheap synthetic brush pack (the five dollar cornerstore type that have a variety of sizes)
I'd also recommend a plastic painting palette for mixing your paints.
that's what I started with. citadel paints are good for 40k models, but dont buy any citadel tools. they cost twice what the other companies do, and arent worth it.
Caleb Thomas
See if there are some gundam stuff that could be kitbashed into something appropriate perhaps.
Carter Parker
Well this is where it should be posted.
Use a metal mini and strip it after. What you're testing needs the finer details of a hobby grade mini. The larger pigments of the crappy acrylic is what would be obsuring details, you wont see that if there aren't really that many fine details.
Proper science mode: get two identical minis and paint them both. One with model paint one with non model and see if there's a thickness difference.
Colton Lewis
I replace the clear bases with actual bases and match it to my army.
Uniformity is better. The clear bases look a bit crappy in my opinion.
Nicholas Ward
Not bad. Her human part is way out of scale to the spider if you were trying to match the game. But it's fine for heroic scale I suppose.
