Currently painting my favourite GW mini ever. Will post my first vostroyan in a minute.
Owen Adams
First for dakka dakka dakka.
Logan King
Now with proppa dakka.
Hunter Howard
Looked through the tyranid codex. still can't decide on a color. oh boy.
Henry Cox
Kraken is the best scheme.
Cooper Stewart
finished some sylvaneth dryads
Easton Mitchell
>Place order at Dragonforge >then notice he has a six month backlog
for fucks sake...
Aiden Ross
He has that thousand yard stare.
Dylan Ward
damn these are cool but I'm not trying to paint eyes like that
David Evans
kraken is pretty good.
Andrew Russell
Install Dawn of War 2 and use the army painter to help
Christopher Lee
Little bit more progress.
My bits and kits order is late and I'm in a severe rokkit shortage, and I can't be bothered tinkering with the doors in plasticard yet.
Should I scratch out the details on the sides of the container and replace them with orky glyphs, or just leave the details on and paint them rusted over?
Juan Carter
oh cool, thanks
Adam Lopez
nps, you can also cycle through all the different troop types, it's really helpful.
Robert Kelly
i'll poke around for a torrent since i dont really want the game itself
Michael Garcia
Fair enough, I find it hard to believe there are 40k players who do not own this game at this point.
There does appear to be a demo on steam, not sure if that has the painter
Oliver Ramirez
I'm just getting started and havnt found much chat about the games out there
Hudson Gonzalez
First minis since 2010
Chase Gray
So, I'm in the makings of creating a Red Corsairs CSM army, and I wanna convert their warband leader into a real "raider/pirate/scum of the galaxy" type of guy. Any specific things that could? Maybe use some meat-things from OK (then again, they are awfully large, so maybe trhat wouldn't look good?)
really, any and all kinda of tips would be helpful.
Wyatt Watson
It's a neat conversion but what's the point of a battlewagon if it's not open-topped and unable to be assaulted out of?
Brandon Bennett
Looks cool?
Brayden Campbell
You're doing Red Corsairs but not using Huron as your warband leader? Thats crazy mang. He's hall of fame tier astartes
Benjamin Rivera
Which means he wouldn't be in every warband and would have many sub commanders ;)
Kevin Cruz
(Muffled Bauhaus emanating from land raider)
Michael Young
My first (and only) mini.
Zachary Williams
>first (and only) Tanith is he?
Leo Richardson
Looking good mang, what paints did you use for the highlights on the bark?
Dylan Scott
thanks man >dryad bark >wash of agrax >drybrush of baneblade brown >lighter drybrush of karak stone >thinned highlight of ushabiti bone
Michael Thompson
pretty good, but I feel you just gave up on the gun because it looks unfinished and/or sloppy
Cameron Miller
holy shit magnet tank has paint! woot!
Camden Williams
Ani, ya okay?
Wyatt Price
Had to fix GW's god awful "BLEH I'M DRACULA" pose for my 2nd Archon. Now he's 1000 times more smug and condescending. Rate?
Henry Hughes
So with the new Scions formation is out, and me sitting on a couple of squads of them, I thought I needed to have a Taurox Prime that I didn't want to obliterate with a sledgehammer the moment I looked at it.
So I took one of the secondhand ones I had and stripped it (original paint was some wierd glittery blue; I could not have made it uglier if I tried), then tore off the track pods. The wheels I'm replacing them with are still in the mail.
Then I took the turret and rebuilt it, gluing the hot-shot volley guns together as a twin-linked array and attaching them to the turret. I had to magnetize the turret as a result, since it could no longer rotate 90 degrees from neutral, but that wasn't hard.
I also threw on some bits from a tank upgrade sprue I had lying around. If it turns out good I might do the same to the other THREE tauroxes I've got sitting around, but I don't really see it happening at the moment.
Asher Kelly
Here's the first squad I painted fully
Xavier Brown
newest finished models
Elijah Russell
So after much carving i finally managed to fit a GK head on a new plastic librarian. I did use a power armor helm but whatevs. Dose this look fully retarded? I went with left arm from the regler GK termis to make it easy to magnetize the staff/hammer/falcons.
Hunter Baker
you can call them finished when those bases are also done.
Christopher Kelly
I just got done stripping an old army and I have like a hundred little pewter units...
How should I store them? I know pewter is malleable, so it would be very bad to put them into a container all together, right? or are they pretty durable?
Grayson Brooks
bugger off you silly chucklenugget, ape fondling wet-eared limp-willy
The middle one was based after the pic, I'll do the rest of them later on, just look at the paint job on them and forget the basing, it's nothing special either way
Sebastian Cox
Alright guys, how do you think this bad boy turned out?
I think I'm going to add a thin red line along the marks on his arms to give them some depth.
Blake Edwards
without paint on them you can do whatever the fuck you want and as long as you're not shaking the box they'll be all right.
After painted they'll chip if you look at them funny
Gavin Williams
Quick paint job of the AoS Dragonfate Dias for use a an Orgoth ruin for Warmahordes, or for use in Confrontation. imgur.com/a/hps9N
Sebastian Butler
it looks pretty neat, but fucking post the images here you lazy cunt, it's called an imageboard for a reason
Daniel Bell
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Nathaniel Moore
take a clearer picture
put more green saturation onto the glow of the statues, it looks bleached
Joseph Lee
>POST YOUR FIRST MINI EDITION
I posted them last thread: .
I wrestled with the idea of buying this myself, but as I am wont to do (and don't really have the capital to spill so many beans - even if this lot has *three* Johnnies in it!), I posted this here.
Brody Reyes
>POST YOUR FIRST MINI EDITION
Fulgrim and the boyz were from about a year and a half ago
The right are my current WIP
Dylan Ramirez
all orky stuff get s shot and patched on a daily basis right?
Carter Lee
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Lincoln Morales
"Sighs, I'm not like other marines"
nice technical work, but its seems very emo without a body to put it in perspective.
Nicholas Murphy
You're right. It is sloppy.
Gavin Cruz
I like it, where did you find that dual gatling gun?
Wyatt Brown
so this is attempt #1 at necron-like gems for my bases. wanted to see if I liked the red or purple more, and I think I like the red. am going to go to the park to "borrow" some sand though, since this isn't rocky enough like a necron world. any advice on how to make the gems and glow better looking paint-wise? I didn't spend time getting their shape perfected.
Dominic Martin
looks like he already has a thin line along his arms
Jordan Ortiz
I meant within the red layer I already slopped down
Aaron Edwards
>POST YOUR FIRST MINI EDITION
This is as close to first mini as I can get, as it dates back to 2003 (after about 8 years of painting minis and a year working part time at a GW store), and between 2005-2013 I had a very long break from painting, and it took the best part of a year to get back to this standard and surpass it.
I wish I had older to show, but models like that after 20 odd years get lost, damaged or just thrown out/exchanged.
Jacob Reyes
>POST YOUR FIRST MINI EDITION 2 years of progress in pic related.
Levi Lopez
Oddly enough the Confrontation mini look more at home in this than the AoS minis, imo.
Anyway, I'm not a fan of the scenery in general but the paint scheme on this one makes it work better than the studio paintjob GW uses. Well done.
Hunter Price
That is some excellent progress.
Benjamin Baker
Thanks, friend.
Parker Anderson
Most of the AoS terrain (except the Chaos shite) looks so high fantasy that it was what immediately struck me about them. I need to get the weird sphere thing next.
Jeremiah Young
I think the highlights make it look kind of flat. Did you just use white? Kind of makes them look 'ashy' or just desaturated. If you want to highlight with white you really have to go up all the way to white for it to look like they glow.
Personally I'd say they'd look a little more alive if you highlighted the red with yellow for example. More saturation.
Gavin Ross
He's giving you shit about the mould lines.
Looks nice, some deeper shading will help though.
Josiah Sanders
no, I used lighter colors of red/purple. like mephiston red and a different red. I'll see how yellow works
Austin Kelly
Reminds me of those monsters with the membranous wings from Beastmaster.
John Cox
try putting some tiny extreme highlights on the corners first. The ones in your picture don't look bad, they're cleanly painted, they just don't really look like they'd be bright enough to be a lightsource.
Connor Torres
how do you do extreme highlights? mix the red with white or yellow? the guide I look at mentions them too
Dylan Diaz
It just means to highlight the most prominent parts with the brightest paint.
If you were to paint a cube with edge highlights you'd be building up a color gradient on the highlights towards the corners of the cube, were the edges meet, to visually 'sharpen' them if that makes sense.
It basically mimics how light would behave on a sharp corner like the edge of a knife for example.
The greater the contrast in that gradient the sharper the corner will look.
In this case it's just a matter to increase the contrast so the crystals look like they are actually the source of the light on base itself.
Another thing you could have a look at - completely unrelated to the highlighting thing though - could be how crystals sometimes reflect facets of themselves. That way you could break up the even surfaces with refracted light too. Just an idea though.
Caleb Bennett
That's the Taurox Gatling Cannon, it's actually a standard part of the kit.
Easton Mitchell
What a 8 year break looks like when you start painting again.
Liam Johnson
Are there any good tutorials for painting beastmen?
alright, I tried some things. I think I'm happier with how it turned out. the white dry brush on the glow started behaving weirdly, but I'm more concerned with the stone itself. going to cut a good looking stone and retrieve some sand tomorrow for a true try. going to work on the gradient for the highlighting too. think I should make the corners even brighter too.
James Thompson
you went from 10 year old to 'eavy metal. well done.
Grayson Roberts
Well honestly, for a first mini, it is a very good one. The eyes aren't even that bad honestly.
Carson Harris
As a personal note from someone who worked with this mini and helped another friend with his; be careful with the head. It is quite a tight fit into the armor, and it barely has the clearance to make it with the mo-hawk as it was. I used a forgeworld Blood Angel head on mine, and had a very rough time with it.
Matthew Hill
Anyone got any cool ideas for how to paint a nurgle themed chaos marine army?
I have alot of standard units, some chosen, some regular terminators but I do want a nurgle themed army.
Noah Gomez
Which mini is this?
Don't think it's his first mini, just his first Vostroyan.
Owen Adams
Decent paint jobs ruined by huge gaps, user.
Dominic Cruz
IMO The gems should be far brighter. They are the source of light for the surrounding area, and it looks like the colour they're painted is the same tone as the 'glow' area around them.
It looks good though man, keep experimenting with it!
Similar to this one, the eyes are super bright and the glow is a little bit muted, looks pretty nice!
Easton Rogers
I thought that too but I think he means that it's the first one he's done and he doesn't plan to do anymore.
Jose Anderson
>Which mini is this? Pic-related. Nearly finished basing the sucker! Will post reverse in a second.
>Don't think it's his first mini, just his first Vostroyan That's right! My first mini ever was a Silver Skulls marine from the combat squad box.
Liam Torres
Basing scheme will be wasteland with some scrub.
John Green
im aware. I shaved the mohawk off first so i should be able to get it in. Worst case i have to snap off the chest plate to get it in
Ayden Long
I'll rate him a "makes me wish the FAQ didn't just nerf DE so I could start playing them"/10.
Joseph White
You need to indicate where you were at before the break though.
Jaxon Williams
I don't have a record of that but it wasn't much better than the Rackham figure I posted.
Elijah Sullivan
Sorry I misread your post. Didn't realise you were the same person.
James Scott
Oh, good. I did the same this on mine and still had a hard time. Needed to shave off most of the back side of the head I used.
Jeremiah Carter
Looks good so far.
Don't forget your moldlines and gun barrels.
Nathan Myers
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA TIME FOR DEATH
Hudson Green
>Don't talk to me or my wife's son
Ryan Howard
90% there
Nathan Parker
w/ rocket launcher
Josiah Reed
Great stealth suit! Basically perfect camo job.
Connor Price
kek
Nicholas Kelly
It's part of a larger Speed Freeks army. It's gonna have a Big Mek with a KFF with a min squad of tankbustas, with 4 rokkits on the battlewagon itself. I think with the invuln save it'll be a fun little rokkit platform.
Other than that it'll be a nice show piece. I'm making a big vehicle-only Armies on Parade display on a dirt track with all my vehicles. This will be the only vehicle without any Orks operating it on the outside, so I'm gonna have it in a pit stop with a bunch of grots working on it while the buggies race around.
