My first captain, tactical squad with a combi flamer.
There are a few things I had no idea how to do, or knew I was going to be balls at them: pupils, eyes, combi-weapons, studded shoulders.
This is all pre-decal and I might highlight some more. What do y'all think?
Chase Ward
And by captain I mean sergeant
Leo Bennett
I think it's considerably better than my first model, which was a horrifying amalgamation of drybrushing.
Without trying to meme, if you don't already, I'd suggest using something as a palette so you can rid yourself of excess paint on your brushes if you glob too much on by accident.
The only colours that look like they need thinning are your red and white, especially the red on the combi-bolter. If you find it's requiring coats, try using a base paint on the locations first, grey for the white areas and brown for the red.
Your wash looks evenly coated except for the left shoulder, if you're getting tidemarks as you go, get a clean brush, wet it a little and push the accumulating pigments into a corner or detail line before it dries. I wash the smaller details first and leave the large open ones 'till last, so they can be focused on to the exclusion of all others.
As for the rest, I think it's just a matter of practice. in areas like the joints on the inner thighs, the metal on the backpack your hand will steady easier the more you paint.
Also, don't forget to paint the grip of the combi-weapon. Your edge highlighting is fine, as it looks like you're making the model do all the work for you with how neat they are, just a matter of learning better control over your brush for the earlier mentioned details, unless you're doing what I used to do, which is jabbing paint onto tiny remaining details because you're worried of getting it on the yellow (ex-bad moon player)
Solid start, nice to see a Sergeant who remembered his helmet for once. Keep at it, and post moar
Xavier Ward
have you tried using cididel air paints? they are conciderably thinner, so they will not look like golems. may i also recomend painting some easier colours than yellow untill you are better? it is quite a hard colour ro get right. i would recomend another legion for now.
Kevin Fisher
Guys, whats the most bright wizard like miniature?
I was thinking about buying the battlemage pack. But not sure what it all comes with.
Dylan Bailey
the GW plastic kit has a bright wizard on the box and everything you need to build one armed with a sword or a staff.
Aside from that you could also just have a look around for wizards. Reaper and Northstar minis sell a pretty good range of Wizards, if you keep an eye out for elementalists you'll always find a fireball slinging one.
Oliver Sanders
The Battlemage box allows you to make a Bright Wizard and 1 other Wizard Or you could try finding the old metal brightwizard which looks nicer
Nathan Turner
Seriously why does GW not post images of the sprues in the box so i can make up my goddamn mind.
Thanks will also check out the ones you mentioned.
Joseph Adams
They do for most of the newer models its just things released before 2010 that don't have images of the sprue
Lucas Clark
Who else /batchpainting/ here?
only 30 more after these...
Nathan Diaz
>screw-top GW paints those were the fucking worst
Adam Davis
my nurgles rot basing comes out really uneven, even though i emulate god-king duncan as well as I can. is there a trick to it? should I try thinning it with a medium or will that fuck it up more?
Caleb Lee
Isn't it meant to do slime effects instead of pooling?
Cooper Flores
here he uses three coats of nurgles rot over a base layer of caliban green to get a really smooth effect, but it's just not a paint that lends itself well to spreading evenly.
Leo Ross
yeah, but they make great model holders
Logan Cooper
It doesn't look even in the video either. The picture you made is too blurry to tell but it looks fine.
Tyler Perry
I have another 15 of these
Matthew Edwards
So I've got a starter set with pic related showing up, and I've got no idea how to paint pallid flesh. I'd like to do something similar, but you folks have any suggestions?
Liam Butler
is it a good idea to paint freehand so early? It propably should be last thing you do
Aiden James
Buy pallid flesh paint
Thomas Perry
Perhaps but to be honest I was struggling with them and I thought this might peak my interest for a bit, and it It was alright actually.
Daniel Price
Looking good
Tyler Edwards
I've had this model super WIP for the past 2 weeks. I'm stuck as to whether or not I should add (a) wrist-mounted bolter(s) or leave him as is so he doesn't look too bulky.
I still have a bunch of ornamentation I'm planning on adding, but I want to figure out the main model first. Any suggestions?
Matthew Gonzalez
Also sorry for the shit quality, I didn't bother to set up my photobox for these shots.
Ian Green
I'd go with left.
What parts did you use?
Justin Adams
The skull motifs are fantastic, except for pantsu-orc (second from left)
Hudson Gomez
Deathwing for body and legs, Honor guard SM head, CSM lightning claws converted into powerfists with lots of cables from centurions.
Lincoln Phillips
Here you go, friend
Jackson Cooper
gay sex with hats on? user, what is wrong? does exposed hair ruin it for you?
David Kelly
Are you referring the fist from your perspective or the marine's? I think user was talking from their POV.
Carson Turner
left arm
Adam Russell
Thanks guys
Also we must have clearly been thinking the same thing because I already tweaked him, his mask is in such a weird position I can't draw jawz
I think it looks a little better now
Michael Jenkins
Ive done the 9 original legions. Ive done these 6 ( minotaur, space shark, son of antaeus, blood raven, black dragon, flesh tearer).
Aftet these what would you consider the most popular or astartes chapters? Ive got crimson fists, black templars, scythes of the emperor, but i need 12 more after that.
Leo Phillips
Mantis Warriors or Fire Angels need some love. I still think pick a couple of the popular Veeky Forums homebrew chapters though.
Cooper Lewis
I need the black templar to stare angrily at the librarians
Ryan Cruz
Mantis Warriors, Rainbow Warriors, Relictors, Lamenters and my personal favorite, Brazen Claws would be cool to see.
and avoid Veeky Forums homebrew chapters. Nine times out of then, they are horrible.
Cameron Adams
Made some quick terrain for Necromunda.
Connor Jones
The freehands are cool but printables are easier for these things.
Ian Morris
>On one of the best painting sprees in years. >Have to do university stuff.
Why crual fate.
Connor Jenkins
Emma from Warhammer TV may have been made redundant, watching her twitch steam and the cringey sycophantic thirsty betas were talking about her donation bar (for a new desk) and she said,
>I'm moving house and I need a desk because I've been made redundant
I guess WH TV is just based Duncan again
Robert Diaz
Just put off graduation for a while
Grayson Phillips
Is there any ways to add more weapons to my techmarine. I'd just like to add most possible weapons to him just for fun.
Noah Brown
The model is very busy already but you can always make a whole bunch of servo skulls and servitors for him.
Jackson Sanchez
Red Talons, Black Dragons, Lamentors, Red Scorpions, Fire Hawks.
Joshua Stewart
Hawk Lords, Howling Gryphons and Imperial Fists come to mind. Also Ultramarines
Ayden Bennett
Have some.
Joseph Morales
...
Noah Russell
Which of these products is most like Lahmian Medium?
A bit of all 3, with 1 & 2 being the majority components. It may well contain some medium components to help keep the paint cohesive if you dilute it a lot.
Luke Fisher
Get some Badab War chapters in there
Nicholas Brooks
How do I get this shade of blue? Did he just do macragge blue?
Charles Ward
Ryza pattern Demolisher turret because I'm not a fan of the GW snub-nose Demolisher barrel
Jason Young
no, this guy did not "just do" macragge blue. This guy probably hand selected a single drop from a hundred pots of GW, Vallejo, MiG, P3, and Privateer bottles to make the shade.
seriously, the artists who made is an artist not a hobbyist. Its a different class of painting which doesnt really belong on in this wip thread. This thread isnt worthy enough, just see this cockbag:
Cameron Barnes
Starting work on this guy and was wondering what direction I should take with him. Anyone have any ideas?
Noah White
>that palette choice coincidence?
Jayden Stewart
what is this model?
Gavin King
doge knight
Dylan King
Hahaha, actually yes, even though I love the souls series. I was originally planning on black steel with blue and gold through out.
Kingdom Death - Black Knight, Not fully built though.
Joshua Perez
Had a go at doing the bosses face, teeth and tongue still WIP.
Blake Gray
What paints are you using for the skin? love the results, very moody
Bentley Reyes
I am ALL about the Death World Forest now.
I've spent the last decade painting Orks a very specific way (much brighter)
I experimented with one model using Death World Forest (in a spare 15 minutes I had before going to the pub) and I'll never look back.
I also darken with DWF and highlight with DWF
Dylan Campbell
it's gorgeous. is the brown you use on eyes/ears/mouths also a GW paint?
Mason Ward
A couple of weeks ago there were some anons saying they had ordered some Scale75 paints and would post about them once they had tried them -- are any of them here, or does anyone remember what their opinions were on the paints?
Isaac Moore
Thanks bud, It's a glaze, of three GW paints.
DWF, Dryad Bark, Incubi Darkness
It looks like mud on the palette, but after a few glazes it looks really nice (imo)
Jaxson Price
That's confirmed, I hopped on and she was talking about it.
Her and Dunc got a new boss, she suspected he wasn't a fan of her stuff and got laid off almost straight away.
Robert Foster
do you use any type of glazing medium? I wanted to try glazing and have heard mixed reviews on its use. there's also so many options its a little overwhelming for someone who doesnt know where to start looking
Robert Parker
Glazing is a great tool for creating seamless blends, it's a relatively advanced technique, I probably do the babbiest version I would think.
I just use water + a wet palette
Glazing is just applying a heavily diluted paint but very thinly.
Watch this amazing video which started my glazing journey back in December 2015
Using that video I made an attempt myself in this picture (her thigh pads)
Eli Sanchez
>order a bunch of fire dragons >they're resin >more fucking pins and crap on every single model than the kytan daemon engine of khorne i put together a few months ago >the back basically has to be manually sculpted out of all the fucking crap covering it >impossible to make the model look anywhere near as good as a neat, standard plastic model
What the fuck were they thinking
There's beams and stabilizers and all kinds of shit all over his little backpack tanks, not the type you just cut in two ends, but wholly molded fucking triangles that you have to manually cut out.
What the hell. Did I get a bad batch or is this real life?
Gavin Murphy
made some more progress on my Throgg. I still don't quite know what to do with the other arm, but I'm open to suggestions.
Carter Gomez
Death Spectres, Dark Hunters, White Consuls and one of my favorite, Doom Eagles. Litteraly every chapter is interesting while avoiding being Mary Sue.
Lincoln Sanchez
Look user, you can just pick from the table or roll.
Too bad for her, but better for us I guess.
Adrian Reed
ayy roll
Owen Smith
Help me, /wip/.
I have need of a number of cheap ballista and other siege weapons. Are there any scratchbuild tutorials, or good plastic kits that you could recommend?
David Long
Feel bad for Duncan, poor bastard always looks worn out. He may just suffer from depression or something, but I hope they don't work him too hard/make him take up the slack when they fire other painters
Isaiah Cox
In retrospect, choosing the hottest week of the year to knock off the rust from my paintbrushes was a bad idea. Got to unfuck those highlights before finishing his squad.
Looks like macragge blue with a wash over top. Can't say if it's black or blue thanks to his dramatic lighting setup.
the pure white highlights also mess with how you perceive the colour a bit. Look to the shoulders and feet, since those are the places with the least amount of blending and washing on them.
You can also make out where he's mixed in a bit of white into the blue (thigh, under the eyepiece, power pack, etc), though, again, the lighting setup makes it a pain to pinpoint the exact colours used.
Joseph Peterson
They fired her because no one was watching her vids, if Duncan's suffering its because of us
Ayden Ortiz
Oooh goody. Definitely love your style user.
Nathaniel Sanchez
Maybe he could be holding a villager like from the giant set?
Nathan Garcia
dumb ideas, while the Seraphon are all asexual I had this plan to try and make the Sarus stand out as Masculine while the skinks would be Feminine, in more of a transformers way then a sexy way
Julian Reyes
glad i have 60 metal ones
Michael Allen
don't they already stand out by being completely different kinds of lizard
Ian Martinez
Not sure how true that is, hers seem to be watched just as much as D-mans.
I never thought her videos were that bad, she was just... pretty average, table top quality.
She said in her twitch she was told explicitly they did not trust her with Alarielle.
Robert Long
I guess its just how I imagined their voices in my head and attempting to convey that
Blake Diaz
If you want to model tits on your skinks just say so, don't pretend its for artistic reasons ...
Christian Ortiz
could work, if I had one of the hands
Robert Gutierrez
but the female reptiles are generally the bigger more fearsome ones in nature, so by reptile standards the Saurus would be the feminine ones while the skinks would be masculine
Nicholas Watson
the eldar range has been riding on the quality of jes goodwin's sculpts for an impressively long time. That's conflicting with modern casting technologies, unfortunately
Michael Hernandez
A haypenny to whoever can figure out what I've drawn on this guys book he's writing
Luis Baker
its not artistic its autistic and I was trying not to resort to boobs, the biology nut in me wont allow it
Luis Carter
Is that fucking loss?
Nicholas Gutierrez
Holy fuck it is
Jackson Anderson
This is the first time I've wished for metal models.
They are good sculpts, very impressive that they've lasted this long.
