Asked a few questions about making barbed wire lately and I'm back with another. What's a good wire gauge for it?
Camden Parker
Update on my Skaven Gutter Runner. Happy with how it has turned out, though I haven't washed it in Nuln oil as was suggested, cause frankly I'm scared of fucking it up. This is probably the best model I've painted to date, so just trying to build up the nerve to throw a wash on it.
Ian Howard
Just primed a battlesuit wew
Jack Rivera
Other side view.
Alexander Clark
Better view of cape pattern. Looks better from a distance.
Aaron Butler
Try backing off with the camera a bit to increase your depth of field. Then crop to compensate.
Cameron Murphy
I am pretty happy about how this guy turned out.
Jose Evans
I'll give that a go. Not a picture-taking guy by trade.
Cameron Fisher
That's not going to increase, depth of field, that's determined by the length of the lens.
Kayden Hughes
And he manages to fit pretty well with the wraithknight's color scheme as well.
Charles Barnes
>Don't talk to me or my guardian ever again.
Asher Hall
not sure how much a difference it made, but here you go.
Josiah Butler
Cape needs some cleanup on the edges; red is bleeding through. I like the pattern, as well.
Joshua Brooks
Yeah I noticed that after taking the picture. Will fix it up. I think I need a lamp for my painting station.
Xavier Sanders
Progress on the Stirland Greatsword, I don't think I'll make another Heraldry banner as it's way too difficult. The next one will probably be a skeleton with Victory or Death on it
Oliver Sullivan
and I forgot the picture like a moron
Logan Sanders
Anyone?
Thomas Johnson
My blood bowl team is almost done. Black is finished, just needs the golds, oranges, and bone.
Angel Thomas
Totally submitted the image. Not sure what happened.
Chase Perez
Nice paint job.
Blood Bowl is cancer though.
Jeremiah Perry
Hey WIP! I'm wanting to build a more or less (less probably) fluffy Dark Mechanicum army using the Legiold Cybernetica and going with a necron-esque vibe. I'm basing the necron part off the pic of Scoria where if you look closely you can see a tiny necron scarab perched on him.
Anyway, I'm torn between using a 40k Dominus model and building anew Abeyant for him out of a cantopik bits OR using Cawl and converting the legs with, you guessed it, more necron legs.
Thoughts? I'm literally split 50/50 on which way to go with him. My thallax and Castellax are pretty much stock but I used destroyer gauss Cannons for the thallax lightning guns and another necron gun I can't recall at the moment for Darkstar Cannons. I can try to take pics of my WIP later...
William Fisher
How do I get rid of greenstuff? I bought some used chimeras, but one of them has quite some of it. Do I just accept and move on?
Eli Nguyen
usually just scrape/sand it off
Kevin Green
...
Owen Brown
>Golden Suns Stormhost >sun is silver, moon is gold So close, Duncan.
Easton Baker
to make home made mourn mountain snow you'll need Stirland Battlemire Celestra grey Ulthuan grey
Eli Hernandez
Getting around to painting my triumvirate, starting with mister magoo. Wip on the 1st sub assembly.
Daniel Harris
Those mold lines on the mechadendrites thou
Otherwise it's coming up good so far
Gavin Butler
So, totally-not-Iron-Warriors posting again. Unfortunately don't have any cropped to size images of the final product on hand, but I do have a previous progress picture (the top of the backpack was later made gold). I'm still trying to figure out what to do for a normal scheme to accompany this veterans scheme. Maybe silver kneepads and shoulder trim, keeping the rivets gold, but would that be too much silver?
Hunter Baker
truly beautiful did you saw the Duncan video about it?
Grayson Hernandez
I bought this. It's perfect, cheap and I have enough for a lifetime.
Jonathan Butler
Woops.
Liam Long
ayy frenchbro
Grayson Nguyen
Not the poster but where? I don't see any.
Brody Wood
This is why I post in wip. There's always an autist or two that catch all the mild lines I miss. I love you guys.
Colton Harris
pic related, less so on the tail one desu
To be fair, I use a 4k monitor and your image is well over 12"... although I have a super power for spotting mold lines regardless so I'm told. It's a curse, not a gift.
Anthony Richardson
Jesus fuck. Would have never noticed it. Even with you pointing it out I barely see it on my screen.
Ayden Bennett
I'm actually proud of me, I did that on my phone.
Matthew Kelly
>big gold circle >small silver circle >flames clearly coming off the bigger, gold circle The moon is eclipsing the sun you mong
Elijah Hill
kys
Adam Green
sports ball enthusiast identified.
Jose James
Mire golem coming along slowly. Should I just leave the main... body? the same green? Kinda confused how to paint something like this.
Angel Williams
>caws in eldarish
Gavin Kelly
Also finished the skysplinter box. Had my first game with them yesterday. They killed half a squad of Veterans, and did 3 wounds to Celestine killing her bodyguards before she farted on them and them and blowing them the fuck up
Jeremiah Nguyen
My Blood Bowl Ogre conversion. Nearing the finish line.
Aiden James
I tried doing a mask on my renegade guard. I regret it.
Aaron Brown
I like it. It has a lovecraftian appeal.
Leo Peterson
Guess it fits a force of Nurgle guardsmen, right?
Landon King
No skater skull/10 + splinter shells.
But memes aside it is tabletop ready. I would be happy if half the army's at my flgs would look that good. It's always nice to have a table of fully painted miniatures
Isaiah Lee
Stick some guitar wire from the mouth to some sort of container mounted on the back and you're good to go.
Bentley Clark
The guys at my store always take pictures of my models on the table, its a pretty good feeling. Honestly wondering how would i take it further.
Matthew Diaz
Anyone know which kits have the Blood Angels' company transfers? I'm building the 4th company and I'd rather not freehand than many blood drops and knee markings.
Jack Wilson
Did dakka delete the thread on stripping models?
Parker Reed
Why not? That seems like the perfect opportunity boost your freehand skills.
Adrian Edwards
>It's always nice to have a table of fully painted miniatures
Something like this, user?
Lincoln Reyes
Most stripping methods will melt it off.
Elijah Scott
These are the first four minis I've ever painted. Be gentle /wip/.
I think they turned out okay, and I'd feel good about putting them on the tabletop. My edge highlighting is sloppy, and I'm not sure how to improve it other than practice. I've got the patented "nice fine tip on yer brush" but my hands just don't seem steady enough to paint some of the lines.
The horns on the one guy are black just because there's no way I can get to some of the surfaces on them now that I've assembled him. Lesson learned with that particular head: paint it before assembly.
I don't have a drill for the gun barrels yet, but that's another thing that stands out to me. The flat gun fronts don't look great.
Anyway, I'm sure I'm doing lots of little things wrong. I welcome advice and critique.
Cooper Jones
Just do a headshape and smooth that, let it sit for 15 minutes and find something round in the right diameter you can press into the GS(back of a pencil, straw whatever works as stamp).
Cooper King
How'd you make sure the feet would stand on the same plane?
Jeremiah Wood
I can freehand most of it, the problem is it takes way too much damn time.
Henry Turner
Lots of grey in there
Jackson Rogers
First and foremost, well done on painting your first 4 models.
You're aware of your mistakes, that's good, if you keep them in mind, you'll progress MUCH faster.
As you said, your highlights are a bit sloppy, don't worry they often are at the beginning. Have you tried angling your brush to a 45 degree to catch the edge of the model with the side of your brush? That's how your supposed to do edge highlighting, which is the main mode of highlights for SM.
It might sound silly, but thin your paints a bit more. I'll use the image of milk consistency, your paint shoudl be like milk. What helped me visualise the right consistency was a dude using a test tube with water and another with milk in it. Milk would go down the end of the tube like water, but slower, and still leave a riny trace after itself. That's how your paint should behave on your palette. I know it's tempting to try and cover everything as fast as you can but taking your time is essential.
Cont.
David Green
Most of that is actually painted grey, though there are a couple of FW pieces that hadn't been painted yet.
Alexander Hill
Cont.
Don't overload your brush either. Even with proprerly thinned paints, if you have too much paint on your brush it will fuck it up. Remember, most of the time, only the tip of the brush should have paint on it. To make sure your paint isn't too watery on your brush, use a tip an user said a couple threads back: very lightly make your brush horizontally touch your tissue, parallel to it, let the moisture be absorbed by it. Flip your brush and do it on the other side of it, again, very lightly, and you should be good. If you followed everything you should have a brush with enough paint with the right consistency. It is not a sin to go back to your pallette for more paint when you're done applying your first load, so no need to overload.
Finally, brush control. It's there, vut you can obviously make progress on that. Remember to brace your wrists down on the table and stick your hands together to have a steady hand. You'll learn how to control your brush with time. I weep when I see the difference between the 1st guy of my 1st squad of IW and the last one of the same squad, so don't worry it comes fast if you concentrate, brace your hands and take your time. In due time, you'll manage to do the eyes, that you have left at the basecoat stage for now.
So keep at it, and keep your mistakes in mind to avoid reproducing them.
Henry Powell
Thanks friendo, this is all good advice. By your description it sounds like my paints could definitely be thinner than I've been making them.
The idea of doing more details inside the eyes sounds crazy to me right now. Just getting them filled nicely was very difficult. I'm sure it'll seem more feasible as I keep going.
Daniel Wood
Hey, I was there as well. As a dude who paints a lot of gray dudes, I can attest to that. More players here have stuff painted than unpainted.
I'm not sure if I'm missing anything or if I'm getting brushes not suitable for mini painting.
Andrew Rodriguez
Looks fine to me mate. It can be hit and miss with a lot of brushes, also depends on your painting style, as well as how harsh you are in terms of cleaning and actually painting.
I recently bought a set that is identical to the third link you posted, although the brand is different the brushes are the exact same, so far they have been great.
Just right for picking out detail as well as the variety to allow application to the larger areas on the miniature.
Best of luck anyway mate.
Samuel Thompson
If those are Night Lords don't forget to ruin your models with sloppy freehand lightning all over. It's good practice.
Jayden Garcia
Based Cockcrafter has spoken.
Nathaniel Cox
thanks, I ordered them and one of the fine detail 8packs... hopefully it's enough to paint the minis I got. Also got alot of stuff from Aliexpress. Trying to get my hobby supplies as cheap as possible, and I'll post what is good and what isn't so future people just getting into the hobby can know some inexpensive options
Juan King
Mate, if you're gonna post at least post a new image, I've seen this fucking picture for at least the last 3 threads
Adam Phillips
I recall a step by step tutorial from many years past about a white space marine helmet. It had to do with shading it with a wash, source lighting on the eyes, and small bits of chipped paint effect. But for the life of me I cannot remember where it is.
Can anyone help me out?
Kayden Ross
Details look a bit clogged, did you spray basecoat it? I've noticed that even when i'm the most careful i always manage to clog details with spray...
Carson Nelson
To user who posted about Blue stuff and Lego trick. Thanks a lot man! Sadly I've managed to get to Veeky Forums only by now and could not reply to you in previous thread.
You are the man)
Luis Bailey
Any swedes here that know how to strip paint from plastic minis? Do i use t-röd or grönsåpa and scrub it with a tandborste?
Caleb Thomas
No problem user. Glad it was helpful. Well wip here's my progress on that seraphim. Just got the base coat on. What do you all think? Any commentary ot advice.
Robert Hernandez
T-Röd works well, although it's not a bad idea to give them a windex/ajax bath afterwards to get the rest of the paint off.
Landon Lee
...and it's upside down. This is what I get for phone posting.
Mason Harris
saved
Parker Collins
Hey guys, why do we never talk about Gunpla in these threads? Just looked into it and it seems kinda cool, I even found a little hobby blog that seems to do a good job of explaining it. Is it because you don't have to paint them?
Aaron Johnson
People who have done custom casting
How difficult would this be to cast properly?
Connor Moore
You'd have to be careful about where the seam on the mold went, but I think that would be doable with a little effort. Might have one or two failed molds before it works out right though.
Luke Sanchez
depends what molding material you're gonna use, with rtv it might be pretty easy i think.
Asher Flores
I've got all this stuff and more to prime. What's the easiest way to go about doing it? Doing all at once? One at a time?
Aaron Ward
I did say I didn't have a new photo on hand. I've been trying to get feedback for a couple threads now. That one's done and been done, the finished image is what I posted last time. Don't have everything when I'm away from my PC, camera, and models. Simple "yeah, that's a good idea" or "no, do x instead" is enough.
Cooper Perez
Perfect, thanks alot!
Evan James
blutack and a steady hand, propping the legs in position on the feet while superglue dried
Nathaniel Howard
What is best beginner airbrush? Is it hard to start using one?
I recently bought some flames of war shit to build for fun
So this isn't really a WIP, even though it is. Sat down tonight, painting with my son, trying to make him catch some interest in this hobby. He´s only 4 years old, but already finds it fun and "different" in terms of painting.
Anyways, this is a picture of a 5 minute dry-brush job I did at the time. Its by far the best things I have painted, but it brought me back somehow. See, when I started this hobby, it was me and two friends. Our parents where to busy being "adults", doing "grown up stuff" (aka; smoking, drinking coffee and complaining to other adults the hardship of being a grown up....), and no one was there to coach us in terms of community or such. See you have to remember this was was way before the age of the internet! Now days, you can get a tutorial at the click of a button. You can order stuff on a whim! Just about anything is possible now days it seems, you don't even have to come up with army-lists of your own for Christ sake!
So when viewing this model, this 5 minutes of painting model, I remembered my first miniature. And let me tell you, it looked like shit! Like a turd, left in the sun to dry, that was my first miniature a good 17+ years back. And had I the slightest of help, producing anything like picture related, like a full army, it would have made anything (at the time) that I had painted, look even more crap! Hell, it would have been viewed as the best painted army in the area when finished, by a long shot! And still... its just a 5 minute dry-brush.
Brandon Gomez
sigh....
"its FAR FROM the best thing I have painted...."
Kind of mess up the message don't you think?!?
Ayden Turner
Haha, and I had just started a "first steps" post - either way that was heartwarming to read. :)
Justin Peterson
if you dont like an excuse to eat chips and dip washed down with beer for 3 hours I dont know what to say
Looks decent enough, but without having used one I can't really say.
This is actually the kit I have, that I use with my Iwata Neo. Some notes from personal experience:
- First time I tried to use the glass jar, the plastic lid broke - The metal cup is nearly impossible to use. It doesn't stay attached well, and it's at a weird angle. You'll likely end up dumping paint out of it while trying to use it. - The compressor does NOT come with a pressure regulator. It sprays at 58 psi, and ONLY at 58 psi, which is WAAAYYY too much for painting minis. That said, I was able to find a pressure regulator on Amazon for pretty cheap. -Otherwise (using the Neo), the system works great!