WIP - Painting/Converting/Sculpting General

So from the previous thread I already know what's a moldline, thanks you all for that, now the next part, what's paint?

is that using the axe from the limited model?

Guy who purchased the Nuln Spearman the other week just popped up on the Oldhammer Community page.

He's painted it up anyway. Good on him.

Good lord

Flock's a bit much, but not bad.

is there an app or a website that provides a painting scheme testing service?

background on this? i'm new to warhammer. why is it so overpriced? is it a scam?

there's a couple here, not sure if there's others

bolterandchainsword.com/fwp.php

bolterandchainsword.com/smpbeta.php

bolterandchainsword.com/csmp.php

bolterandchainsword.com/sisterp.php

I guess it's a prototype that was never produced.

Making a start on Mars themed terrain for when I eventually build a Schism of Mars board.

Anyone got any cool ideas for foundries or other Forgeworld buildings? I already have the GW ruined buildings but im keeping them for my other board. I want a more industrial looking board for Mars.

Yeah, never released despite being advertised so only a handful exist.

With a lot of these rare miniatures, the myth around them also boosts the price a bit I think.

Wait, is it just me or does that sergeant look like the one from the DoW3 first trailer facially?
Also, looks really nice.

the beard looks great don't let anyone convince you otherwise

Looks good but a bit weird that they wouldn't build mars structures out of mars materials.

What color should I paint the gemstones?
I am thinking of going with either green, blue or purple. Green would be the most obvious choice, but I fear that it would make that color too prominent on the figure, given that the canopies are already green.

I can see what you mean. Its just missing the grin.

Cheers man, I have no intention of changing it to be honest.

I did think that. It was originally for a city fight board (hence the grey) but felt the battlements suited grey more than Red. It can be some special concrete manufactured especially for bunkers or some shit.

Plasteel and Rockcrete come out of the STC the same colour everywhere user. Adaptation is tech-heresy.

Blue would be better if you fear that green would stand out too much

>Earth is brown so every building material should be brown too.

does anyone know whether it is actually citadel miniatures which produces the "citadel" paint? i thought they only produce the miniatures

is it sponge dab weathering or something more complex?

how do you do your marines yellow?

Sponge dab 50/50 mix of abaddon black/mournfang brown

They're done using washes only: base Zandri dust, recess wash seraphim sepia, liberal wash of casandora yellow, liberal glaze of Lamentors yellow.

Based the ogryn, figured I might as well do a shot of the full ultramar auxilia crew.

I'd like to do some heavy-las troopers for weapon variety and a commissar in proper carapace armour, but the next big project's either going to be the inquisitor's techno-barbarian retinue or bobby G himself.

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>dat color scheme
youtube.com/watch?v=IhnUgAaea4M

Really like your dudes, a coolarmy and a paintjob that looks great from up close and further away.

Greetings /wip/
I come seeking guidance with the use of washes. I have some vallejo black wash and an old ass pot of badab black but both make the fatigues on my troopers look like a shop rag after an oil change. Is there a wash that is more optimal for such a light grey?

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Thinned Nuln oil, or a wash of a slightly darker grey mixed with medium.

Thanks dudes. Not looking forward to the eventual vehicles I'm going to have to do for them. Infantry is my comfort zone.

might just need to wash conservatively then reapply the grey as needed

Painted the Demon of the Earth for the Conan boardgame by Monolith.

If you're who I think you are, they should look just as snazzy as your dreads.

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Those look more like filthy Union Jacks

those are some big ogryns

Will vallejo retarder medium work for making the dark grey wash? Also how do I make a wash? Sorry, I'm really new to all this.

Why do they wear the masks?

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Dreads are just big infantrymen, they don't count. Thankfully I can pretend vehicles don't exist for the next few months and just fiddle around with more infantry.

Nobody cared about the ogryn until they put on the masks.

striking look. good job.

You want a regular acrylic medium like GW's Lahmian or Vallejo Matte Medium, then thin your paint down with medium and water until it has the right consistency to flow into the recesses. The medium helps it stay actually like paint at that consistency instead of separating, as it would with just water.

Is it true that you can use Lahmian Medium as a brush on matte varnish? Anyone can confirm?

More of a satin but it does dull down gloss varnish and decal shine.

Could it be recommended as a brush on protectant coat?

No

Hey /wip/, I need some advice.

I'm going to sit down and paint my Visarch and I'm planning to go for a Red/Green contrast between the armour and blade/gems. See the Blood elf for the shade of red and green I'm planning to go for.

However, I'm kind of stuck on what colours to paint the cloak, belt/loincloth and fur. I'm considering some shade of white/offwhite for a similar contrast between the red armor and flesh that the blood elf has, but I'm not sure that'd work with cloth and it leaves me still guessing as to what I'd paint the fur. So, what'd you suggest?

And secondly, what greens would you suggest I use to get that kind of green colour the blades and gems have?

I think you should go with gold as your colour for the cloth and fur, I remember a lot of that around last time I went to silvermoon

>cool ideas for foundries
Here's some awesome industrial terrain ideas: s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/176679/1

Dark violet's always an option. I seem to remember that being an accent colour on blood elf shit.

Alternatively a darker red, if you want to take full inspiration from your right image. With an orange for the fur, mimicking the blood elf hair.

>that flier
holy shit it's so ugly why would you buy that

A recast of one, yeah.

>not liking the ugly charm of the Stormraven

Found the pleb

the stormtalon has ugly charm. The stormraven is just straight up hideous

it's the little thunderhawk that could

This is awesome. It'll give me some great ideas. Thanks user.

>Dark violet's always an option. I seem to remember that being an accent colour on blood elf shit.
I've seen several other dudes do that on Visarch's cloak when I've googled around for inspiration. I'm not entirely sure I like it, but that might be those guys execution. I'll definitely consider it, though I'd probably not go for the orange/gold-yellow fur you suggested if I go for a violet cloak.

>Alternatively a darker red, if you want to take full inspiration from your right image
Doesn't that run the risk of being too much red? I can see it working, since I'm going to go Mephiston Red->Nuln Oil->Evil Suns Scarlet edge highlight->Wild rider red extreme highlight for the armour. So, basecoating the cloak in Khorne red or a similar red shade and washing it with nuln oil might work.

>With an orange for the fur, mimicking the blood elf hair.
Might work. Though it might detract from the model since it covers a lot more area compared to the orange/gold hair of the blood elf. Though I'm considering something similar to Duncans Visarch fur video, but going to white rather than grey for the fur.

>Doesn't that run the risk of being too much red?
Nah. That's what the gems, sword, straps and tabard are there to prevent.

>it might detract from the model
Provided you keep your green real bright, that probably won't be a huge problem. But bone/off-white fur could also work.

how terrible are cans of propellant if I wanna hold off for a bit on buying a compressor?

>Nah. That's what the gems, sword, straps and tabard are there to prevent.
True enough. Would you suggest keeping the tabard off-wite like the studio model?

>But bone/off-white fur could also work.
I'm also considering of copying the fur this guy pulled for his Visarch.

>Would you suggest keeping the tabard off-wite like the studio model?
yes

>I'm also considering of copying the fur this guy pulled for his Visarch.
The blue tint might be overkill with the red/green contrast already present.

>The blue tint might be overkill with the red/green contrast already present.
Depends a bit on the colour of the cloak, doesn't it? With dark violet it could help make the transition less glaring, wouldn't it? Though I agree with its potential for overkill if I go for a red cloak.

>With dark violet it could help make the transition less glaring, wouldn't it?
Nah, if the rest of the mini was cool colours maybe, but we're talking bright reds here. You want warm colours to bridge the gap.

I've decided I want to convert a Genetor Mechanicum army, got a fairly good idea of what I want to have escorting my Whale-stormbird when I find the right model to convert from, but I'm stumped for a secondary colour. Anyone have any suggestions for a colour scheme for the Genetors? Was thinking bronze armour for the big monsters and Magi (Duncan's SoS tutorial plus Nikhilakh oxide, I think) what would look suitably mad science along with the creepy green syringes and pale flesh? Need a secondary colour for Secutarii and Magos robes and vehicle armour, since having metallic bronze plating with metallic dark metal trim is slightly metal overload as far as I can tell.

>You want warm colours to bridge the gap.
Hmmm, true. So a warm off-white or the gold blonde on the Blood elf for the fur would probably work best then.

What do you think of doing the same transition like on the Visarch I posted, but going from blonde/gold-orange to white for the fur?

That'd look pretty cool, I think.

Yeah, just now realised it'd be similar to the fur on the White Lions of Chrace, pic related. And since I chopped off the spike on the Visarchs helmet and replaced it with a top-knot from the White Lions kit it'd work pretty well I think.

Thanks for being a ball-plank, user.

would boar heads from the boars orcs ride fit on a crypt horror body?

glad I could help, boss

Best be converting up an Edelweiss and Shamrock

Working on these mofos

Just realized I ran out of green paint

user, when people say thin your paints they dont mean thin them that much.

That was a first hand. After that one, came another.

Yeah, I realized that too. I'm starting in this, let me get some practice

Oh hey it's Elric and Stormbringer.

depends where you want to go with the grey, drakenhof nightshade would be pretty good for a blue shade. Thin it down with soem water though.

One idea I had for a forge board was to cross an entire board with a thick wall that's clearly been hit by bombardment - possibly capped at each end by a tall 'framing' piece that's very tall and implied to continue upwards, representing where the building is intact - and have one side be the inside of a forge, with the idea that the battle is over the breach in the wall - the defenders are either securing it or are about to spill from the factory like a disturbed nest of ants, while the attackers are trying to storm the breach.

Any defences should be extremely makeshift, and depending on how much of the board you want to be martian soil it might even be a race for the breach - one side running across the factory floor (or possibly hanging back in a load of machinery and shooting whoever gets to the breach), one side trying to scramble up and enter the factory.

Other battlefield-dividing features are also good: rivers of molten metal with bridges, big vats, pipelines, raised assembly lines - stuff that can be hidden behind, fought over, used for tactical advantage.

Waste heaps might be useful, just a big pile of dirt or scraps, and a very re-usable terrain piece. If you want something involved consider an archaeological site or a large admech vehicle

Large machines like generators, fuel tanks, pumps, cranes (good for adding height) and simple storage units are good for breaking up the battlefield - too many wars are fought on parking lots and croquet lawns

Thats actually a fantastic idea user, i may pinch the wall idea for my Mars board.

A very good point too, i really want my boards to be interesting and a joy to play on instead of the usual kellogs box buildings and pringles tin towers.

What colors do you guys use on your bases? I always use mournfang dry rushed with bone but these new guys are doing are mostly mournfang so I want a different basing scheme for them.

Anyone? I kind of suck at this colour theory stuff.

That sounds really damn cool. When I had a decent force done I was going to build them a "Home base", since they're an Explorator Fleet turned colonists who decided to settle in an asteroid belt. May steal a good few of those ideas, although they're not quite fuckheug enough for a wall that big.

>want to paint
>pull everything out, inspect minis
>realize underside of minis need primer
>too cold and wet to for spray primer
>check weather
>next two weeks supposed to be almost same weather as today

So I guess I should get some paint on primer. Any tips about what to get or avoid? Horror stories/experiences with it? Or should I just make a spray booth in my basement?

I used windex to thin the wash and it worked pretty decently. Now I just have to work on highlighting the raised edges on the pants without it looking like dogshit

Is this a proper way to Stormsurge?

Obviously still WIP. And the photo is shit, but should get the job done.

I like, where can I get that limited model?

No one looks underneath. You'll be fine

>that pose
Is it trying to tame raptors?

Jokes aside looks fine, like the arms

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>those colors