WIP WORK IN PROGRESS /WIPG/

Your base is a little sparse

That's a good table top quality model

If you know what models you're gonna buy to kick things off then you should know whether you'll need to magnetise or not. I would advise magnets on your multi-weapon models as we don't yet know 100% what 8th ed will mean in terms of shooty vs CC.

Looks like a decent brush set to me, though going forward you'll need to probably treble your number of brushes, adding a large drybrush, a brush between standard and fine detail for small areas, a super-fine brush for edge highlights etc, a large brush for washing.

Back to magnetising and weapon swaps you'll probably find a pin vice drill helpful also

Pro-painted.

>Tyranids are probably one of the easiest armies to paint to tabletop standard.

Depends on how you feel about mold lines. I've heard the little bugs are pretty bad in this regard, having to scrape in between all those overlapping layers of carapace!

You're gonna get far kid. Looking forward to your daily dank tips.

I wanted to something halfway in between clean painting, and grubby Blanche artwork style.

I think I kind of got the worst of both styles.

anyway what do you guys think? They're probably 90% done,

Thanks for the advice m8

Reposting my not quite finished Minotaurs Contemptor Dreadnought from the previous thread. Now in a better angle, and not full frontal.
Any thoughts?

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Are you painting the knee pads and codpiece red, because the lower body is pretty boring?

Also the bronze needs more wash in all crevices.

w-what happened?

I just bought dungeon saga.
Considering leaving the miniatures unpainted, considering HOW fucking tiny they are.

Has anyone here painted miniatures THAT small?

Like those fuckers put the mini in miniature.

One coat of primer and you clogged up 90% of detail is my fear.

I'm waiting for the etched brass from forgeworld, hoping the small chapter symbols will fit on the knee. If not, dunno. I still have to paint the skulls and highlight the chains and add company markings and all that, so I might just put those onto the knee.
I've used Agrax Gloss for shading, should I try the regular one instead? Might give a better finish, shadowed areas don't really shine anyway.

Do you even 8mm?

yes theres no way that anyone could paint a model that small, in fact even priming such a tiny model would destroy it.

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They're supposed to be 28-32mm scale.

Mate what, that's just a normal size 28mm Dwarf. Not painted before?

Is it actually possible to get a hold of the old chaos raptor jump packs anymore ??

I really love the style, and want to use the jump pack for some conversions, but i've only been able to find Kromlech's version.

Agrax matte into deep recesses I reckon,

People here paint 8mm miniatures just fine so why would painting a 28-32mm miniature be any different?

20 years ago, my hero quest miniatures.
They seemed bigger to me back then.

>8mm
HA! you are like a little baby.
Watch this

My thumb is bigger than the entire miniature.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around how I am to approach this

THIN YOUR PAINTS

Paint
Highlight
Wash
Re-highlight the sharp points
Switch between blocks of guys and heroes/characters to keep things interesting

>3mm

Wew lad. Cool it with your oversized action figures.

Hey,

little update from my first guardsman from last thread.
the combat weapon is now painted and all that's missing now are the highlights on the armor (still dont have the right colour).

i watered the paint on the weapon like some user from last thread recommended and i think it worked pretty well.

also do you guys have any ideas what to do with the base ? i'm kinda non-creativ when it comes to base modeling.

Imagine "sculpting" these for a living?

That like 2000:1? Not sure what that is in millimetres

2mm.

Easy mode:
>glue sand onto base
>basecoat black/dark brown
>drybrush browns/greys/anything
Make sure it's fine, you don't want anything coarse.
Another super easy one is to just buy some static grass. Put super glue onto his base dunk the base in the static grass and blow off the extras and blam!
Pic related is just sand, it's nothing fancy.

Nice, I'm stealing this idea

the smallest scale models I have are 1.5mm, but those are large ships / aircraft and robots.
No single infantry models though.

How big is your backlog /wip/?

Ive got a few characters, vind, rhino, assault squad, sternguard, cataphractiis, and some bolter marines. Looking to get another BaC to get some more bodies for heavy/special weapons and a shooty termy squad.

Not pictured are about 50 ork boyz, trukks, deffcopters, and various characters

>How big is your backlog /wip/?
ahahahahaa
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
kill me

I recently had to move all my backlog stuff out of the guest room. For this purpose, we bought eight stackable Ikea boxes, which were filled exclusively with my backlog. It now resides in my room as the single most space-consuming feature. I call it the Tower of Shame.

My backlog is probably best described as taking up a modest storage unit at this point.

Getting there. Need more time.

I like them, the colour scheme is great, particularly the guys without cloaks.

5 tartaros termis
5 converted csm termis
50 marines from BaC and BoPI have no fucking clue what I'm going to do with them
10 Nurgle bikers
1 wyvern
1 juggerlord
1 kytan daemon engine
1 chaos termi lord conversion
1 cataphractii apothecary
1 Khrone daemon prince

Well at least it's not as bad as it used to be and it's summer break again. My goal is all but the vanilla marines unless 8th makes me need more infantry and I get into HH using marine heavy lists instead of termis

>Another super easy one is to just buy some static grass

do you mean this stuff ? found a bag of it in my decades old box with the fantasy models.
maybe i'll try the brown-brushed sand thing and than place a few clusters of the "grass" on it.

Technically Crons are the easiest since you can literally spray silver primer on them, dip em in a shade and call it done.

i think these look great. the colors work well and the levels are nice. tabletop quality++

30 marines
1 drop pod
1 rhino waiting to be finished
1 imperial knight
1 squad of catapchractii terminators
the Dark Vengeance box
1 Chaos Desolator squad (10 marines + Rhino)
1 juggerlord
1 harlequin troupe
36 necron warriors
1 ghost ark
1 cryptek
10 lychguards
1 squad of immortals somewhere
1 command barge
1 tomb stalker
Slambo
Hoping to win the Titan forgeworld gives away. I hope for the best, but expect nothing. Even the 25 pound voucher would be nice.

>Mark III Marines
See pic

>one box of raptors need paint
>one SC CSM box not even assembled minus the helbrute who still needs paint
>about 8 more regular CSM who need to be painted past the base coat
>tfw I just ordered a box of bikers and are expecting them any day now
I promised I wasn't gonna buy any more dudes til I had these finished but when I hit up the LGS for paints they told me they do a 20% discount for any online orders through them and next thing you know I ordered the fucking bikers.

>feel like modeling / painting
>Remember I'll have to spend 5 hours shaving mold lines
>Go back to what I was doing before

I really love painting but anytime I think of removing mold lines I instantly lose all motivation.

Anyone else have this issue?

>1 tomb stalker
by that I meant Triarch Stalker, actually. Tomb Stalker would be nice though.

STOP BUYING MORE STUFF AND PAINT WHAT YOU'VE GOT GOOD LORD

I'm more into the building part. I could go and build a squad completely within an hour, no moldlines or anything left. But then I remember that I should leave some parts off for easier painting. Then I remember I have to undercoat them and wait quite some time for the undercoat to dry. Base colours are okay, because I can just take my biggest brush and paint the whole squad in a fast way. But having to wait for a wash to dry or remembering to do a ton of highlights kills my mood quite quickly. Thus, a backlog and a lot of half-finished miniatures remain.

I still have a shit ton of models to build

And my two test Deldar with some basing done. The wych is magnetized, hence the unpainted arms, but I should probably put something else on the base.

Mother fucker

A 75 point trollblood army, minus a single Troll Axer and Dire Troll Mauler. Plus a few boxes of cleric/mage PCs for rpgs

So what do you guys do with all your spare bits and sprues?

Not seen here is another box of wyches, 20 Hellions, and a Succubus. Of this, one box of which is mostly assembled and primed, and most of one SC! Box is assembled.

Keep everything on the sprues, in case I might need it someday. I probably won't, but still.

those where amazing, new ones are shit. Literally a pair of fucking barrels.

I so agree.
They are made of pure sex.

Plz tell me you know where to get them. I've been scouring the internet for hours now

China. Z and Alpharius have them for $1/each

They're MKV assault packs, which I happen to like.

Never considered Alpharius and i've looked over Z so many times and never noticed them.

You're a fucking godsend user, i could kiss you right now.

Could you save me another hour of research and tell me what alpahrius is like ? model quality, delivery time etc.

>mfw going back into my 40k collection of olde and trying to strip this shit and reattach parts and give updated loadouts

mother of god this is taking literally longer than painting the entire army, I'm considering just ebaying the shit as a lot of bits and buying new models, what in a fuck

Honestly, I've never ordered from Alpharius, but I've only heard good things from what reviews I've read on yoyhammer. He was honestly going to be my next order.

>5MB

>2MB

>majority of picture in both is irrelevant

I'm the newbie necron guys from a couple of threads ago.
You were so kind in praising and commenting that I decided to keep up with my promise and post update of the 2nd minia (aaaaaand I need advise).

Messed up pretty badly the first bayonet (wanted to try NMM but with the whole minia in metal paint it just felt wrong), had to prime one from another rifle, cut it and glue it (and done a shitty job at it).

Also, how the fuck do you pals edge highlights on round area, jesus christ I actually had to buy a better brush just to reach this shitty result.

Really happy about the pipes (I've no yellow so just playing with the white, I'll go and buy one in the next few days).

Can you guys help me with blades in general? I indeed experimented upon it but my feathering attempt with metallic paint was awful

Washes and all that stuff doesn't work with figures that small. You want the details, as few as there are, to pop out. Look up Kevin Dallimore, expand your mind beyond your tired memes.

Fair enough, thanks anyway you lovely user.

I need some advice, this is not a painting question.
I'm making some terrain items for my DnD game, not dungeon tiles but objects I can put on the grid to help make the strategic placement easier to visualize and help facilitate more varied combat situations.
So far I made a corner wall that is 3x3 spaces, a wall 3 spaces long, a well (something can be pushed into it or jump out from it) and a door/portal.
What other elements can I make to increase the number of arrangements I can get?
I thought of making few that would signify single or double untraversable spaces and elevated vantage points like a boulder that could be climbed for ambush or whatever.

is it ok to use acrylic wash over an oil painted model?

Love the apperance of your mini there, looking forward to see it completed!

>not naming it hoppy merchant

Fucking pleb.

Any tips for converting eldar guardians into dire avengers without bits?

Any time. We'll be raptor buddies soon I think.

way too muted. they need highlights. basing looks pretty OK

I don't see what you're trying to do, it looks like his flesh is rusty or right next to a fire. Yeah, it looks like he's got OSL on the lower third of his body. The blue looks interesting. Maybe you should try to freehand veins on it (if you can)

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Getting my boys done

Salamanders or Aurora chapter?

What do you think, user?

>fire everywhere
>fucking salamander logo on the shoulders and flag
duh gee boss I dunno

:^)

>[screams externally]

They are actually highlighted, but it's not showing up on my. Shitty camera. The onky. Thing that isn't is the leather because I honestly don't know how to highlight Incubi Darkness.

Raven Guard.

Guess who just got an ebay shipment of 16 more berserkers just in time for 8th edition...

Damn. For a new painter this looks really good

Also got my forge world Commander Ainea

Last 7th ed tournament coming up, going out in style with models I put off painting for 3 years. Think I can take best painted? Need to finish off bases.

Does anyone have the Tyranid painting guide? I can't find it in the OP link

Picked up the start collecting box for guard. This is my first guardsmen done, will post the sergeant in foreground if you guys want. R8 pls

On an unrelated note, what should the fluff for my guys be? I was thinking space pirates, and I would take bits from my friend who plays empire and make them suitably piratey, but I could not think of good colours. I really liked the scheme on my current guys but I also feel like they look too much like plain cadians, so I scrapped the pirate idea. I was thinking of making them a mercenary company to kind of meet half way. Perhaps green fatigues and a different colour for the flak armour? I dont know guys, help me out.

JUST

this isnt even my entire backlog. AND i have 40 more dudes on the way being shipped

Someone help me

And teach me how to thin paints