WIP - Work In Progress General

painted this recently

Pop and contrast is extremely underrated at tabletop distances. You're going to want contrast.

That head is really mesmerizing

I'm not sure what it is, but I like it.

Looks like you got some shiny, so it looks wet on the left hand. What if you did that on the right shoulder where it's a gouge and maybe the symbol on the chest?

Just a thought, I really like the shiny effect.

I have a quick question, does the fur match on both sides of this? I couldn't exactly remember the mix i used on the cape side and the front came out way too red at first, note to self paint both sides of something at the same time.

Painboy

File that shit off, get a clean surface with your xacto knife before you glue any more.

Back looks slightly more saturated still, could be the photo though. Modding the Visarch or going to have it stand in for something else?

Sculpting a breastplate and skull helmet for a Guard Character. Definitely the heaviest modding I've done, not 100% sure on what next.

I'm slowly modding him into an Archon, i'm not sure if i'm going to stick the trophy racks he comes with on him or if i'm going to fill the holes with green stuffed fur. The highlights on the back look better in person but I was mostly worried about the front coming out too red

That greenstuff looks like crazy green paint blending

Never based before so I made a test base with sand painted over black and then dry brushed with a light grey. I have rocks that I'll add when I start basing my finished dudes, but is there anything else I should work on?

Neat! What to do with the back sounds like a place to have fun with modding him.

Chaos Dwarf user here, painting at work was the best decision yet. Now I've got the remaining models having their base coat and shade on it. All there is to do is clean up the shades, and then highlighting all of em. I'm in the home stretch finally.

Got my Orruk Weirdnob box in today, excited to start modifying them to look like World of Warcraft Blackrock orcs, but it'll take a while to start that, I think. Gotta find my plasticard and find some appropriate bits to make them blackrock foundry-y.
Here's a WIP of a gift I'm giving to a friend.

The highlights on the front are more noticable, but it may be the photo.

Still working on sculpting rough riders. Made some more touch ups and repairs. Fixed the tube arm and fur on most guys, some sleeves are still a bit off and needs trimming.
Need more critique pls

>painting at work
Where the hell do you work that you can just plop down and paint? I'd surely get fired for it whenever my boss returns from his seemingly endless vacation or my coworkers start getting light-headed from fumes

On my lunch break in the break room. I've got an hour to kill so I thought I might as well do somethin!

Finally, a new thread is up.

I'm going to dump some general advice/help images to keep the fire burning.

Looks fine if you're going for asphalt or volcanic ash kinda look. Try mixing different sizes of gravel/sand to give it a more natural look.

You say you have rocks to add, generally I would glue those down first before using PVA and gravel so the rocks look like they're sitting in the ground rather than on top of it. I get the impression that you'd just be sticking on unpainted rocks as well, which would stick out against the painted part of the base.

Last, I recommend priming your base like you would a model. It'll seal the sand and gravel a little more so it doesn't flake off while painting and you'll get a consistent base color. Oh, and obviously, fill in or cover the slot in the base.

ravioli ravioli use a wash to bring out recessed detailiolis

This one is actually something I made from the GW vehicle painting book. I did it with my Chimera, and so long as you use Multiple Thin Coats, it's pretty easy to achieve.

What paints (Citadel) go with what and bullshit

Specialty paints included

Gems and shit are easy as fuck, and you don't need those "Gemstone" glaze paints GW sells. This thing is taken from the 5th ed. Eldar codex.

I should probably grab the Ork 5th ed codex, because it has something similar, about checker patterns, since everyone moans about how "hard" they are to make.

Something for Nurgle/Chaos players or Tyranids, I guess. Or, turn your Flayed One into a regular Buffalo Bill!

Alright, that's all I'm posting for now. This one is for any of you Imperium fags that want to make nice lettering for your banners, ribbon things, or whatever the hell you decide to write on.

That's amazing

Alright thanks. Like I said in the post this was just a test so I won't be using this base with a model it's just a spare I had lying around. But your advice is very helpful.

has anyone tried sponging on washes to vehicles? what kind of effect do you think it would have?

test base for my mud-oil fields of Armaghast. do you think the plants are too much?

How'd you do the oil?

Looks good to me

Personally, yes, I think the plants make it too busy but if you either made them smaller or had less of them I think they wouldn't be problematic.

Yeah I remember when some user just posted it up like "holy heck look at this shit" and everyone was enthralled. Figured people would be really interested these days, what with Dark Imperium having Death Guard and presumably more people playing Nurgle now.

i left indents in the mud paint, and when it dried, i put in a few drops of nuln oil, and then straight over it a few drops of secretweapon water effect. then layered the water effect again when it dried. heres one before i did the water.
thanks, and yeah i was just trying to see which of the plants i liked more. it's going to mostly be for stuff like infantry. i might just do the bushes for the heavy weapons teams. maybe rocks, instead.

I'm looking for very small drone models that look like they're just large enough to mount a stormbolter on. (and similar specialist-size weapons)

Both crawling and hovering drones are acceptable.

Ideally, something like the jetpacks in and , but smaller scaled.

Just guessing from how sponges work, I'd guess you'd just get a lot of tiny splotches all over the place. Not sure why you'd want to do it.

It kind of looks like cheese from a pizza in that picture. Maybe I'll make a legion of pepperoni and cheese plague marines

Or better yet, arm them with the most toxic and vile topping known to mankind

Anchovies

i was thinking if i did that and then did a thin layer over the top i might achieve a kind of mottled dirty look that appeared more natural than if i tried to do it with brushwork

I asked in the last thread and got jack-shit in the way of responses, so I'll ask again in a slightly different way.

Does anyone have experience sculpting/modeling female features? I'd like to get some advice, since I'm going to start on daemonettes soon enough and I want to spruce them up, but the only videos I can find are of professional sculptors that are either dead silent or drone on about inane bullshit.

Any advice, even "It's way easier than you may at first think" is welcome!

I'd say try it on some plasticard if you have any, or on some sort of blank slab of plastic you don't give much of a shit about. It could look absolutely hideous and just dull up your details by adding a lot of visual noise, and just looks like splotches.

But, again, I've never done it, I just have to go by guess work. I'm not going to stop you if you want to try, I'd just advise caution.

Thoughts on new death guard contemptor? Basing to be decided.

Is there a difference between using Citadel paint from a pot rather than a spray can (Chaos Black/Leadbelcher for example).

I know you can control the brush/pot much better, but is there an actual difference in quality or will the results turn out relatively the same?

Man the 30k DG stuff looks terrible in 40k colors. Is it just being so used to seeing them in 30k colors and vice versa? It's not like I dislike either, both 30k and 40k DG look good when done normally.

I bet the 40k nurgle stuff would look worse in pre-heresy colors too.

The spray can has aerosol and solvents in it. Also I heard Retributor Gold does not match the pot version. Other than that, there's not much difference. It's like any other pot vs. spray. If you don't fuck up either one they will result in the same finish. You can fuck up pot painting by not thinning your paint just as much as you can fuck up spraying by spraying too long, too close, too far, or in too humid of a climate.

Don't drybrush it. It doesn't look "weathered" or "Nurgley" it just looks bad.

Looks more like camo unless you really sit and stare at it.

Only advice I can really give is to keep the basics of anatomy in mind, like women have their eyes wider apart on average, the jaw is pointy rather than square etc.

Also if I were to sculpt a female face I'd try to keep her facial features as smooth as possible.
Like with a drawing, adding too many lines make a female face look old or unattractive.

Take a look at the heads from Hasslefree and Statuesque miniatures.
You'll notice that the bridge of the nose and the cheekbones are far less pronounced than on their male counterparts and the shapes flow softly into each other.

Can't say 'it's easier than you may think', though.
Sculpting faces at that scale isn't easy and it's even harder to do if you are going for a likeness, an expression or beauty (which i think the female form is usually considered to be the standard of)
May just be me, but I find that I'm in general I'm much more tolerant of quirks in male anatomy and faces.
If something looks off on a female body/face it sticks out much more.

Though now that I brought them up, I think you can get bare heads from HF and probably statuesque too, so that may be an easier alternative to sculpting them yourself.

Awesome thanks for the extra detail.

I'm just following a painting guide for Necron dynasty colours and it mentins using Leadbelcher over a Chaos Black base. I have sprays of both but am running low on the pot versions, so was just making sure.

I'll just spray both layers.

I actually need more advice on scultping torsos and the like. I'm sure you can figure why, given how lopsided daemonettes are. Don't get me wrong, I know what the intention was, but they just look unfinished to me.

well den.
Titties are hard.
Same advice applies though.
Dig into artists anatomy references for torsos and the like.
Since you usually got one breast on the model already you just got to match the other one and make it look in the right direction.

Good luck.

I posted this in the 40k general but it's moving a bit fast and it got passed up pretty quickly.

Is a chapter with entirely different colors per squad permitted? I'm fairly new to /mydudes/ and want to pay tribute to my favorite series but don't know if something like that has precedence in 40k. Still in progress obviously

Needs more rust, especially on those barrels, they look near-pristine.

That green seeping effect could use some layering of some kind, it's sort of flat as-is.

It's fine to have a chapter with all of them completely different colors. Some people may get triggered by this and call it heresy though.

I think it might look a bit weird
Maybe have like the assault marines be the gravity suit and the captain be the Varia suit?

Differentiating squads entirely by color isn't a thing, but BA for example have different helmet colors and I don't see why you couldn't have alternate paint schemes via squad role if you really wanted to.

But your color schemes in general need a lot of work. Samus's suit schemes are from the 90's and don't really translate well to 40k tabletop.

They can try their best to purge me then

Yeah, I would only use 3 suit colors at most, maybe 4 for a captain exclusive color. It's still all in the air, although the three colors I tried out might end up being the final 3 suits I choose since they're so iconic.

Also trying to think of a relevant name, with the placeholder being a little too cheesy for me. The Prime Hunters
Har har

>But your color schemes in general need a lot of work. Samus's suit schemes are from the 90's and don't really translate well to 40k tabletop.

What did he mean by this?

Are you implying the aesthetic is stale?

Chozo Champions
Sons of Samus
Metroids Malevolent
Scions of Adam
Brinstar Raiders

There's no way that could be the case, right, my totally gnarly and bodacious dude?!

>Scions of Adam
>Adam
No thanks. The other ones aren't bad though, Most fond of Brinstar Raiders so far

Maybe for fluff they seek to emulate their leader, an unparalleled warrior from another dimension, and train endlessly to hone their skills? Gives me kind of a Deathwatch-ish kind of vibe

>tfw I still say gnarly and radical by reflex

I mean I agree the scheme is a bit garish but how is that in any way relevant to warhammer 40k.

Perhaps try following the reply chain upwards and actually reading the discussion.

Allow me to rephrase the question.

Why would being garish/gaudy/retro/etc matter in warhammer 40k.

I bet you like GW's plastic AdMech robots.

You disgust me.

They are your models and you can do whatever you want with them, even if it is making them look like hideous clowns.

*blocks your progress

I've actually got the battleforce sitting on my bookshelf right now. :^)

I'm painting them metallic gold

Do it user. Do it and post them. I will defend you until the day I die.

CUSTODEBOTS, ACTIVATE!

Not even a problem without that fat giantess to harrass me

I'm using Shattered Dominion bases on my 30k SW and paint them up as the ruins of Prospero.

>AN HOUR for lunch
Seriously, I think I envy you. Next you're going to say you actually enjoy going to work.

Hes on his way

Night Lord contemptor

Very nice, love the details. Maybe the metal looks a bit too clean?

Getting there user. Looking forward to seeing how it all comes together with a bit of weathering. You're attaching the second wing, right? It will look silly with only one.

Probably too late, and just a personal "thing" of mine, but drilling the barrels would have made this even better. Defintely get some Nuln oil or something on the red parts, especially inside the fist.

I need opinions on my sniper drones conversions. I hate shitcast and the metal models are bad/cost a lot.

>53686804
Another image

The one on the left looks pretty good. The one on the right just looks like a pulse rifle, I would do a rail rifle or something that looks like a sniper.

Well the one on the left is an actual sniper drone :P I feel you're right but i don't have any other bits to work with :/

Just finished up my first two beep boops. The gun hands were silly looking, they just looked like weird bolters, and I wanted to be able to use the fists too. All guns are magnetized. The heads were silly too, so they got switched out for some bingo balls and the smoke launchers from an Onager

Melee variant.

That sounds like D&D or Pathfinder, so this is definitely the wrong thread. However, that is the average in case the DM just doesn't want to roll all those dice for chaff monsters or whatever.

Mekboy

So I'm slowly working on my Inquisition army, and I decided to put some Acolytes in Tauroxes. I hated the guns that were directly in line with the doors though. How does this look?

ridiculous

If you absolutely must put the side guns somewhere, putting them in the cab, beside the driver's seat. Don't overload the turret.

So I bought an imperial noble to use for my rogue trader's retinue, planning to use him as a seneschal/diplomat character. He got a little messed up in transit, so I decided to fix him and make him just a bit creepy. He still needs some liquid greenstuff in the gap between gun and elbow and theres some hair on him that I need to remove but I really like him.

Fucking impressive. I hope mine turns out that good.

iam struggling now . when i was young i glued my guys with rule of cool in mind but now wehn i play them i kinda pain and people that i play want me to WYSIWYG but i don;t want to cut my minis;/ hmmm

How to kitbash a pulse accelerator drone? I was thinking of using a stealth team objective marker as the "body" and adding a stealth team drone controller on the back!!