Work in Progress General /WIP/

I'd clean up the eye and plasma vents a bit. Otherwise pretty good.

i like it. I hope orks aren't has horde-y as in fantasy. That much detail could drive you insane on 100 rank and file dudes.

It's just for shadespire so fortuneately it's only 4 boyz to paint. Painting an actaul horde army would be hell with my glacial painting speed

I really like your work.

My Tau Armored division is making progress. One more Hammerhead and the 1000pt core is complete.

Finished the stormcast dudes. About to start my barbarians. I'm worried about acheiving a good flesh. The face on steelheart is the only flesh I've painted yet.
I've only got Rakarth, Cadian, Kislev, and pallid Wych flesh paints. I've got lots of other colors, just not much in way of flesh.
Also I primed them brown so hopefully that will look good for flesh. It was great for the gold's on stormcast.

>Do I receive a confirmation after signup?
Yes, I send 'em out as soon as I see the email, shouldn't take longer than 1-2 days. If you got none til then, resend a mail.

>What shall I include in the email?
Well, your address, obviously. You also can include what you are collecting etc, but don't expect to get something related to that 100%

>What shall I gift?
I don't know, use your imagination! You can check last year's SS here: imgur.com/a/1fxhq

>How much should I gift?
Well it should be at least 10-15$ in value, so that it is worthwhile all the hassle. But you can also go higher and nobody will say a thing if it's only 7.85$. It's the gesture that counts.

>When do we get our matches?
The matching will take place Dec 1st and after that, you'll receive an email with the address of your match

>What about shipping costs?
I try to do continental matching, so they shouldn't be too high. If you specifically want someone from another continent, I also try to aarrange that!

>What do if I get grinched?
Email me and I'll try to contact your match. If we can't sort it out, he'll get put onto the naughty list. Often, we find kind anons jumping and sending something to you in this case!

>Why the fuck are we doing this?
Because /WIP/ is literally the most wholesome online community.

>Do people sign up from country XY?
Most people sign up from NA and EU, but also from Australia, Japan, whatever. If you only want to participate of someone else from your country registers, you can ask in advance, just shoot an email.

looks really nice, only bad thing is the gap/rough shoulder pad on hammer guy, it really could have done with being filled before you painted it

Love that turquoise! Do you still work on the silver? It looks a little unfinished to me

I know I screwed it on the modelling. The push-fits weren't friendly to sub assemblies. I fucked up the paint at one point trying to push fit them to bases.
For next warbands I'm probably fully assembling (except maybe the bases). For the Reavers I've already filled the huge gaps in a few of the guys

Does anybody know where I could find some 28/32mm katana bits, either sheathed or drawn? I’m looking to make some elves even more weeaboo.

Proceeding slowly on my Retro Marines test model. Fuck yellow is hard to paint, even over Averland Sunset. Still, got a good result. Now we're getting to the fun part - highlighting the armor.

yellow and black

Let's give it one more go!

Beastmen Regiment box got.

Dubs decide what I try to make out of them. Still NO guard regiment.

That’s beautiful!

40k chaos beastmen

It's be cool to inject a tiny bit of warmth into the skin tones on the extremes like the ears, nose and lips. People usually do pink, I don't imagine that would work on your scheme, a hint of the mauve you used inside the mouth would look good though.

BeastKroot. You gotta

thats dope

WINRAR

And actually pretty dope idea! Thanks! We'll see what I can come up with.

First GW tool I've bought in about fifteen years. £5 is actually cheap too.

Don't you mean 5 pounds plus shipping? :V

But does it fit a picatinny rail?

Is it that cheap?
I was thinking of using cork + poster tack but if the handle is that cheap I'm gonna get that instead

There you go. Now stop posting the same thing over and over and do some hobbying instead

Here you go.

I'm waiting on the final rathcore handle reviews and see what they're like before blowing 5 on that handle. Seems like the first GW product tool that has a decent quality and price.

this desu. I want the meme bar thing.

thats actually really cool user, looks good too

Somebody try and post pics. Citadel manufactured stubby grips now.

Tamiya varnish finally arrived. This means Johnnypharius is finally done. Enjoy.

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Great! Now go and take a decent picture

Fridgeposting incoming then.

The color on the hammerhead seems way out of place with the rest of the model. It's also pretty flat from what I can see. Has it been washed?

That's an amazing paint scheme, what's the battlesuits/infantry loom like?

I presume the hex effect is airbrushed. Do you mask it off each time, or have you built a template that you can reuse?

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Here's something I just turned in for a small contest in my LGS. Freehanding that shit was hard. I'm used to much more forgiving techniques.

Ok, never seen these before. Fugging expensive, but they don't require you to have the mini already on a citadel base. Hmm

doesn't look much more elaborate than a wooden dowel and some poster tack. Always did that and I must have spent less than a buck. Ugly, but cheap and it works.

Did you post the method for the turquoise in another thread? It looks really nice.

wow, love the checkers

Better. Well done for the armor.

Its actually amazing

It has the cork thing for grabbing pins, so no drilling every time, which is maybe nice?

I dunno, still not seeing the price.

Thanks! Any suggestions for highlights, shades, primers?

Looks fantastic user. You make a really good Lamenter.

The model needs more cleaning up.

>metal white lions

HNNNGG

The weathering and the OSL effect on the eyes are especially good on those. Well done lad.

Have to admit that I'm tempted to buy one as well. How does it compare to blutac and a cork?

Is the base weighted at all? Or is it likely to topple over if I set it down for a moment?

As a white tack and paint pot person, I prefer this new tool, less chance of moving or falling off over time.

It's hollow plastic so fairly light but it shouldn't fall over as the handle is quite bulbous.

Awesome!

well meme'd

Its white drybrush over nihil oxide. Should I do a wash of nihil over that?

Still working on putting together Spire of Dawn, starting with elfs. They are really lovely models, it's a shame they'll be destroyed if I my spastic ass chooses to paint them. I'm more of a builder/modeler than a painter. What are some really fun and challenging kits you guys have built? I have been tempted to try a Baneblade or something from Forge World like Death Korps. I have not tried working with resin besides some shitcast a few years back.

How is this any better than gripping it from the base like I have been doing for 20 years?

2nd ed Ultramarine scheme is best

Hello lads,

What do you use to protect your dudes once you have finished them to stop chips and such?

I imagine gloss varnish is not useful for anything apart from windows etc.

Thanks.

Were you able to get ahold of the organizer and get the naughty listers from last year?

WIP daemon prince

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very nice conversion, very nurgly. I would personally give it a light wash of reikland fleshshade or something to that effect on the fleshy bits to give it a more sickly look.

Vallejo matte varnish for infantry. On vehicles I mix it 5/1 with gloss varnish.

I can give that a shot!

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straight paint thinner wont damage old metal models will it? i wanna leave em to soak while i'm away for a week

Floor polish. It's like hard wearing acrylic gloss varnish, but instead of getting a 17ml dropper bottle of the stuff for your £2 you get a litre of it. Plus it imparts a pleasant perfumed aroma to your minis.

Once you've put a coat or two of that on (or another gloss varnish if you really are intent on wasting your money) they'll stand up to a bit of punishment, then you can apply a matt varnish to any parts you don't want glossy (or a mix of the two if you want a more satin finish). AK Ultra Matt is the best I've encountered, it's like the matt-est stuff you've ever seen; not even the slightest hint of a shine, and you don't have to shake it for half your natural life like some other brands.

I'm a big fan of using the level of gloss as a final touch of realism, it can really help to make a model more convincing if the different materials it's supposed to be made out of have the right sheen to them. It never seems to get addressed in painting guides, but I think that's because it doesn't show up in pictures. On a three dimensional model it's the tits.

I bought some random shit at a swap meet.

here they are, so far.

No but it'll fuck up plastic bases, and plastic components you've stuck onto the metal( eg space marine backpacks)

>gripping it from the base

Yeah. It looks better IRL than in the picture. Cameras always seem to make my models look like ass. :c

thanks! i have already removed all the bases. they are all single piece metal blood bowl and guard so nothing else to worry about.

>Cameras always seem to make my models look like ass.
I know your pain

Come at me bro?

Granted neither of us is using a lightbox. Still, these super-mega-pixel cameras pick out details that we would normally miss.

>ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!

the mold lines!

Yeah cameras always make my face look like ass too user.

Yep.

It's the cameras fault. I mean if you view my face from 6 foot away with the naked eye it looks fine.

Nigger, the camera didn't fucking miss painting those parts or correcting mistakes.

Racist language is not allowed outside of /b/ and /pol/.

Sounds like you belong here, grognard.

You will not post any of the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry") or grotesque ("guro") images, post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography.

it's not actually allowed on /pol/ either

Hey, could you please tell me how you did the skin? This tone is my most favorite and I'd like to copy it for my orcs!

Can i see a pic of one of your dudes?

I think this is a ruse

Future Floor Polish (knows as Pledge these days) is something that's used quite frequently as a varnish in normal model building (not wargaming).
It's also used to coat transparent parts to make them clearer and more shiny (like full dip and drip dry).

So it's not inconceivable that user is using the stuff for his models.

WELL, WHAT IS IT?

That camo is fucking sexy so far

It would leave your models really shiny though, which usually looks like shit, I think. I'd use matte varnish, either in stead of the shiny stuff or on top of it, if you want it extra safe from chipping and the greasy fingers of players less gifted in the art of sanitation.