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Everything you paint has such distinctive style, Germ. Almost like a watercolor effect.
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Scowny posted:I've got a 1000 points for Zone Mortalis that basically is the Calth box, not sure if it's any good? I haven't played any ZM so I may be off base but I'd be a little worried about dealing with terminators or enemy dreadnoughts- it looks like you have plenty of ways to pop infantry but are a little light on dealing with the tougher stuff.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Everything you paint has such distinctive style, Germ. Almost like a watercolor effect. I appreciate that! Usually, I like my style. In this case, though, I was hoping for more of a graphic, hard-line look.New day, new challenge!
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Jan 25, 2016 21:23
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Masters Of Siege (ROW) -May target friendly units with template attacks -Must re-roll unsuccessfully hits that target friendly units -2 additional troops choices, mandatory
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Jan 25, 2016 21:38
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BULBASAUR posted:Masters Of Siege (ROW) -Friendly models hit may not make cover saves.
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Jan 25, 2016 21:40
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Also to the dude who wanted to play White Scars, here's a cool paint theme that's pretty easy to pull off and looks dope:   (not mine obviously)
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Jan 25, 2016 21:57
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drat, now that's how you do 30k Scars.
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Germ posted:I appreciate that! Usually, I like my style. In this case, though, I was hoping for more of a graphic, hard-line look.New day, new challenge! Seconding , the fact that your stuff is always dope as hell. I'm going to be painting up some nurgle daemons in the near future and I specifically thought of yours and Peirre's demons as inspiration.
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Jan 25, 2016 23:54
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That would be me. Those are fantastic. I know how to do the chipped armor look but what's the best way to do the dirt and grime?
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BULBASAUR posted:Masters Of Siege (ROW) The mandatory troops cement this as reality rather than fiction.
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OhDearGodNo posted:That would be me. Those are fantastic. I know how to do the chipped armor look but what's the best way to do the dirt and grime? Start with a Zenithal Prime. Then highlight with white, color in your red, and do your metals. Oil wash everything with a dark brown and then throw some pigments on for the dirt afterwards. It's super super easy to great results on white, but you use a rattelcan or airbrush. If you do this by hand you will hate your life.
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I'll post my test guy, now it's a party: I learned a lot because I made many mistakes. 1. Next time base color > pin wash > highlights. The wash absolutely killed my highlights doing it last. 2. EC don't generally have white shoulders. I'm going to go with the classic 40k EC shoulders because they're ostentatious and I want to go more Mid-Heresy (post-Maraviglia) with my space-barbies. 3. I used a filthy brush to mop up the wash, and it left chunks all over that leg.  Next time, every time, clean brushes.I picked up an IMEX platformer kit to chop up and make basing easier. Going forward, instead of frontier world / Necromunda I'd like to base them urban / space hulk. Do we know anything more about the Kakophoni-as-troops RoW?
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Jan 26, 2016 01:52
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Hopefully by next weekend, is anyone in the thread going?
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BULBASAUR posted:Start with a Zenithal Prime. Then highlight with white, color in your red, and do your metals. Oil wash everything with a dark brown and then throw some pigments on for the dirt afterwards. It's super super easy to great results on white, but you use a rattelcan or airbrush. If you do this by hand you will hate your life. Thanks I've never used an airbrush. Guess it's a good time to start.
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You can get away with rattlecans honestly, but an airbrush makes painting really easy.
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moths posted:I'll post my test guy, now it's a party: I like your plastic man! Hadn't realized there was a place on the bolter for a dot of color. It ties in the eyes nicely. I'm going to steal that. The one thing I would suggest is to consider making the chest bands gold/brass instead of silver. Nothing says EC like purple and gold.
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Before you get too deep into that, just take a peek at Champ Industries's bases. They have some industrial zone bases that are $0.30/each that might be easier for you in the long run. The marine looks good though. Better than the one I did, which I'm just too drat ashamed to even post. I was thinking of a single white shoulderpad, gold legion emblem on white field for my marines. I may decide to go with more of a stone grey and white highlight though.
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Hey 30k test painting buddies. I was the dude looking at white scars but decided to go with Word Bearers out of a total lack of suitable asian heads. Those look pretty great though and are similar to what I would have done if I had the skill. Anyway here's my fellas, also doing Ultras for a buddy.  My first Word Bearer, trying for a metallic style with different washes over runefang then a sorta edge highlight weathering with Necron compound. You can see I still haven't got paint thinning or uniform washes down and theres some pretty crappy smears of metal I need to sort out but I still like it. I then got excited and painted a few more.  Theres the lonely Ultramarine bro, painted in a slightly different way using mixed metal paints, I've also painted one of them with the same method as my Word Bearers but I don't have the right inks or paints for it. Still a bunch of sloppy stuff but overall these are easily my favourite marines I've painted. Waiting on a delivery of new brushes and some metal medium to experiment with.
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Those looks pretty good, overall. It has a unique style to it- kinda like a worn, well brushed metal. Is that what you were going for? e: One problem you might have is that nothing really pops on the models to make them catch your eye. If you are looking for feedback, I would consider adding more saturated highlights to areas like the lenses, metals, and raised armor plates. That should be enough to bring them to life I think. BULBASAUR fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Jan 26, 2016 |
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koreban posted:The marine looks good though. Better than the one I did, which I'm just too drat ashamed to even post.  just do it. It's cool to see what people are working on and it's cool to have a bunch of different ideas in this thread. There's a bunch of really high quality stuff but it's totally great to see everyone's projects!
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BULBASAUR posted:Those looks pretty good, overall. It has a unique style to it- kinda like a worn, well brushed metal. Is that what you were going for? Thanks, man. Yeah thats sorta what I was going for, figured it sorta looks like they've just hastily changed to their fancy new traitor scheme and then got stuck in. Also got some weathering pigments incoming to play with. Agreed on nothing really popping, I don't have the right paints to really highlight the green lenses at the moment so I'll be grabbing some of those. I was also thinking of adding light grey to the WB scheme (to symbolise the ashes of monarchia /sperg) but apart from the tactical marine faceplate wasn't sure where to put it and had bought the wrong grey. How would you suggest highlighting the armour plates? I am looking for feedback here to make my mans as pretty as possible.
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tallkidwithglasses posted:
 The white on the shoulderpad looks as bad as the white on the kneepad. This was after a black prime, xereus purple base, drakenhof nightshade wash, genestealer purple highlight. I dind't bother cleaning up or finishing the bolter. Proof of concept was enough at that point and the lovely chalky white frustrated me to no end. To the right is a guardsman that I did up to reflect my character in a dark heresy RP game. Dual weilding hotshot las tank driver who's carrying the ministorum priest's blessed eviscerator while he plonks daemons with a venerated thunder hammer courtesy of the Grey Knights.
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BULBASAUR posted:Also to the dude who wanted to play White Scars, here's a cool paint theme that's pretty easy to pull off and looks dope: noice
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Hencoe posted:Hopefully by next weekend, is anyone in the thread going? Yup, I'll be there. Are you? Or anyone else?
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Strike Captain Alvarex Maun 140 Primus Medicae: artificer armour; bolt pistol; power weapon; melta bombs; refractor field; jump pack 145 14 Tactical Space Marines: chainswords; nuncio-vox; legion vexilla; + 1 Tactical Sergeant (artificer armour; power weapon; melta bombs) 275 14 Tactical Space Marines: chainswords; legion vexilla; + 1 Tactical Sergeant (artificer armour; power weapon; melta bombs) 265 Apothecarion Detachment • Apothecary: augury scanner 50 • Apothecary: augury scanner 50 9 Veteran Space Marines: 2× plasma gun; + 1 Veteran Sergeant (power weapon; artificer armour) 250 • Drop Pod 35 9 Veteran Space Marines: 2× plasma gun; + 1 Veteran Sergeant (power weapon; artificer armour) 250 • Drop Pod 35 9 Veteran Space Marines: 2× plasma gun; + 1 Veteran Sergeant (power weapon; artificer armour) 250 • Drop Pod 35 7 Dark Furies: + 1 Chooser of the Slain (melta bombs) 270 Land Speeder Squadron • Land Speeder: volkite culverin; graviton gun 75 • Land Speeder: volkite culverin; graviton gun 75 Land Speeder Squadron • Land Speeder: volkite culverin; graviton gun 75 • Land Speeder: volkite culverin; graviton gun 75 Fire Raptor Gunship 200 Corvus Corax: Rite of War (Decapitation Strike) 450 3.000 points I think this is going to be my finalized list, and the last purchases I ever make from GW
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I've been eyeballing the Victory is Vengeance campaign from book three as a way to get myself and perhaps a few others into 30k recently. If anyone has participated in one, or run the tactical strike rules at all, I'd be very interested in hearing about it.
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richyp posted:- I'd do the studs in your first highlight colour (maybe thinned a bit more) with a dot of unthinned at the very tip. If it looks too much, wash it with black afterwards. Instead of painting a new model, I went ahead and did this on the existing one. The extra layer of highlights helped all around; on the studs and the power armour. I think from here on it's just a matter of getting practiced with painting neat, crisp lines (instead of my typical "painterly" swashes). I think I also have a tendency to create my own highlight areas rather than sticking to the edges. I'll try restricting my highlights more on the power armour, since I like the effect it creates in others' work. I added a red dot to part of the bolter. It helped tie things together a bit more. I was semi-successful in bringing out the beak vents. Next up is taking a stab at repainting the backpack. I'm also thinking about adding a lot more details to the models - combat knives, bolt pistols, and the like. At least with my tactical blob, I was planning on running them with an extra close combat weapon, and some extra details might help create some more visual interest. It would also give me a place to bring in an olive drab color, which I'll likely be using for cloaks on the Mor Deythan and Maun.
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Mango Polo posted:Yup, I'll be there. Are you? Or anyone else? I wish, I want to get my hands in book 6 as fast as physically possible. One of these years I'll go.
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Germ posted:Instead of painting a new model, I went ahead and did this on the existing one. The extra layer of highlights helped all around; on the studs and the power armour. I think from here on it's just a matter of getting practiced with painting neat, crisp lines (instead of my typical "painterly" swashes). I think I also have a tendency to create my own highlight areas rather than sticking to the edges. I'll try restricting my highlights more on the power armour, since I like the effect it creates in others' work. I've been adding extra bits and pieces to my tac guys too, things I normally wouldn't bother with like the knives, grenades and pouches (as they usually slow down the painting of units) as well as a backpack banner for each group, just because. Spent the last couple days assembling and priming a few more guys and painting up this guy, he was a lot less fun to paint than the regular tactical marines I posted earlier for some weird reason, I think it might have been the recessed armour plates with the raised metal edges around them making highlighting the red more of a pain. I also messed up the green on the cloak and went too much lighter with the last highlight.  Just noticed I forgot to paint the edge of the base black.
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Reynold posted:I've been eyeballing the Victory is Vengeance campaign from book three as a way to get myself and perhaps a few others into 30k recently. If anyone has participated in one, or run the tactical strike rules at all, I'd be very interested in hearing about it. I'm in a VIV campaign right now, with fellow goon Arven, and I'd love to answer questions about it. One thing that's worth mentioning up front is that it is inherently asymmetrical and requires active structural decisions from its players--it's intentionally impossible to play it without discussing how you want to assign objectives, whether and when you want objectives to be hidden versus public knowledge, and how many objectives everyone has. For example, ours is a two-player campaign. I'm Exterminators, Arven is Survivors. Survivors have a big uphill battle on the campaign level so we wanted to give them an edge at the mission level--it helps cultivate a real "winning the battle, losing the war" vibe. Each game, unless players want to invoke the Legendary Missions that become available at different times: The Exterminators player can either randomly generate one objective and keep it secret, or choose one objective that is public knowledge. The Survivors player can either randomly generate two objectives and have them be public knowledge, or choose one objective and keep it secret. There are some nuances and caveats, but that should give you a sense of the vibe we want. Arven is playing Militia, representing the resisting planetary defense force, and I'm playing a mix of warp cultists and Sons of Horus (with higher concentrations of marines as the invaders realize the scale of the problem). My most recent list was: Hero: Centurion with Cataphractii terminator armor and chainfist Leader: Grenadier Custodian with power weapon (I had another Leader but he died in our first game and I haven't been able to afford another.) Dreadnought w/ 2x CCW/Heavy Flamer arms (145) Veteran w/ power sword (25) 5 Breachers, melta gun (65) 17 Levied Auxiliaries (34) Grenadier w/ Flamer (10) Grenadier w/ heavy stubber (10) 2 Seekers (30) Tarantula w/ rotor cannons (30) =350 (Plentiful Personnel) I love VIV. Maybe I can take pictures of my force later.
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BULBASAUR posted:Also to the dude who wanted to play White Scars, here's a cool paint theme that's pretty easy to pull off and looks dope: I like the Alpha Legion infiltration.
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Mango Polo posted:Yup, I'll be there. Are you? Or anyone else? Mango you need to get all the deets on the new book. Also make sure to ask why they hate Iron Warriors and Dark Angles so much. For a friend. I actually expect you'll see Tyrants at the event this year nopantsjack posted:Thanks, man. Yeah thats sorta what I was going for, figured it sorta looks like they've just hastily changed to their fancy new traitor scheme and then got stuck in. Also got some weathering pigments incoming to play with. For your copper trim, I'd highlight with an old gold color in a few spots and then follow up with a bright silver. As for your armour plates, you have two options- line highlight with a brighter red color and then follow up with some light grey mixed in... or take a bright silver color and hit all your raised edges with it. Each has a different effect: Brighter highlights of the same color give a cartoony effect, like on the yellow edges and yellow rivets of my vindicator here:  Silver metallic highlights give a worn realistic effect to your model, but are more subtle:  I do both, which gives an interesting effect, but you'll be fine with one or the other.
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BULBASAUR posted:
Ah yeah, I can see both types in that image on the yellow parts, that looks nice. I'll probably give that a go since a lot of my edges are already somewhat hit with silver. Thanks for the pro-tips, they're much appreciated.
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BULBASAUR posted:Silver metallic highlights give a worn realistic effect to your model, but are more subtle: Does this ever rub off over time, because of it being graphite or do you spray some kind of sealant over it that keeps it from rubbing off?
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That's a silver metallic paint. Graphite generally gets put on areas I don't touch. As it is a bit darker it's good for hard to reach raised areas or scratches:     
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Wait so you're pointing to silver metallic paint with a pencil that you also use to create a metallic effect. Not confusing at all
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Sorry everyone. Hixson is a millennial. He was born incapable of reading sentences directly above pictures.
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Is he the one who throws plastic men in anger?
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No, thats the blood angels dude (stanyer?). I think hixon is the one who has to call panascope the warmaster. You guys have really good stories.
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