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Harvey Mantaco posted:Hmm. I already did a wash, literally the one mentioned. I was worried the residue it left on the higher up surfaces and what seemed like me to be too much pooling in the nooks would be too much so I cleaned off a lot of it with a large soak-brush. How much does that stuff "dry down" and reduce? Was I being too paranoid? Take a look at this video from Warhammer TV. It's an in-depth painting tutorial for the Lord of Contagion which is basically just the HQ unit of the guys you painted and uses the exact same colour scheme. The time-code I linked you to is just before they start washing things, and should give you a good idea of how much to put on and what it looks like once done. They do really nice tutorials.
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DiHK posted:I'm not a fan of any wood in the 40k universe. Wood is natural, the Imperium is anything but. Even in the pulp novels wood is a prized antique. What about the Skitarii weapons? It looks to me like the ranger rifles are meant to be wood.
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Luminaflare posted:What about the Skitarii weapons? It looks to me like the ranger rifles are meant to be wood. Well, in their case it fits with their steampunk aesthetic.
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Looking for a bit of input while I'm only at base colours. Is there too much green on the gun?   Other thoughts and/or suggestions are of course welcome.
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Groetgaffel posted:Looking for a bit of input while I'm only at base colours. I think so? Maybe pick out panels in/add a stripe of the blue that you're using for the armour? Looking good though.
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Trenchdeep posted:I think so? Maybe pick out panels in/add a stripe of the blue that you're using for the armour? I think what I'm going to do is do the entire middle of the gun, including the handle, metal, and leave mostly the side panels and ammo box green. And then do the metal on the gun darker so that it doesn't blend together with the metal arms, just like I did with my Straken.
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After doing some more painting, basing, touching up, and shading. the Death Guard are (pretty much) complete!     
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Quickly threw some red on the bolter of another one I'm working on at the moment, I was expecting it to look at bit tacky but actually looks pretty cool once the highlights are on.
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Red weapons against black armour are nice. It’s the official Deathwatch colour scheme.
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Max Wilco posted:After doing some more painting, basing, touching up, and shading. the Death Guard are (pretty much) complete! I really like the flesh tone you used. Meaty.
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Count_Brass posted:Quickly threw some red on the bolter of another one I'm working on at the moment, I was expecting it to look at bit tacky but actually looks pretty cool once the highlights are on. Looks great, your painting is very neat. You can always go for a less saturated red but I really like the way it pops as is, though I am also painting a lot of Deathwatch so my scheme is similar.
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Got that Soviet Space AK bakelite feel.
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Max Wilco posted:After doing some more painting, basing, touching up, and shading. the Death Guard are (pretty much) complete!  Well done.
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I painted most of these a long time ago (the king and queen are new), but I mentioned liking ratfolk. Here's all my ratfolk I have: Zoom:   
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Sporkie posted:I really like the flesh tone you used. Meaty. I just used the Rakarth Flesh color that came with the Death Guard paint kit. I don't really get why they don't include the Carroburg Crimson wash with the set, since that's what the display versions uses. Aniodia posted:
I have to say that after finishing these, I feel torn on how I feel about mini painting so far. On one hand, doing these Death Guard was a little stressful and obnoxious at times, and looking at the final result, there's a lot I still have issue with. Even after touching up, I realize that I missed a bunch of places that have errant paint, and I either forgot to apply wash in some places, or didn't apply enough. The pustules I tried mixing paint together to get a gross-looking color, but from watching someone's else video, I might have been better served painting them white, then yellow over it. I also still feel like I can't thin paint worth a drat, since more than few areas look bumpy and ugly looking At the same time, I still have a desire to do more, since I've had inspiration for projects after watching videos of people painting minis and terrain on YouTube. The one that really got me motivated was the idea to take a bunch of broken or recycled PC parts or cases, and use it to build scenery for a Space Hulk-style diorama with Terminators and Genestealers. Another was to try to paint Space Marines from various different chapters, seeing as how cheap the bog-standard Space Marine minis seem to be. I'm also glad to see complements on it, even if I think it's not that great  (though I am really happy with how the one with the visor came out, and the Plague Champion looks pretty good).Also, I'm happy to see there is an actual Space Marine emote.
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I made a base I'm pretty happy with. Well, that's my story, thanks for listening.
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Ok, my first Killteam model is built and ready to be primed. My Intersessor SGT. Like I said in the 40K thread, the Intercessor spur does not include a Power Sword, so I had to take one from the Tactical Marine spur. Just snip the hand off a left arm and boom, it fits pretty well. also, with it already primed, the head actually looks good. The piece I cut so the head fits on the model blends really well I think.
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Max Wilco posted:I just used the Rakarth Flesh color that came with the Death Guard paint kit. I don't really get why they don't include the Carroburg Crimson wash with the set, since that's what the display versions uses. Don't worry, the feeling's normal. I spent half an hour last night debating whether or not to do eyes on a dude and it was more stressful than it had any right to be (humble brag though, dude has eyes now!). Other things like washes, errant paint, and thinning takes time to get a hand at - I'm still fairly rubbish at them myself. As for the pustules, that's always tricky to pull off. I myself mostly use TAP Disgusting Slime (the equivalent of GW's nurgle's rot, without a nerd-shaming title and the Citadel price tag) for them these days but I've had good luck in layering white, then a very thin pink layer, then building yellow to cream coming to a head with a nasty little red, brown or black point. If you keep at it, you'll get there. Once you do a few more dudes and settle into the groove completely, I'd recommend investing in a good quality magnifying headset. It really helps cut down on errant paint and missed detail. A lot of that is down to brush control still, but one of the advantages of magnification is you can actually see the brush end doing its thing in some detail, letting you spot where you might have a bad habit of leaning too flat in or a stray hair complicating the issue. As it stands, my honest opinion is that your dudes are definitely a little rough around the edges, but for a newbie, they're actually in pretty good shape - the paint isn't as thick as house paint, they're recognizable as what they are, the visual palettes are clear, and some of the bone is actually quite nicely done in how it shades into a disgusting rot brown. There's a world of technique for you to work your way into yet, as well as a ludicrously large paint collection to assemble (trust me - you will end up with too many paints. You go 'oh, this reaper triad of brown will do what I need for browns, right?' but next thing you know you also have two leather tones because you got tired of mixing them and a brown hair drybrush paint) but everyone's first few models are rough and ready. Duncan Rhodes, the dude who does all the GW painting videos and is a justly deserved sainted figure of model painting, started out here: 
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Max Wilco posted:I have to say that after finishing these, I feel torn on how I feel about mini painting so far. Everyone's motivation is different, and it comes and goes. There's been times where I haven't even touched a brush in half a year, and on the other hand there's days like today. I wasn't going to paint at all, sat down at my desk to watch some Netflix, and before I even realised what I was doing I reached for paint pots and brushes and started painting.
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Say, what would you all recommend for making brown or brunette hair?
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Depends on the kind of brown. I start out with MSP Blackened Brown, lightening it up with yellow (the TAP Babe Blonde is actually quite good for this) to a sort of mouse brown, and then darken with TAP's red wash and strong tone for a lighter brown hair. For darker brown, I lighten it less and use a mix of dark and strong tone to wash.
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Gonna clarify a little, in that any sort of plague marine that makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little is perfectly fine. Hell, given that's it's a whole Nurgle-y army, I'd be surprised if you didn't go for the gross. Also, honest opinion, check out the /wip/ thread over on 4chan's /tg/. There's a pdf floating around every so often of a dude painting up a bunch of Nurgle daemons just using washes. As much as I know about the setting and dudes and whatnot, I'm more into Warhammer Fantasy than 40k, so I didn't think to grab it the last time it made it's rounds in the thread, but I'm sure an anon over there still has it if you ask. Really cool to see what can be done without using any "real" paints, and pretty helpful if you're gonna stick to gross, Nurgle-y poo poo. Seconding the magnifying headset, especially if you're starting to get on the older side of life and/or your eyes just naturally suck (like mine do) and you need glasses for everyday life. Being able to see is always a pretty rad thing, and being able to see while also doing things is twice as rad (at least). Plus, most of those doodads tend to also come with built-in lights, so you don't have to worry as much about proper lighting. Hell, even one of those stands with a big-rear end magnifying glass and two little alligator clips that are usually used for electronics wouldn't be a bad pickup, either. Also, I did a thing.  These guys are Eureka Miniatures' "Elf Reavers with Axes", or as I'm using them, proxy White Lions of Chrace for my Warmaster army. Still gotta put the basecoat on the axe handles, and highlight everything, but they're coming along. Wish I could get better pictures, but a) my iphone camera is dildos, b) my current light (while nice for painting) blows out any sort of pictures and c) I'm just too cheap and lazy to fix these problems right now Now, I just need some more time off from work and maybe I can get started on the rest of my command  and the remainder of my army.  that's 6 chariots, 4 repeating bolt throwers, 1 unit of reavers, 3 silver helms units, 1 Dragon Princes unit, 5 archer units, 1 lothern sea guard kitbash unit, 3 spearmen units, 1 unit of swordmasters, 1 unit of phoenix guard, a dude on an eagle and another on a dragon.
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40k xpost:Major Spag posted:Rush job vanguard vets:
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Max Wilco posted:I just used the Rakarth Flesh color that came with the Death Guard paint kit. I don't really get why they don't include the Carroburg Crimson wash with the set, since that's what the display versions uses. Rakarth is a great tone in general, lots of uses even for not fleshy bits. One of my favorites. And is just so lovely and meaty on actual meaty bits. Like I said earlier, Death Guard are obnoxious to paint. Lots of fun in the end, but there's always moments every time I think I'm done with one I look back and realize I missed something. Sometimes it's small like 'oh, I missed that tube' to a few times of 'oh crap, I completely missed dry-brushing and washing the backpack'. They have so many details it's easy to get distracted into thinking you're done, only to come back and realize you missed something. I both love and hate them for that. As long as you're happy in the end, even with bits you may have missed, that's the important thing. And it's always satisfying to look at a model and go 'hey, I did a thing and it looks pretty neat'.
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Painted up an evil tree for AoS. It’s nice to finally have a use for all this basing and scenery bits I’ve had sitting around in a closet with nothing to use it on.
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 In awe at the size of these lads. Absolute Imperial Unit.
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BigRed0427 posted:Say, what would you all recommend for making brown or brunette hair? I mean, it depends on recessive/dominant alleles but for sure start by finding a partner with brown hair.
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BigRed0427 posted:Say, what would you all recommend for making brown or brunette hair? Find a brown that's reasonably close to the end result you're after (e.g. Mournfang for Dark brown, Steel Legion Drab for mousy brown). Wash with Agrax Earthshade, Highlight/Layer/Drybrush with a lighter brown (e.g. Tallarn Sand etc..) Push it further with a finer layer of something lighter. If it goes to light, wash it again with Agrax. Schadenboner posted:I mean, it depends on recessive/dominant alleles but for sure start by finding a partner with brown hair. 
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richyp posted:Find a brown that's reasonably close to the end result you're after (e.g. Mournfang for Dark brown, Steel Legion Drab for mousy brown). Wash with Agrax Earthshade, Highlight/Layer/Drybrush with a lighter brown (e.g. Tallarn Sand etc..) Push it further with a finer layer of something lighter. If it goes to light, wash it again with Agrax. You go to joke with the set-up you have, not the set-up you might wish you had. 
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Schadenboner posted:You go to joke with the set-up you have, not the set-up you might wish you had. That's what she said...
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We've got a lot of the airbrush stuff covered, except for booths. Can some people link to what theyre using? I thought I might have had enough stuff around to make one, but without a box fan, I'm probably better off just buying one.
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I imagine many of us use this: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Airbrush-Portable-Lighting-Extension/dp/B00NLQ019A
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Yeah aren't many options in airbrush booths. There's cheapo ones like the Master one, and then the next step up tend to be quite expensive. I went with the Master one, then added on another unit beside it, and then added a custom shroud around it since I do garage-kit stuff that can be quite large. If all you're doing is minis, or 1/35 scale modeling, a single Master booth is more than enough though. 
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That's cool, and so clean! I'll probably just be doing minis in the booth. I will probably bring my airbrush setup upto the garage to lay the patterns on my kids pedal car this fall.
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bonds0097 posted:I imagine many of us use this: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Airbrush-Portable-Lighting-Extension/dp/B00NLQ019A That's the one I use. I paid extra for the unit with the light bar, and wish I hadn't it doesn't fit correctly and has never worked. Other than that the hood works fine.
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Bucnasti posted:That's the one I use. I paid extra for the unit with the light bar, and wish I hadn't it doesn't fit correctly and has never worked. Other than that the hood works fine. I bought a spool of led strips and taped several rows in my booth with some switches. Worked great and cost like 10 bucks.
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Aniodia posted:Gonna clarify a little, in that any sort of plague marine that makes me want to throw up in my mouth a little is perfectly fine. Hell, given that's it's a whole Nurgle-y army, I'd be surprised if you didn't go for the gross. I actually did get ahold of magnifying stand, though I haven't really used it that much.  So far, when it come to getting minute details, what works for me so far to hold it close to my chest and focus on it. If anything, it would help if I wore my glasses. I would like to venture into trying to paint some Warhammer Fantasy stuff too. Playing Total Warhammer and Sporkie posted:Rakarth is a great tone in general, lots of uses even for not fleshy bits. One of my favorites. And is just so lovely and meaty on actual meaty bits. Yeah, I think I might look to try and paint something a bit less detailed next time. Then again, I might just forget that and try painting some orks.  WAAAGH!
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