Professor Shark posted:

Yesterday I posted about how I had recently discovered that GW had produced a miniature for a race called the Pisceans (aka Fish People) back in Rogue Trader days:



Because I am bad with money and thought it was awesome, I discovered that a sculptor who works for Knightmare Miniatures had been putting together little Kickstarter projects that recreated old school GW miniatures; mostly Space Orcs, but also a few of the other hilarious and mind-boggling miniatures (such as that Tyranid Centaur thing). Back in '16 he did a run that included two Piscean models, which I purchased from e-minis.net a few minutes ago!:





(Not my pictures)

I don't know what I'll do with them, but I'd really like to include them in my old school, fun, Rouge Trader inspired army!

Professor Shark posted:

Thanks for the advice guys!

Cross-posting with 40K thread;


More things to paint! My father has worked with Silver Hake for the majority of his career, so I thought it would be fun to go with them as inspiration:



Any advice on how I can recreate this?

Hixson posted:

i took some new photos of my lightning today. My old ones were trash

Safety Factor posted:

Warlord WIP

Still to do: Highlight the red and bone segments, highlight the silver nodules on the shoulders, pick out another couple of lenses, minor clean up, shade/highlight/clean up the head, etc. The left foot is raised and resting on a blob of greenstuff for now. Later, once I get around to final basing, it'll be resting on a pile of rubble.

I also have this goddamn pile of arms and weapons



I'll be honest, I love this kit. I think this warlord is the single best model GW has ever produced. There are a couple of small things that could've been improved, such as cables being picked out better, but they're so minor they're unimportant and are likely a limitation of plastic versus resin at this scale. It takes forever to paint though. So much goddamn trim. I worked on one reaver and four warhounds simultaneously before this and that somehow felt like less of a slog. I think that's hindisght screwing with me though. Here's a little size comparison:


I also sincerely love the Solaria color scheme. It is such a nice break from the constant checkers and stripes that cover my 30k Dark Angels. Their heraldry is relatively simple and they have that beautiful mottled green. Heads and weapons are just red, but I've still got a lot left to do.

Cooked Auto posted:

Any advice on dealing with forking brush tips? I discovered that my main brushes have suddenly split and can't hold themselves together. Which may have been because I was a bit too vigorous cleaning mine a while ago.

Safety Factor posted:

Warlord WIP

Still to do: Highlight the red and bone segments, highlight the silver nodules on the shoulders, pick out another couple of lenses, minor clean up, shade/highlight/clean up the head, etc. The left foot is raised and resting on a blob of greenstuff for now. Later, once I get around to final basing, it'll be resting on a pile of rubble.

I also have this goddamn pile of arms and weapons



I'll be honest, I love this kit. I think this warlord is the single best model GW has ever produced. There are a couple of small things that could've been improved, such as cables being picked out better, but they're so minor they're unimportant and are likely a limitation of plastic versus resin at this scale. It takes forever to paint though. So much goddamn trim. I worked on one reaver and four warhounds simultaneously before this and that somehow felt like less of a slog. I think that's hindisght screwing with me though. Here's a little size comparison:


I also sincerely love the Solaria color scheme. It is such a nice break from the constant checkers and stripes that cover my 30k Dark Angels. Their heraldry is relatively simple and they have that beautiful mottled green. Heads and weapons are just red, but I've still got a lot left to do.

Z the IVth posted:

Converted ETB Intercessor into a Smash Captain. DIY chapter.



More views.

Safety Factor posted:

Warlord WIP

Still to do: Highlight the red and bone segments, highlight the silver nodules on the shoulders, pick out another couple of lenses, minor clean up, shade/highlight/clean up the head, etc. The left foot is raised and resting on a blob of greenstuff for now. Later, once I get around to final basing, it'll be resting on a pile of rubble.

I also have this goddamn pile of arms and weapons



I'll be honest, I love this kit. I think this warlord is the single best model GW has ever produced. There are a couple of small things that could've been improved, such as cables being picked out better, but they're so minor they're unimportant and are likely a limitation of plastic versus resin at this scale. It takes forever to paint though. So much goddamn trim. I worked on one reaver and four warhounds simultaneously before this and that somehow felt like less of a slog. I think that's hindisght screwing with me though. Here's a little size comparison:


I also sincerely love the Solaria color scheme. It is such a nice break from the constant checkers and stripes that cover my 30k Dark Angels. Their heraldry is relatively simple and they have that beautiful mottled green. Heads and weapons are just red, but I've still got a lot left to do.

Slimnoid posted:

I dig the mottled green look. What's your gold recipe, by the way?

Safety Factor posted:

Anyways, it's basecoated with Runelord Brass (over black if possible), washed with Nuln Oil, highlighted with Skullcrusher Brass (a really reddish brass, it's an odd color) and then Sycorax Bronze. I then clean up any big, flat areas with a thinned coat of Runelord Brass.

Slimnoid posted:

Right on. I'm hoping the golds I have already are a close approximation.

Safe to assume the mottled look came through sponging? I've done it in the past, mind, but I've also seen people do it using stippling via brushes.

Safety Factor posted:

Thanks. The green is actually really simple, I sponge up from Caliban Green to Deepkin Flesh; each layer is paler than the last. I'll include the full list of steps for you.
Bascoat the panels Caliban Green
Sponge the following colors, drawing towards the center or other focal point as they get lighter
Castellan Green
Loren Forest
Elysian Green
Nurgling Green
Deepkin Flesh
Glaze thinned Waywatcher Green (50/50 glaze/medium) over entire panels to tie the greens together ( GW glazes, but I've got a stash and one pot pre-thinned)
Sponge Deepkin Flesh one final time towards the center/focal point
Then it's brass for the trim and recess shading at the edges with Nuln Oil. Followed by endless trim highlighting.

I know it looks like a lot of steps, but sponging is really fast and you can do an entire titan's panels at once. Hell, I did five at once for my venator maniple.

Harvey Mantaco posted:

Well, let's hope they're a super competitive unit in the game so and worth it!

Mikey Purp posted:

I'm not sure how to put this...at least they look super dope!

richyp posted:

Mr Teatime posted:

Vallejo chipping medium question, why might the top layer start crackling as it dries in some cases but not others? I've got 2 colours drying over a medium layer at the moment and one is already forming cracks everywhere and the other is still a solid coat. It's not necessarily an issue but for future reference it would be good to know what causes it to behave like that.

Hixson posted:

I’ve noticed I get the crackling effect when I use more flow improver and spray a heavier initial coat. If you do thinner progressive coats to build up over the top of the chipping medium you shouldn’t get the crackling.

Although often times I’m purposefully making the paint crackle. It’s a neat trick

Mr Teatime posted:

I did possibly use too much airbrush flow improver with the crackled paint, I guess thats the issue. Do I especially need to give this a varnish coat after the chipping is done before working over the top of it? If it's been left to dry overnight am I still going to be activating the medium when I try and paint?

Mr Teatime posted:

Vallejo chipping medium question, why might the top layer start crackling as it dries in some cases but not others? I've got 2 colours drying over a medium layer at the moment and one is already forming cracks everywhere and the other is still a solid coat. It's not necessarily an issue but for future reference it would be good to know what causes it to behave like that.

Devorum posted:

I need some better brushes. I'm in Saudi Arabia, and the only brushes I can find are cheap Chinese brushes that just aren't up to any task.

Are GW brushes worth their exorbitant price? Can I order decent brushes on Amazon without getting counterfeits?

Here's my first batch of Stormcast, halfway done. I'm following the scheme on Warhammer TV, and it's going well so far except for getting Kantor Blue everywhere because I can't find decent small brushes.

R0ckfish posted:

For a break from 40k, I did some Donegal Guards from the battletech box set:

Funzo posted:

I'm going to ask a dumb noob question, because it's frustrating me. I'm thinning down paint for layers, and once I have the transparency I think I'm supposed to get, it's just a watery mess when I try to paint with it. Like, droplets of colored water on the mini, even if I try and wipe most of it off the brush. I have to missing something obvious here, aren't I?

Hixson posted:

Work in progress photos of this dude:




Decided to try out a couple new techniques. First try at NMM. I'm going to build a big dumb scenic base for him to hang out on