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I painted up some of my ‘every legion’ paint scheme chaos space marines. The idea is that I can play them as warband from emperors children or alpha legion or word bearers without feeling too weird about it. I also started painting my death guard in the same scheme, so I can share stuff between the armies (like decimators, predators, lords, and so on). If I had time, money and storage space, approaching infinity, I’d just have an army of each, but this is good enough for now.  I was originally going for a ‘bad guys from astartes’ aesthetic, mixed with a minotaur colors, but now I’m not sure. I wanted to use the sanguinary guard masks at first, but hoo boy, those are expensive as bits. I don’t think they look too bad. The chaos marine shoulder pads are really amazing for paining the trim and the plate part two different colors, but copper trim looked weird, so for now I have just painted them fully silver unless there is a thing on it. I guess I could try and leave the center part copper too, or paint it red like the cloth. I’ve been trying a couple of different things for oxidized silver and i think the best one is paint black and do a kinda of dry-brush silver over it. Just silver nuln oil isn’t too bad either. If anyone has good ideas, I’d welcome them.
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Snail Information posted:Has anyone ever seen or know of skeletons kitbashed as guardsmen. Maybe it's as simple as buying some skele kits and kitbashing them to be holding lasguns. It's surprisingly difficult to find model skeletons these days. The only ones I know of are the super busy AoS ones, and the warlord games ones which look very Halloween themed. I really want to do a spooky skele regiment of guards for halloween. I'm in the long and exhausting process of kitbashing skeletons and space marines. I'm using the AoS generic skeleton warriors that I think you're talking about. Most of the bits have some kind of medieval-looking thing hanging off of them (armor scraps, scabbards, etc) but a few of them are plain bones that you could plausibly slot into IG dudes. The rub is that you'll need to get into recasting, otherwise the cost of getting the bits you want is going to be insane.
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Sep 7, 2020 13:43
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Revelation 2-13 posted:I painted up some of my ‘every legion’ paint scheme chaos space marines. The idea is that I can play them as warband from emperors children or alpha legion or word bearers without feeling too weird about it. I also started painting my death guard in the same scheme, so I can share stuff between the armies (like decimators, predators, lords, and so on). If I had time, money and storage space, approaching infinity, I’d just have an army of each, but this is good enough for now. Get some Nihilak Oxide for the bronze/gold and some Typhus Corrosion and Ryza Rust for the silvers and go to grunge town. Adding over-the-top weathering has made metallics my favourite things to paint. Case in point: 
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Sep 7, 2020 15:19
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https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/09/07/cadia-stands-on-your-shelves/ So GW has now expanded even further into action figures. What's more interesting is the fact it's going to be funded through a kickstarter campaign that's going live at the start of next month. Oh and we're getting another preview stream on Saturday. This time it's about 40k codexes and how they'll turn out among other things.
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Sep 7, 2020 16:10
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If you look at that website the action figures they make are like, £165. It's pricey poo poo. Looks awesome though. In other news there's an online preview of the Necron and Space Marine codices on Saturday, so you gotta wonder how long until someone post the entire thing online anyway.
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Sep 7, 2020 16:22
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Communist Walrus posted:I'm in the long and exhausting process of kitbashing skeletons and space marines. I'm using the AoS generic skeleton warriors that I think you're talking about. Most of the bits have some kind of medieval-looking thing hanging off of them (armor scraps, scabbards, etc) but a few of them are plain bones that you could plausibly slot into IG dudes. The rub is that you'll need to get into recasting, otherwise the cost of getting the bits you want is going to be insane. perhaps I should wait until I get a 3d printer ;-;
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Sep 7, 2020 16:48
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Snail Information posted:Has anyone ever seen or know of skeletons kitbashed as guardsmen. Maybe it's as simple as buying some skele kits and kitbashing them to be holding lasguns. It's surprisingly difficult to find model skeletons these days. The only ones I know of are the super busy AoS ones, and the warlord games ones which look very Halloween themed. I really want to do a spooky skele regiment of guards for halloween. How about these bad bois as a source of bits? https://store.warlordgames.com/products/skeleton-warriors
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Sep 7, 2020 17:02
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I feel like they look terribly goofy but 24 of them is good value
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Communist Walrus posted:I'm in the long and exhausting process of kitbashing skeletons and space marines. I'm using the AoS generic skeleton warriors that I think you're talking about. Most of the bits have some kind of medieval-looking thing hanging off of them (armor scraps, scabbards, etc) but a few of them are plain bones that you could plausibly slot into IG dudes. The rub is that you'll need to get into recasting, otherwise the cost of getting the bits you want is going to be insane. How are you putting the bolters into their boney hands?
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Sep 7, 2020 20:47
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Snail Information posted:Has anyone ever seen or know of skeletons kitbashed as guardsmen. Maybe it's as simple as buying some skele kits and kitbashing them to be holding lasguns. It's surprisingly difficult to find model skeletons these days. The only ones I know of are the super busy AoS ones, and the warlord games ones which look very Halloween themed. I really want to do a spooky skele regiment of guards for halloween. I don't know if they'd be suitable for kitbashing into guardsmen but Runewars box sets are still going for less than 30 bucks and you get two dozen skeletons in the box- even if all you did was use the skulls you'd still be better off than buying the GW skull bits box edit: I dug through my minis and the archers are probably easily converted to guardsmen aiming rifles, I think you get 12 per box set which isn't bad for $28 considering you also get everything else in the box Even if all you're doing with it is using it for donor bits, it's the best deal in miniatures right now and I feel like nobody knows   snip the bow edit 2: wait no you snip the arrows and repaint the quiver as a rocket launcher (or snip some and combine into backpacks etc) Mirthless fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Sep 7, 2020 |
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Sep 7, 2020 20:56
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/09/07/cadia-stands-on-your-shelves/ It seems like GW is taking the same tactic with licensing consumer products that they did with licensing video games. Which is to avoid exclusivity deals and license to as many developers as they can. This was seen as a huge gamble when they started doing it, but it's been paying off for them, most video games that have come out lately have been successful to some degree, and it's quickly expanding the reach of their IP beyond the typical tabletop nerds they've always courted in the past. Hopefully this will have the same results, I want Ghazghkull plushies and Space Marine stompy slippers...
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Sep 7, 2020 21:00
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A sequel to space marine would fuckin rule.
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Sep 7, 2020 21:05
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New kitties! 
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Snail Information posted:How are you putting the bolters into their boney hands? For some of them the arm/hand armor hasn't rotted away, so they still have their usual space marine hands. For others, I snagged a set of skeleton hands from Anvil Industries that has ones in the relevant poses.
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Sep 7, 2020 22:24
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Just bury your Cadians in the yard, then dig them up when they have naturally decomposed to the desired state.
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Sep 7, 2020 22:49
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Ashcans posted:Just bury your Cadians in the yard, then dig them up when they have naturally decomposed to the desired state. Planets exploding doesn’t leave much to decompose.
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Sep 7, 2020 23:09
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Necromunda: Underhive Wars is out now on Steam.
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Bucnasti posted:Hopefully this will have the same results, I want Ghazghkull plushies and Space Marine stompy slippers... They really missed the boat with respirators and masks. Imagine the 40k pandemic merch.
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   a friend thought I should try for some roots and the reindeer moss I have seems to work both for roots and vines. I will probably have to paint over the vines and roots once it's all glued because it's not looking too hot right now but that should be easy enough I will probably end up making this the main theme of my necron army if I can stick with it, it's not that much harder than any other step aside from having to work with lots and lots of super glue. I think I might put some birds on the big guy in the box if I can find some in the right scale (edit: aaaaaand i did, haha, i am definitely gonna put a bird on some of these when those get here) Mirthless fucked around with this message at 01:37 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Sep 8, 2020 01:10
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I absolutely love the leafy necrons Mosscrons? Grasscron? Dunno what to call em but they're neat as hell
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Sep 8, 2020 02:22
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Reminds me of the robots from Castle in the Sky in a much darker way of course.
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Sep 8, 2020 02:30
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 First five done, gotta do some touch-up and basing still but I'm happy with the moss patterns on these DandyLion posted:Reminds me of the robots from Castle in the Sky in a much darker way of course. Yeah! This is exactly what I was going for, actually. I'm calling them the "Laputian Dynasty" in my head right now until I settle on something better right now, my headcanon fluff for my army is that before they went into stasis, they infected themselves with a virus meant to gradually turn their skeletal bodies into organic material and encourage botanical growth, as a counter to the flayed one virus. Since I'm doing my custom model as a flayed one, I thought I'd have a unit or two that had been seperated out by locals and turned into decorations or furniture in the interim period only to come to life and stich themselves back together with some colonists edit:  (have to fix the eyes on the middle guy) The moss dangles on the back on a couple of these guys, when I get the basing done I'll do some more complete pictures. I still have a royal warden and the scarabs from my recruit box and then on to my indomitus stuff Mirthless fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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Sep 8, 2020 03:04
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Z the IVth posted:They really missed the boat with respirators and masks. Imagine the 40k pandemic merch. Something like this printed on a facemask. 
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Z the IVth posted:They really missed the boat with respirators and masks. Imagine the 40k pandemic merch. Yea I was thinking this, I would totally have bought a 40k style printed mask.
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Ashcans posted:Yea I was thinking this, I would totally have bought a 40k style printed mask. Same, but it would probably be some garbage two-layer non-fitting thing like all the other branded masks I really wanted.  More Thousand Sons:  I'm still not sure how much silver I want on the regular Rubric Marines. I might make at least the pauldrons gold for some contrast. Nothing But Hate posted:Tried painting some scarabs, it was... frustrating What was frustrating about them? The glow? Which looks great btw. The most frustrating part for me was trying to add the basing after putting them on and painting them. I was thinking about putting down a layer of Astrogranite Debris and then pushing them into that while it's still wet. It might make the scarabs look like they're crawling out of the ground. But I don't intend to use them so I didn't work too hard.
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Ashcans posted:Yea I was thinking this, I would totally have bought a 40k style printed mask. This is 100000% unlicensed AliExpress hilarity but: C$ 10.47 40%OFF | Sergeant Helmet Non-Disposable Face Mask Star Wars Imperial Stormtrooper Anti Dustproof Mask Protection Respirator https://a.aliexpress.com/_mq1BNen
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So I last posted in like May. The reason was I moved and haven't done much painting, it has picked up a bit though. I basically did not paint in May or June as we were doing house stuff, as of July though this is my new dedicated Hamspace: I have enough space to run a small RTT when the country opens back up. This photo doesn't do it justice, I could put 4 tables in at the new size with space to spare. This is the perk to flyover states.  I set up a display case. I also posted about my experience with a "not a detolf" on Goonhammer.  Despite the great ikea table leg shortage of 2020, I expanded my painting area to have a dedicated airbrushing space. This is a massive quality of life improvement. Previously I had my airbrush set up in my parents' basement, meaning I had to drive a half hour to use it. I used that space to paint three dudes in July and early August:  Don't judge, I have a time consuming process. I also painted a couple pieces of terrain and started the remainder of the squad. Oh, I also knocked out these guys in 35 days:   The goal was to have an away team for teaching folks how to play and also to force myself to speed paint something rather than having literally every model be a 10 hour project. These guys with batchpainting probably averaged 40 min a model. There's a ton of stuff I'd like to get all anal about and dive in for hours but that IS NOT THE POINT and I WILL NOT DO THAT SHUT UP, SUBCONSCIOUS. Basically it's a slightly busier version of the new scheme, I wanted to have a bit more of a visual interest to them as I liked the base scheme but found it a little dull. Eifert Posting fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Sep 8, 2020 |
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This former armor crewman just weeps at how bad the design of that suspension is. You did a beautiful job painting them.
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So, I'm wanting to paint some T'au in a different color scheme because I really love the color. Problem is, it's not a normal tone, and I'm not experienced/knowledgeable enough in paint mixing to do this on my own. So I thought I'd ask my Goon brothers! The color in question is Dark Slate Gray (#2F4F4F). Two questions: How would ya'll go about coming up with a way to get the actual color in question (mixing paints, or maybe a color matching place to get the paint in a pot?) and what colors do you think would compliment it for all the gribblies and other bits. I'd love your opinions and thoughts.
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Tanon posted:So, I'm wanting to paint some T'au in a different color scheme because I really love the color. Problem is, it's not a normal tone, and I'm not experienced/knowledgeable enough in paint mixing to do this on my own. So I thought I'd ask my Goon brothers! Says here that there's a Vallejo Model Air that matches 2F4F4F: https://www.scalemates.com/colors/vallejo-model-air--763/71309-dark-slate-grey-bs634-acrylic-matt--12109 I really like their air and game air line in general, even for just brushing on - just pretend it's pre thinned
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BaronVanAwesome posted:Says here that there's a Vallejo Model Air that matches 2F4F4F: Thank you! Any thoughts on what might be some good compliments?
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Tanon posted:Thank you! Any thoughts on what might be some good compliments? Depends on what you're going for. Are your Tau on an icy planet spreading the greater good? Are they on one of their own capital ships being besieged by ork pirates? Tell a story through your painting and basing, then choose colors accordingly. So light blue armor with grey fatigues on the fire warriors to give an icy feel? Or red fatigues with grey armor to show that they're part of the farsight enclaves? Or neon pink with the grey to show that they're in a future punk cityscape or whatever. Tell a story!
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LifeLynx posted:What was frustrating about them? The glow? Which looks great btw. The most frustrating part for me was trying to add the basing after putting them on and painting them. I was thinking about putting down a layer of Astrogranite Debris and then pushing them into that while it's still wet. It might make the scarabs look like they're crawling out of the ground. But I don't intend to use them so I didn't work too hard. Thanks! It’s just frustrating because I’m an absolute novice and the details are so tiny (and stray bristles on my brushes were driving me crazy), I’m not sure why but I found the warrior a bit easier/more enjoyable to paint.
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Eifert Posting posted:So I last posted in like May. The reason was I moved and haven't done much painting, it has picked up a bit though. I basically did not paint in May or June as we were doing house stuff, as of July though this is my new dedicated Hamspace: I'm more jealous of your hamcave than your painting, and I'm really jealous of your painting. Yeah I've found it hard not to make every model a 10 hour project also. I keep finding little bits I missed or would like to tidy up, but I have to remember that nothing's perfect and these things are going to be seen from at least two feet away anyway.
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LifeLynx posted:I'm more jealous of your hamcave than your painting, and I'm really jealous of your painting. Yeah I've found it hard not to make every model a 10 hour project also. I keep finding little bits I missed or would like to tidy up, but I have to remember that nothing's perfect and these things are going to be seen from at least two feet away anyway. I have been trying to justify this to myself with "well i'm not gonna be playing against anyone with these dudes anytime soon, so I might as well take my time" but also I am building armies right now, and I just don't have the time or patience to do display quality models for an entire army. I do the occasionally one off display quality, but otherwise an army just needs a few base coats, a shade, and edge highlights, and they are good.
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https://twitter.com/Neon_Goblin/status/1303462738140819457?s=20 I painted something. He's a tiny big boi with a big gun.
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I said come in! posted:I have been trying to justify this to myself with "well i'm not gonna be playing against anyone with these dudes anytime soon, so I might as well take my time" I have this problem for sure, even though I likely will never play a single game of 40k(or at least not any time soon) the idea of an actually fully painted army is enticing. But between the speed I paint and how often I actually sit down and do it, I get maybe one model finished a week, usually less. My other issue is finishing that last 5% on models, the tiny details that are "fine" to leave partially completed, like doing the text/symbols on purity seals. I end up moving on to another project and tell myself I'll get around to it eventually.
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Are Grey Knights getting new minis or something? Seems like they've been completely out of stock on GW's store for a good while now and with all the space marine scale creep they definitely look a little dainty now. I kinda want to make a GK Kill Team that I can work on until there's ever an opportunity to play again, but I don't want to be finishing them off right as a new line drops.
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Everythings out of stock, their pipeline is proper hosed from covid so don't assume any out of stocks are a new sculpt. At best they're getting a new box with updated datasheet for 9th
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