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Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

It's bigger than a space marine helmet. But it might look ok

# ¿ May 20, 2016 08:23

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 19:59

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Bassoon yarrick rules mate, good job

# ¿ Aug 28, 2016 07:33

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

You could but that's still going to be a lot of layers of varnish that might start distorting the detail

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 07:29

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

You want Coat d Arms Putrid Green. Coat d Arms is always the answer for that era of GE paint colour matching.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2017 02:04

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Duncan's painting instructions aren't the most efficient I have seen and maybe not the best if you actively dislike painting. He shows painting an area from start to finish which if you want to get guys on the table quick is not the best way to paint.

Basically you want to open paint pots and clean brushes when necessary, this takes a bit of planning. For example for my imperial guard I will undercoat black, drybrush metallics then black wash. Base coat red, bone, flesh and brown areas, the wash those areas with a brown wash all together then do highlights.

# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 06:35

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

4th co ultras usually look like garbage but your dudes look great

# ¿ Jul 29, 2017 14:56

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Just so everyone knows 'modulating colour' is called glazing.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2018 06:50

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

P3 Thornwood Greenwood plus a little black is probably your best bet

# ¿ Feb 11, 2018 22:09

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Stephenls posted:

This doesn’t seem to have garnered any replies, so let me ask in a different way.

Anyone know any resources for how to paint black armor in a sort of blanchitsu-esque way? There’s a lot of resources for doing black in the ‘Eavy Metal style, and a lot of resources for doing flesh and leather and cloth in blanchitsu, but there’s not a lot of resources for doing black that looks oily or beat to poo poo or whatever while remaining noticeably black and not greying out.

If you want black armour like in that video I would spray models a very very dark grey, wash black all over. Get a fine sponge (like from a blister pack) and lightly dab the edges with it. Test on some sprue to get a feel. The same would basically apply for all the other colours he painted on the armour (e.g.. scab red, black wash, sponge silver).

Looking at the video I actually suspect he has just gone straight black with sponge highlights.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2018 13:41

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

You dumb bastard.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2018 06:42

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Make a milliput slurry. Mix milliput together with a bit of water and make a paste, fill gaps and sand

# ¿ Mar 24, 2018 05:04

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

I think that colour scheme is really bad. Everything clashes and nothing is really coming together with it at all. Your admech stuff blows it out of the water.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2018 10:28

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Zuul the Cat posted:

Finished him up. Think it turned out pretty good once I took the threads advice.

That looks way better. I would be inclined to darken the blue a bit and add some orange in the recesses of the feather to add a bit of definition there but this is good.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2018 04:22

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Yeah a dremel is kind of overkill for plastic if you only want to drill. You're going to have more control with the pin vice.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2018 00:53

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

jadebullet posted:

So I just picked up some Stormcast Eternals and my stupid brain is instant on trying to really push the whole storm angle. Anyway, there are two issues that I'm trying to figure out.

The first is color. I want to try and recreate the stormcloud color seen here. That really dark purplish blueish black. Does anyone have any idea of what would be a good base color to try and capture this particular shade?

Also, does anyone have any tips for somehow recreating the wierd very bold, but also dimmed coloring that everything gets when a storm is blowing in? (I already plan on putting some blowing green leaves on the basing to indicate strong wind)

The second issue I am having is far more complex. Basing wise, I intend to go for a kind of cobblestone road base. As I am going for a storm theme, I want to model the units right at that threshold where the storm finally breaks and the rain arrives. As such, I want to have the model and ground showing those first, fat rain drops that you always see start to cover the ground right before everything gets soaking wet. Does anyone have any idea on how I would recreate these raindrops on the ground and model without it looking strange?

I cant find a picture, but to further clarify, I want everything to appear dry, but the first drops of the storm are just hitting, making spots of wetness where the individual drops have hit.

Thanks guys. I know my request is a bit wonky.

For the colour of the sky try out reaper's dusky skin shadow with a black wash. Cannot help with the rest of your questions

# ¿ May 4, 2018 02:53

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Paint them yellow if you want, just use a yellow primer.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2018 07:45

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

I think a few extra white panels would help break it up. The metallics look really flat it some pictures as well, like the ammo thingo on the turret and jets on the back look fairly flat. You could also very subtly glaze some panels with agrax earth shade to add some variation to the black without compromising it looking out of place with everything else. But looking at it next to the repulsor it really looks like an unreadable blob.

Also did you varnish it differently then the repulsor looks shinier?

# ¿ Aug 4, 2018 22:46

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Use a lighter to heat the tip and get things moving. Huff the fumes

# ¿ Sep 5, 2018 22:51

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Dont use gesso

# ¿ Dec 9, 2018 03:15

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

richyp posted:

It's not unusual to be loved by Gulliman
It's not unusual to have fun with Gulliman
But when I see you hanging about with Abaddon

# ¿ Dec 19, 2018 05:55

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

You could be putting down a gloss coat over the yellow then pin wash black into the shoulder trim recesess then block in the rest black

# ¿ Dec 29, 2018 22:30

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Mr Teatime posted:

Thinking I might try something like that for the next batch, I've also heard about using varnish as a sort of save point while painting. If I bodge a colour on top of a gloss coat what can I use to remove the mistake that wont go through the varnish too?

A bit of rubbing alcohol

# ¿ Dec 30, 2018 01:40

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

P3 Paints are fine, I have a handful in my collection.

Are you a beginner painter? Are you wanting to paint up things to match GW schemes or are you doing your own thing?

I would generally recommend GW paints to beginners, not for price or because they are better but because most tutorials surround stuff you want to paint (Space marines) will have GW paints. They are usually the easiest paints to find and the quality is good.

I've been painting for almost 20 years now starting out with GW paints. I started buying up non GW brands, having an idea in my head that a certain brand what THE brand to use. You realise that you find paints from all different ranges that work for you. My paint collections now is GW (Hex screw top to current), P3, Coat D Arms, Vallejo Game and Model colour and Reaper.

GW makes great metallics but I don't like their whites or black. Washes and technical paints are good.

P3 metallics are poo poo house, but there was a period when I would use their coal black on every model.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2019 03:25

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Racists are starting to self censor their loser flags

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 22:17

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Ilor posted:

Oh, is this the rear end in a top hat with the Confederate Battle Flag all over his stuff?

Yeah

# ¿ Feb 21, 2019 22:28

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Always priming black is soooo 2005

# ¿ May 7, 2019 01:49

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

I'm even more impressed after seeing these pictures. Even the Dreadnaught looks amazing. Apparently these are all painted with contrasts, technicals and maybe metallics.

# ¿ May 12, 2019 06:34

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

TTerrible posted:

The dread looks pretty patchy and pooly to me. The rest look good though!

A bit, but still a really good result for the amount of effort that would have went into it

I also think with careful application of those big flat surfaces you could get pretty convincing blends

# ¿ May 12, 2019 07:44

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

I played around with the contrast paints yesterday, got to say they are pretty great.

The undercoats are not satin, they have the same 'tooth' as matt airbrush undercoats. Definitely a smoother finish than GW's other primers, but definitely not satin.

The thing I like most about them is the ability to paint smaller details quickly like belts and straps and little glass bottles. Usually I enjoy painting the large areas of the models then lose motivation and rush the small details. But you can get reasonable results with one pass of a contrast colour on a belt or bauble.

I will post a picture of the stormcast I painted up when I get the chance.

Edit: one thing is the paint does not seem to adhere as well as the rest of the citadel range. I'm not sure if I should have given it more drying time, or if it is the primer or what, but it's it doesn't seem very durable. I was handling painted areas more than usual because I was painting in-store and didn't have my usual set up or sub assemblies so couldn't effectively reach hard to paint areas. I'm thinking if I could actually give the paints half an hr to dry in a batch painting scenario then it might not be an issue.

Big Willy Style fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jun 9, 2019

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 17:01

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Big Willy Style posted:

I played around with the contrast paints yesterday, got to say they are pretty great.

The undercoats are not satin, they have the same 'tooth' as matt airbrush undercoats. Definitely a smoother finish than GW's other primers, but definitely not satin.

The thing I like most about them is the ability to paint smaller details quickly like belts and straps and little glass bottles. Usually I enjoy painting the large areas of the models then lose motivation and rush the small details. But you can get reasonable results with one pass of a contrast colour on a belt or bauble.

I will post a picture of the stormcast I painted up when I get the chance.

Edit: one thing is the paint does not seem to adhere as well as the rest of the citadel range. I'm not sure if I should have given it more drying time, or if it is the primer or what, but it's it doesn't seem very durable. I was handling painted areas more than usual because I was painting in-store and didn't have my usual set up or sub assemblies so couldn't effectively reach hard to paint areas. I'm thinking if I could actually give the paints half an hr to dry in a batch painting scenario then it might not be an issue.

lovely pictures sorry, I'm on holiday and using my cheap smart phone for pics. Colour names could be wrong as well, I'm going by memory.

Undercoated with grey seer. I started with 2 coats of the voloupos pink to get the saturation I wanted for the armour. Then the I hit the robes with one coat of apothecary white. Then I did a coat of iyanden yellow on the gold trim. Belts/straps got one coat of black Templar. The mace is a coat of the balisicum grey, the leather on the handle is snakebite leather. The glass shard thing in his hip is a coat of the light blue (blanking on the colours name) Base was done with goregrunta fur and splotches of creed camo green. The leaves on the base are Ork flesh green. The base edge was 3 coats of black templar as we only had contrast paints to work with. I did a quick edge highlight on the armour by mixing grey seer base paint and voloupos pink.

If I was going this at home I would have painted the gold with metallics and the base with my usual techniques but would do everything else the same.

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 19:52

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Has the same problem with white scar. Almost like some particles were already dry before opening it. Haven't replaced IIT, just use Vallejo white now

# ¿ Jul 1, 2019 11:05

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

You can't make out any make up but they look real solid. Pink base rims are really distracting though, I would go for a dark grey purple tone if you want something that ties in with your colour scheme .

# ¿ Jul 3, 2019 12:04

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

JBP posted:

I get mid model jitters bad and leap to everything being hosed and me being an idiot. I added his other bits because you can't really tell much from the armour on its own.

Probably going to go for less crazy edges and then use this colour for light source style high highlights.

Looks sick.

Paint the skin super pale and black hair. Thought these were meant to be Not Lords?

# ¿ Aug 27, 2019 08:19

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

JBP posted:

I like grey hair so I've just been paintin' that way. Maybe I'll give some black hair a go even though I never like the outcome.

E: spookied him up a bit and made the paint thick in the process. Good thing GW ship you like 25 heads now so you can tool around freely.

I like it.

gently caress yeah

# ¿ Aug 27, 2019 09:24

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Goons should post their hobby Instagrams

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7SvzULBzts/?igshid=irm7rt0bwovf

I've been painting stuff on and off and taking photos of my work and haven't really posted here for a couple of years because it is a little bit of a hassle. I have also been going through my collection and posting pics here and there.

# ¿ Jan 14, 2020 09:23

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Paragon8 posted:

Yeah! he's just a fun vibe all around. There's a lot of great content on youtube.

Darren Latham has some great vids but it seems like GW cracked down on him making them.

What makes you say that GW is cracking down on him? He seems to be powering ahead with his videos

# ¿ Feb 15, 2020 00:35

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

JBP posted:

How's my blanchitsu? I reckon I should forge ahead with the next 79 guys... This probably took me 15 minutes from start to finish.

Its just all brown at the moment. I would do thr lower cloth dirty yellow or bone colour and upper cloth brown. And maybe consider doing thr skulls red for some contrast?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2020 22:13

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

That looks better take better photos next time champ

# ¿ Mar 4, 2020 22:32

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

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# ¿ Apr 19, 2020 02:09

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# ¿ May 16, 2024 19:59

Big Willy Style: Feb 11, 2007; How many Astartes do you know that roll like this?

Hiro Protagonist posted:

Does spray on primer expire? I have a ~4 year old Army Painter bottle I was thinking of using. It was already opened and partially used.

Dunno, but just test it on some sprue or and old model you dont care about to find out.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 00:10

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