Booley posted:

So far this looks great! The eyes probably need a dot of white to indicate that they're shiny, and I think you could stand to push the inside of the mouth just a tiny bit closer to pink (but that might not be worth doing since you've already painted all the teeth).

Booley posted:

If you're going back into the mouth, in addition to pushing it further to pink I'd try to get some very fine highlights of pure white on the fleshy parts, again because those areas will have some sort of glossy reflections from moisture.

Inspector_666 posted:

I'm still in the process of putting a "real" army together from Start Collecting and Forgebane but the plan is:

2x Dominus (Planning on magnetizing the weapons)

2x Rangers (5 man units, one with 2x Arquebii, one with an Arc Rifle+Caliver)
2x Vanguard (5 man, each with an Arc Rifle and Caliver)

1x Dunecrawler (Magnetized weapons + Heavy Stubber)

2x Armiger Warglaives (Magnetized shoulder weapons since they can't swap anything on the arms anyway)

Mars seems like it's still fine? I was going with Stygies VIII colors/planning on using that dogma.

If there's another eBay sale this year I'll definitely buy a Fist box, hell I'll probably buy one anyway.

For Infiltrators, math* says flechette/goad Infiltrators are the way to go, and honestly it just seems cooler than power swords anyway.

*1d4chan's math

adamantium|wang posted:

Decorus posted:

I mostly finished my Knight. Some light weathering left to do, chipping on the legs and some light dust effects. That'll have to wait until after the holidays.

Someone requested pictures of the completed heraldry, so here you go. To those of you who had some suggestions about the Ultramar sigil, thank you. It ended up quite different from my original idea, and incorporates a bunch of ideas from other people.

This is "Duty Remains", piloted by lady Menandore of Calth.

Improbable Lobster posted:

The only thing that I don't really like about the kastelans is the head but I've seen some great conversions so whatever, it's a cool enough robot

Inspector_666 posted:

Oh, I'm definitely going to get some, that list was just the stuff I literally have sitting in my apartment right now in various states of completion. I watched an AdMech v Blood Angels batrep on Tabletop Tactics and the mortal wound reflection proc'd twice during one unit's attack and the reaction from the BA player was fantastic.

Also I magnetized all of the Dunecrawler weapon options last night, it was actually far easier than i thought it was going to be, even accounting for the $5 pin vise I bought on Amazon being a huuuuuuge piece of poo poo.

Inspector_666 posted:

It's not just an option, the way that GW put the actual weapon assembly together makes it super easy! I'll take photos when I get home, trying to type out how to do it is just word salad. The only fiddly bit was measuring the sprue length to mount a magnet that holds on the Icarus rocket assembly/endcap thing, but that's more down to my own impatience and even then it only took me two tries.

Inspector_666 posted:

I figure having a unit that can effectively deep strike and immediately unload 25 shots into something (S3 AP0 D1 but still, 25 of em!) is handy as hell even if it's just a distraction for a turn.


Having more mounts would have been ideal for sure. And yeah, I figure since you generally want to run Dunecrawlers in pairs (at least) a neutron laser and icarus are no-brainers for the first two.

Cooked Auto posted:

When it comes to magnets it helps to mark which side should be facing downwards with a felt tip pen or something before you glue them on.

inscrutable horse posted:

On the subject of magnets, how powerful should/shouldn't the magnets be? I found a local online supplier, but I don't know if I should go for the neodymium magnets or some other ones.

Incidentally, for any Danish/Scandinavian goons, this is the supplier in question.

Autism Sneaks posted:

the beta rules for the Termite Drill and Secutarii were released, but surprising hopefully nobody, they're bad. the Red Scorpions chapter master in a Relic Leviathan Dreadnought was also going to be in the book, but he at least doesn't suck


hope is the first step on the road to disappointment

Yeast posted:

If you can get it, that’s Bering Blue in Scale

https://scale75.com/en/scalecolor-range/232-bering-blue.html

Yeast posted:

Hey me too!

I’m in Melbourne. There’s 3 retailers here that stock it on shelves, if you can’t find anyone I’d be more than happy to put one in the post for you.

Der Waffle Mous posted:

Having one of those times where warhams turns into a wierd math problem.

I have 40 Skitarii troops. 10 built as rangers (taser alpha, 3x arquebus) and 20 built as vanguard (2 sword alphas, 3x calivers, 3x arc rifles more calivers.)

now I'm trying to think of how to build the last 10 to account for now having a number of special weapons that encourages me to go MSU while also keeping in mind that I'll probably want them to fit into a single battalion.


edit current thinking is:

Keep vanguard squads as is.
build a second ranger alpha and arquebus for 2 5-ranger arquebus squads.
one big mobile ranger squad using the extras from above plus the two special weapons.
which leaves me room for a kataphron squad if I want.

Quidthulhu posted:

I used Stegadon Scale Green for similar coats on Imperial Officers from Imperial Assault. I don’t remember what I hilighted them with but the base color is pretty close!

R0ckfish posted:

I finished up a warboss, really fun model to paint!

evol262 posted:

Get a set of acrylic pencils to cheat the edge highlights

evol262 posted:

Get a set of acrylic pencils to cheat the edge highlights

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

There’s a goon who improved upon a mass production dipping style they found on YouTube. They did it for like 120 chaos AoS minis and they turned out really well for super fast table top quality.

He also did a test model for a kabalite and it looked even better. I think because the chaos dudes have a bunch of flesh but the kabalites are pure armor. I don’t know if they highlighted the kabalite manually but the model looked incredible for such a quick paint job.

evol262 posted:

Just to clarify, I'm drunk and I misspoke. I checked my order history and they're actually watercolor pencils, and not acrylic. Tutorial still applies, though. For anyone looking at Amazon/Dick Block/wherever, it's watercolor.

Specifically, I have:

OOKU Watercolor Pencils Arist Set - 48 Dry Coloring Pencils/Wet Watercolor Painting - BONUS Wool Pencil Canvas Wrap, Watercolor Brush, Pencil Sharpene https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XD318QF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_LYOLiMZ86B49u

Muninn posted:

I am absolutely going to try edge highlighting with those pencils. Which varnish do people recommend? I seem to recall Testors Dullcote being popular.

JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:

if you go through dexefiend's posts in that thread... it's incredible. Dexefiend is an absolute machine at modeling.

R0ckfish posted:

I have completed a trukk, I gotta say this army is a lot of fun to paint. It is like when I did the nids where I don't really lose motivation to paint which is nice.

R0ckfish posted:

It could be interpreted as such, I was mostly just trying to make a blue I liked rather then any kind of grand idea.

PierreTheMime posted:

Looking great! I'll probably have to break down and pick him up eventually, it's such a great model.

Speaking of great models, I'm putting together the snap-fits for Blackstone Fortress and they are drat impressive. Some of the multi-part layered pieces are particularly well done. I've decided I'm going to intersperse these models in between batches of Genestealer Cultists to break up the monotony.

Inspector_666 posted:

The only Blackstone figure I've seen negative comments about is the Eldar lady, mostly because all the spindly bits can get bent pretty easily.

I've seen some UR-025 figures for sale for pretty cheap and I might pick one up even if it never actually gets into a game just because it's so cool looking. I'll probably end up getting the Genestealer McCree dude too, for the same reason.

Badablack posted:

Does anyone know of some decent 28mm Wild West themed scenery? Gonna grab that new Kill Team board and cowboy it right up along with some outlaw genestealer cult. Already got a gallows painted up, cacti are easy enough to find, mostly want false fronts and saloon doors and all that stuff.

Gareth Gobulcoque posted:

I played my first game of 40k since 3rd ed today and got tabled super hard. Like he still had 900 points out of 1500. Kastelan robots wreck some poo poo, man. Good lord.

The only unit of mine that did anything was the tzaangors, which seem hilariously good for their point cost. Anyways, I mostly lost the game in deployment.

Inspector_666 posted:

The only transport option is the Termite from Forge World. The rules for it are available on the store page, too.

Inspector_666 posted:

Yeah, the actual Termite seems very good, it just comes with all of the usual FW caveats.

Inspector_666 posted:

The melta cutter is part of the basic hull, the weapon choices are 2x of either storm bolters, heavy flamers, or twin volkite chargers. Heavy flamer is both the most expensive choice and won't even be in range when you put it on the table so I guess you're really just picking between the bolters or the volkite charger.

Inspector_666 posted:

I would probably take the volkites unless you want to just make it as cheap as possible I think? They're just better bolters since you're going to be in range after you deep strike anyway.