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WIP Secret Santa archives

>2025
https://imgur.com/a/I2xxkxJ
>2024
https://imgur.com/a/g7MfJE5
>2023
https://imgur.com/a/e9QOmJJ
>2022
https://imgur.com/a/2OWxHpg
>2021
https://imgur.com/a/TKfeLxU
>2020
https://imgur.com/a/TeduVrJ
>2019 Rebuild
https://imgur.com/a/YmQGN1S
>2018
[UNDERGOING RECONSTRUCTION]
>2017
https://imgur.com/a/qS7PH
>2016
https://imgur.com/a/1fxhq

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>>97445262
Very good, OP! I was stuck heads-down at work this morning.

I swear, if I don't paint something this week, maybe I can get some assembling done.

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final 3 members of the Amazon team painted. After the bases dry i’ll glue some grass on them, and i’ll paint the balls and coins after work.

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Gorath is all done. It was my first time doing a few things: black armor, a glass bottle, and horns. I could have made the stone tiles on the base a bit more interesting, but it's fine. I think my biggest failing was on the mace and I just sort of gave up on it at a certain point. I need to improve my metallic work.

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Texturing some cloth

>>97445815
that's too good a paintjob to leave those moldines

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Honestly, second attempt at making head went odd - it's still too wide and long, like first attempt (on the left). I'm not sure if to try third time or just vice up and use some pre-made one. What's your opinion?

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Finished my kit bashed penal legionnaire. It was a change nice change of pace to paint some ’umies after all the ork boys.

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>>97445922
Obligatory booty shot.

>>97445922
>>97445928
nice job, i think some higher contrast/deeper shadows could really make it pop

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>>97445922
he could penal me iykwim

good, very clean very poppy.

>>97445897
I think the head you did looks cute! I like the one on the right and the one on the left looks fine too but unfinished? what's wrong with them??

>>97445343
they have balls? idk if it's just the picture or what but they're really desaturated looking? metal and skin seems to be the same colour but just metallic/non metallic
>>97445737
Bottle looks great, cape looks boring, horns look boring. needs more poppy? like it's not bad at all but my general sentiment is just "that's neat"

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>>97445990
>skin recipe?

I wasn't really keeping track exactly but it's along the lines of
>purple, green, magenta underpainting
>burnt orange/dark red beige and pale pink mid and highlights layered over it.
There are some various mixes of magenta washes in between some layers and over-top to redden the skin when necessary.

I recommend looking up 2d skin tone rendering tutorials. They're usually a bit more straightforward than mini painting ones. I'm no expert but they've really upped my skin painting I think.

>>97446154
I could probably make the gold more different by glazing some yellow on it but I need to be finished with the project because I have a competition piece to paint next month. The team also isn’t for me and the recipient says he’s good with them as is.

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Kitbashing some Dark Angels, probably going to use them as proxy Nemesis Claw in KT.
Any advice on how to work with green stuff for their cloaks and robes? Its a bit infuriating. Hopefully they don't look like chewed up bubble gum once painted

>>97446328
use tools coated in petroleum jelly or oil
once cured you can sand it or use a knife to shape it further
for complex sculpts, it can be really helpful to do it in stages - block out a rough shape, then carve away as needed once cured, then add another layer with details

>>97446154
Have a feeling that these heads are simply too "heavy" looking for what will be melee oriented mecha with jumpjets on his back.

>>97445897
first I think you should rotate the shoulder armor so it matches the leg armor. second I think you should make the head look like a samurai helmet to match the other armor pieces you added.

>>97446328
After you flatten down the putty, let it rest and partially cure before you start wrapping it around the model. It will keep the shape better and not crumble and stick into a blobby mess like on that plasma gunner.

>>97446328
for cloth roll it out very thin, then wait 30 mins, only then attach and shape it, that looks terrible but luckily will come off very easyly
Watch a yt tutorial on GS capes or cloths, they are many and they are good

>>97446640
To be clearer, roll out a sheet and cut your cloth from it when cured for about 1/2 hr

>>97446328
this should be obvious but apparently it isn't because I see it on the majority of sculpts people post:
don't use your bare hands because it will put fingerprints on everything

>>97445278
How does it look, Santa? Everyone got their gift?

>>97446154
I'm not great with capes yet. The bottle is a bit sloppier than I would have wanted but it's alright for my first attempt. The horns I could have tried doing striations but I figured it was good enough for how long I spent on this guy.

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In honour of the Corsair comeback I finally built these Corsair jetbikes.
Cape is from harlequins kit and the weapons in their hands are from the void scarred KT kit. Corsair Jetbike upgrade sprue was from China.
Terrible picture but they are done!
My god these were a pain to build.

>>97446775
Ignore that anon; the cape is really good. Great contrast and 3D-ness. Not sure if the guy is as vampire or not but the cape gives me the vibe of free flowing blood.

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Working on some Underdark mushrooms. Thinking Im going to paint the ball mushrooms like bright blue and violet but I have no idea what color scheme to give the 'brain' mushroom in the center.

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>>97445262
Stripping some old crimson fists and making a 500pt 7th edition mantis warrior army

Did this tester model last night which has given me the urge to get the fists stripped


Won’t win any awards but it’s a decent tabletop standard and it’ll look cool when the rest are done

>>97447221
I sprained my neck looking at this photo please crop or resize it so it's the correct orientation thanks

>>97447295
Just put your computer wideways

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>>97447221
>>97447295
3rd times the charm...

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Me in this thread like

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a bit of progress on the priest man

>>97447255
Super cool. I love retro 40k, I’d love to see how this would look with a goblin green style retro base.

>>97447361
Very nice and saturated colors.

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Still a WIP but my Khazad Guard for my MESBG Moria army are starting to not look terrible. Still a lot of work to do.

I love that there’s 8 of the different unique poses. They have more poses than lots of current plastic kits!

>>97447361
Bro looks like he's about to have Frieren make him kill himself.

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I want advice on what color t make her base. The rim of it will be black...maybe. I was thinking a dark red to off set all her bright fire and to kinda go along with her hair. Also faces are hard don't judge me I did what I could and come feel like repainting her.

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WIP necromantic horror team (blood bowl). Looking for suggestions for the shoulder pads

>>97447445
Also how does fire look with a matt varnish? i have Vallejo's matt and AK's ultramatt

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>>97447453
I did TMM on the werewolf and it's only alright

>>97447445
Maybe some magma like tiles?

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>>97447458

>>97447361
Marvelous, I wish to sometime in the future reach your level of skill. What's your gold recipe?

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>>97447485
Hey thanks! I'm just patient and precise honestly, anyone can reach this level with practice. Anyway that gold is not finished yet, it's just washed for now. What I do is this
>retributor armor/ttc dragon's gold basecoat
>wash with a 1:1 mix of gore-grunta fur and magos purple with additional passes for deeper shadows and recesses
>reapply retributor on upward facing areas
>layer liberator gold/ttc glistening gold towards areas that would reflect light by adding it to retributor armor
>canoptek alloy edge highlights
I made this image a while back for a different anon that asked me about the gold, should help you visualize the steps.

>>97447546
Thanks a lot mate

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>>97447467
not a bad idea. it looks more like the flames just kept going but i think it looks good1 thanks for the rec. redoing the the fire elemental to match might be to much but oh well. A matt finish on the fire?

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another gobbo from last year's SS

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Workinn on some zoats, trying to decide if I want to paint them all the same scheme or switch them up

>>97447906
where are all these cute goblins coming from

>>97448107
We just love goblins here. Mostly twin goddess miniatures.

if I use contrast paint over a white decal will that change the decal into the color I want or will that not work

>>97448218
Do a test first.

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All done, happy with how it turned out. This is my first attempt at painting NMM, though I kept it mostly just volumetric rather than going for some of the extreme stuff I see competition painters doing.

I saw during an oil painting tutorial (recording of irl from 2008, not YouTube slop) where the instructor said he prefers and recommends using a middle value palette instead of a white/black/clear one. The reason being that everything on a white palette looks relatively dark, and everything on a black one looks relatively light, but on a palette with a neutral tone in the middle allow you to see the color relations better on the palette.
All this is to say that I think it was a neat idea and I'm going to try using my brown parchment paper this time instead of white. Not sure if it will matter as much since I usually don't put all my colors out ahead of time and just as needed, but I thought it was an interesting concept none the less.

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>>97448295
and here's the back
Is the thing about NMM not looking good on the tabletop a myth? Or does it only apply to the super advanced style with all those secondary reflections and whatever.

>>97448218
It should work, the only issue I can think of would be if it maybe has a weird reaction with the decal material and doesn't dry properly

>>97448307
no problem if you varnish first anyways
>>97448218
It'll work the exact same as contrast over any other surface. It'll tint all the colours.

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>>97445262
Damn that looks cool. You were working on the leg the other night? I've been building the rank and file guys from the Saturnine box.
t.purplecron

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I think this is a better angle, last pic was kinda blurry

>>97448302
You gotta tell us.
I personally think high level NMM is striking in general. Yours there is nice and clean and reads like metal, but I think it's partly because we know that's supposed to be metal, your contrast is a little low for me. For that style of clean paint job I would recommend going darker and lighter. Not into secondary reflections territory, just more contrast

>>97446281
Wow. That's great with. The freckles rly kick it up a notch.

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chorf chorf chorf. miniature itself is done, just have to finish up the base

>>97447361
3spooky5me

>>97447445
First thing that popped into my head was black with stars like she is in space.

>>97448343
I love the poofy pants and sleeves.

>>97448351
chuffed with this chorf so far?

>>97448302
nmm is a meme. if I look at your miniature I think "ok the sword and the breastplate are supposed to be metal I guess," but you could have achieved the same reaction with metallic paint. even with really well done nmm you will think "wow that looks good" at first glance, but then when you take a closer look you will think "oh it's just painted that way." there's basically no level of effort where nmm will look better than metallic paint.

>>97448312
Okay that what I will do then I have a red base> white decal> varnish> tint yellow

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>pov: I think I'm almost done and I remember the stupid little widget that I keep forgetting to do

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painting a space man

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I'm working on some extra spiky bits for the tonk, but I'm not quite sure where to put them. Post some cool chaos tanks so I can steal some ideas.

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>>97449090
Lookin' good, anon.
This one's kinda cool. I tried to find a picture of one from a 2000's edition of white dwarf that I remember liking, but I couldn't find a version of the right edition. This one is similar enough and probably way better painted though.

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>>97449110
Looks neat but I want to avoid putting spikes on top because then the turret can't turn properly. I'm set on the spiky bumper though.

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>>97449110
>>97449110
Although, come to think of it, spikes there would stop the turret from rotating. So maybe not a good idea. On the plus side that does limit your options if you care about that.

>>97449078
What chapter is this? I accidentally painted a blue and red marine a little while ago and I have no idea what I should call him.
---
I tried a technique I invented (not really) out on the shirt that I think turned out pretty well.
Question for people though, what color does the shirt read as? Not like a trick question for what colors did I use, just if she were real and wearing a shirt, what color is the shirt based on this pic?
Also I got the photo angle kinda wrong, but it's fine.

Just a quick final session to clean up some little spots I think and I'll call it on her.

>>97449125
>what color does the shirt read as?
man why do people gaslight themselves with this shit? if you paint something blue it's blue. if you paint something red it's red. it's not a fuckin magic eye picture where it turns into something else if you look at it long enough.

>>97449125
blueish grey

>>97449184
>he didn't see the pink in the shirt until he read this message

>>97449184
Context affects perception.

>>97449125
The shirt doesn't look white if that's what you mean. Considering the lighting on her skin, it's too dark to look white.

>>97449324
That is what I meant. I'm happy with how it turned out none the less, but I was originally aiming for a blueish-white rather than a medium grey. Staring at it all night makes me a little blind to it so I wanted a second opinion.

>anon mentioned nuln oil getting worse last thread
I swear it used to be darker before as well, now it feels like there's barely any pigment. I've had to move to tamiya panel liner because nuln oil just sucks for panel lining now.

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>>97449184
> fuckin magic eye picture where it turns into something else if you look at it long enough
Metamerism is a thing, but I don't think that's what >>97449125 means here.

Colours absolutely read differently depending on the colours that surround them, see pic related. The top and bottom images both have the exact same coloured rectangles, but they read as very different colours and saturations depending on the colours that surround them.

Src: Color appearance depends on the variance of surround colors (1997, R.O. Brown, D. I.A. MacLeod)

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>>97449090
mine doesn't have spikes but I'll post it anyway :^)

>>97449345
I've never used the old one and even I am convinced that it used to be better because of how often I've heard people say the new one is bad. When I started painting, I didn't get nuln oil because it was sold out all the time. But now there's always extra stock.

>>97449090
>>97449110
>>97449462
These are awesome tanks

>>97449520
No, tank you.

>>97449523
Dohoho

>>97449125
Wow, it's been awesome following your progress over the last few threads. Nice work!
I would've said the shirt looks white at first, but after looking at it for a while, I think it's grey and might be made of a fabric that's a little bit more reflective than cotton.

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>>97449090

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>>97449125
>>97449592

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>>97449125
>What chapter is this?

Anon is doing Crimson Fists.

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Got some more paint down on the little guys that run the rocket battery. Just gotta do some shades and finish their teeth now. Then I'll have to force myself to pick up the rocket battery itself and paint it.
How'd I do on the flames here? Too much yellow?

>just found a backpack that was meant to be on my secret santa gift
noooooo

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progressing

>>97449125
Blueish gray

Anyone that has any ideas of a model that is resting on a sword / weapon ( preferably with both arms). Want to kitbash a champion for my night lords warband

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would you sit in the sauna next to the cleanstealer?

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>>97450450

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>>97450269
How about the current Helbrecht model?

>>97450464
>m'lord if thou wouldst please unstabbeth they blade from the foul greenskin I can finish--
>[helbrecht cuts another ork in half]
>oh.

>>97450450
Sure, I don't wear jeans to the sauna anyway.

>>97449462
>edge highlights only on the LOWER edge of the stripes on the front
chaotic indeed

>>97447445
Black with bright in the cracks, like embers in a pile of ashes. She's called Phoenix, after all. And a dark base will accentuate the bright mini above.

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Need to paint the lenses, eyes and base these guys. The STL files had tons of extra gun appendages, but in the end I decided not to glue them because they'd clutter the model too much and would also be extremely prone to snapping.

>>97450782
>that bit in Pirates of the Carribean when Chow Yun-Fat goes "More steam...MORE STEAM!!" but it's a genestealer

>>97449321
ok and? some people are color blind and see red and green as the same color. that doesn't mean that paint made of crushed up red bugs is any color other than red.

>>97449458
the bottle of paint says "red" not "red, but sometimes pink and other times orange depending on what colors it's next to." if you had a real dress made with black and blue thread it would be a black and blue dress, no matter whether it could look black and gold under certain conditions.

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>>97450450
I think so, yeah. He's pretty cute in his own way.
>>97449984
I'd actually say not enough yellow, I feel like they're kinda too dark? But maybe thats just me
>>97449781
I hope this is yours anon because it looks fantastic!
>>97449125
Just lovely, feels so real!
>>97449090
It's really fun following your progress on this, the freehands are very impressive.
>>97448351
That eye on his shield is a really nice touch.
>>97448343
Very cool, I like how you did the red a lot!

>>97451677
Well, yeah, but the question was "what colour does this shirt read as?", and not "what colour of paint did I use?".

Anyway, not worth getting hung up on this stuff. Post some minis!

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Still needs the crewmember for the hatch (and more camo netting after the painting is done), and a bit of a general cleanup, but otherwise, it's ready for painting.

>>97451918
Chonky tonk!

>>97451876
>the question was "what colour does this shirt read as?", and not "what colour of paint did I use?"
which is a ridiculous question you would only be asking because of insane gaslighting. any normal person would think "I painted it red so it's red" and that would be it. constant second guessing about "but what does it really look like?" is not normal.

>>97451939
you're actually retarded, stop embarassing yourself already

>>97451931
Oh yeah, I wasn't expecting Land Raider to be that chonky. I originally wanted a pure MBT, but ultimately decided on MBT/IFV kind of deal.

>>97451959
It looks great. I love your little additions. Please post pics when it's done!

>>97451973
Thanks anon! I will.

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Third time is the charm I guess since this time I got, more or less, the shape I wanted. But had to make unusual connection to main head part to do so.

Last time one anon suggested to make head more like samurai helmet. While I don't really want to, I thought that maybe some Oni feeling would be better instead so I added some sort of fangs. What do you think? Would you also add some simple single horn on the front as well?

>>97452013
Oh, neat. With the fangs, this gives me Eva vibes. Is it for a mecha?

>>97452038
Yup, custom made with generous amount of polystyrene and Bandai 1/144 optional/spare parts.

>>97452069
Oho, I saw the knife and was wondering if you carved this yourself or 3D printed it. It's very neatly done, nice work.
I think a cranial horn would look great on it!

>>97452013
looking good, buddy.

>>97451939
Normal people don't know visual arts. Stop Dunning Krugering.

>>97449184
>>97451939
>>97451944
Rereading anon's original response to the shirt question, I think I understand anon's position a bit better now.
Anon doesn't want an explanation of how colour and impression can be subjective, but rather questions why an artist might want another's opinion on their work rather than trusting that the thing they set out to achieve was what they have achieved, in the end.

To anon: Often, when you spend a long time with a piece, you can sometimes change your approach mid-implementation, and often the end result is a little bit different than how you imagined it being when you set out. When that happens, it's interesting to get others' impressions, because that helps you understand if others see the piece in the same way you do, or if you've been looking at it too long and have grown too used to it to notice an obvious flaw.

You'll see something similar in digital art as well, where an artist might flip their image on the horizontal axis to get a fresh perspective on it.

Think about how you don't really notice small, incremental changes like how a child or a pet grows up, but if you look at a photo from a year ago the difference is stark and obvious. You could say that the anon is gaslighting themselves into thinking that the child or pet hasn't grown at all, but that's obviously false.

The truth is that it's hard to notice large differences when paint by adding small, incremental layers of different colours (it's not white, it's pink and blue and white and grey in various percentages), and sometimes it's just helpful to get a second opinion from another observer to make sure that the thing we're seeing is the thing that other people are seeing as well.

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Gonna do the base once my scatter mix arrives

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>>97452013
HORN! YES!

>>97451918
spiffy! I like

>>97450902
the faces reminds me of the enclave power armour helmet. neat mini, nice simple scheme that works. might wanna do a lil highlighting after the lenses if the eye isn't drawn to specific spots?

>>97450450
s-so are you gonna paint any other miniatures? or is it just this one?

>>97450187
lov these <3

>>97449984
I think the fire could be a bit brighter at the bottom?

>>97449462
>>97447361
I could eat this

>>97449125
Lovely texturing, great colours! always wonderful to see your work

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>>97448351
"I want my breastplate to have nips so they know I'm a freak"

>>97448343
are you gonna up the highlights on the metal? looking good but needs some pop

>>97447906
The sword represents the penis

>>97447458
add some shading to it. you still need to ... paint the metal?

>>97447453
very funky

>>97447340
purble

>>97446775
I was a bit mean. I just meant that from most of the angles the cape doesn't have anything interesting going on. looks fine from the direct back.

don't let me being a turd put you down <3

been busy lately so not much progress

>>97452209
scale model people don't ask themselves "does this read as german field gray?" model car people don't ask "does this read as pontiac red?" they know exactly what it looks like because they read the label on the paint bottle before they used it. this obsession about what things "read as" only exists because of some collective psychosis that painting something black won't look black but painting it blue will.

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>>97452502
you don't understand colour theory at all

the composition of the piece and the nearby colours greatly affect the way the eye will interpret colours.

please don't post anymore advice if you're that much of a paintlet, or if you aren't, at least stop posting intentionally bad faith opinions.

>>97452555
you don't understand that it doesn't fucking matter. if you paint something red it's red. maybe if you put it in a shadow it will look one way and if you put it in front of a green background it will look another way, but it's still fucking red because that's what you painted it. if you're making a real shirt out of red cloth it's a red shirt and you would be a lunatic to claim it's anything else.

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>>97452635
sincerely, suck my cock

>>97452282
This guy looks great. The horns especially

He's clearly just trolling, at this point. Let's move on.

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>>97452691
truke

>>97452691
its white n gold
theblack and blue was just a meme

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>>97452420
This guy reminds me of some of Ralph Bakshi's goofy post-apocalyptic trooper designs, similar to Blackwolf's soldiers in his movie Wizards.

>>97452691
yes that's the example I used. if you wanted to paint that dress you would paint it blue and black, because that's what it actually was. it doesn't matter if it can look white and gold under specific lighting conditions because if you subject your paint to the same conditions the same thing will happen.

>>97452768
this nigga doesn't paint his lighting and shadows

>>97452716
he's been trolling since the very fucking beginning, stop replying

>>97452756
don't listen to this idiot, it's blue and black, but it's catching the warm light in a way that makes it yellowish

>>97452794
if you paint your colors accurately it will look correct in any lighting conditions. if you paint them to look correct only in one lighting condition it will look right in that one condition and wrong in every other condition. do you move your models around and play with them in different rooms or do you put them on a shelf and only ever look at them from a single angle?

shut the fuck up already, craftsperg

When do we get to the laural vs. yanni part of the conversation?

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>>97452764
RIGHT!?! CHECK THIS

Knucklebones on my mini factory

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>>97445897
Kinda reminds me of the SupCom ACU

>>97452890
>Knucklebones on my mini factory
holy soul
thanks
>>97452935
glad that wasn't only me

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>>97452890
Fantastic!

Bakshi recruited Ian Miller to do backgrounds like the one seen here for Wizards - most specifically, the badlands of Skorch where Blackwolf rules. If you've been around since Rogue Trader, you'll find a lot of Miller's work in that book. He also painted the cover for the old Warhammer Siege book.

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>>97452420

I added red dots to the lenses and made the eyes now brighter.

>>97452890
Ok imma have to dust off my printer again huh

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>>97452935
Aw shit, now I know why first version looked oddly familiar.

Are there any alternatives to Retributor gold that are a similar color and coverage but a better overall paint? After trying other brands I hate how big the metal flakes in GW metallics are.

>>97453204
TTC Dragon's Gold is an almost exact match and it's a higher quality paint.

>>97453214
I seconding Dragons Gold, single best acrylic gold paint I worked with so far.

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>>97452433
>>97447453
I'm gonna do black pads with violet contours I've decided. Bright spot on one of them is reserved for player number.
I don't know how to make the metal ones on werewolves more interesting. What do you mean by paint the metal? It's purely Vallejo Aluminium.

May have drilled a barrel too wide, has anyone tried filling it in before or should I just roll with it?

these threads go so quick, it's been like 8 threads since I last posted something feelsbadman

>>97453507
Depends on how bad it is. Fix with either a slice of styrene profile rods, or if you can fill it use sprue goo, or greenstuff/milliput.

>>97453542
Chop chop, anon. Month is almost up and you need to paint something for January.

>>97452851
Jesus Christ faggot, we've had this conversation three times now. Stop.

>>97453727
you continue to keep making lunatic claims that defy basic common sense and get mad when I call you out for it. I won't stop because a lie will never become true no matter how many times you repeat it or claim that the truth is trolling.

>>97453877
See >>97452866

>>97453942
I'm not your boogeyman either

>>97453507
I feel you man. I kept mine as a memento of my first drilled barrel, and haven't had it happen since. But I told myself that if it were to happen again, I'd try to fix it. Haven't had that happen yet, so >>97453546 's advice is handy for me too, thanks. Yeah, Milliput feels like it should do the job.

>>97453877
Learn art basics so you understand what we're talking about, maybe you'll be less frustrated.

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>>97445262
>seeing my own nightbringer in the OP
conan was wrong, this is what's best in life
also did a thousand son today

>>97453491
> What do you mean by paint the metal? It's purely Vallejo Aluminium.
Not anon but I guess you could do a bit of NMM if the TMM is not feeling interesting enough. I think it looks alright, and the star of the show is the fur.

>>97453989
"art basics" will never make a blue object anything but blue. it might look like some other color under certain circumstances, but it will always be blue.

>>97454048
I think I'm gonna switch to this >>97453491 version of pads though.

>>97454074
Nice, I like that one, too. The purple goes well with the orange of the pumpkin.

>>97448302
I really only do time, but I would say the best way to have nmm work is to have simple, solid colors for the rest of the miniature. Ultra matte as well.
If I'm painting some psycho chaos warrior with ultra vibrant gear, hmm doesn't work

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Tokens and balls for the Amazon blood bowl team.
The bases aren’t dry yet but when they are I can glue on the grass flock and be 100% done with this team and get started on the competition piece i’m doing.

>>97449948
Are they really good at fisting or something?

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Almost finished Khazad guard. I still have to highlight the mask to draw more attention to it.

Idk if I should paint their gloves in the blue as I feel it kind of draws the eyes away from the mask. Maybe a drab leather or just paint them bare skinned?

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>>97452977
nice cooking good looking. ;3

>>97453491
I mean like, put shadows on it like a half assed NNM, whenever I paint with metallics I still shade and highlight them

that ghoul looks so cool. awesome work, great pallette

>>97454041
are those the 999th and 1000th sons? or is one of them the 1001st? they look spiffy

>>97454747
the crystal skulls are hilarious

>>97455618
leather or skin seems better to me

does anyone know where to get a silt strider looking mini?

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Finished my first mini, my attempt at highlighting kind of fucked it i think, looked better without it.
How do you fix fuckups?

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>>97455980
paint over the spots you messed up?

>>97456105
So you shouldn't try to wipe it off or anything?

>>97456139
sometimes I'll use a lil bit of 99% isopropyl on a brush to strip a particular spot on a mini, but only if the paint is too thick

>>97455980
I wouldn't worry too much about it on your first mini, he looks better than my first!

The highlights might look weird to you because you got used to seeing him without them. But when I saw this I thought "wow, anon was brave enough to try highlighting on his first mini, nice" and don't personally think they look bad.

It's also great to look back and see your first little mans as he turned out, I wouldn't say he needs fixing.

I would also not recommend trying to strip paint with isopropanol on a brush, personally. I've never tried that before, so maybe anon has got something figured out, but I think it'll still need some scrubbing in order to be useful and get through those thick bits. It'll harm the hairs of a non-synthetic brush (don't use a brush you like for this. I assume with the army painter starter kit you only have the one synthetic brush, but it's still not great for it), and then you have to deal with learning stripping in addition to painting your first mini. That's a dragon you can take on when you feel ready for it, and not something you have to learn or apply to every mini.

Speaking for myself, I've only done any stripping one like one in twenty.

I'd recommend if you want to tone down the highlights because they're too bright to you, thin down the base colour with like 5 drops of water and 1 drop of paint and give it a wash-over. It'll smooth the highlights into the colour that surround them, and they'll stand out less to your eyes.
If you thin down your paints more (one drop of water to one drop of paint works pretty well for me for the army painter paints, your mileage may vary), then you can generally keep adding to it as much as you like, and paint over mistakes without causing it to become textures or blobby.

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Couldn't sleep so now the battlewagon has a rokkit launcha

Anyone know of any alternate models/kitbashes for eldar warlocks?
I want some but I'm not paying that insane box price for 2 dudes.
Can 3d print or kitbash, whatever. I just haven't found an actual good alternative.

>>97456506
WAAAAGH

>>97452420
>Lovely texturing, great colours! always wonderful to see your work
>>97451736
>Just lovely, feels so real!
>>97449592

Thanks anons.
No new pic this time but I did go in and finish and clean up a few tiny little things, and I ordered some stuff to make a basic plinth since I need her to stand up on her own anyway, and she should get a little spot since she's probably the best paintjob I've done so far.
2026 goal was to finish 1 project a month, so that's the first one down.

I think it was a good move to make a point of going into this with the pretext of it being a practice model, and to move pretty quickly with her. Took the pressure off and allowed me to focus on the bigger shapes that make up like 80% of how a model ends up looking and not spending 5x longer fussing about that last 20% before even being that good at that first 80%.
There will be a time for models where I spend 50 hours perfectly blending every detail with a magnifying glass, but that's not a good use of practice time.

>>97456506
I love that, what scale is the tank you've grafted onto it? fucking awesome all round

>>97456504
>It's also great to look back and see your first little mans as he turned out, I wouldn't say he needs fixing.
True, i might try your suggestion for the wash on the blue bits because they're the most egregious and then leave him as is even if he's still a bit sloppy in places, thanks for the in-depth reply.
Now to decide on a 40k army to start.

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>>97449078
space man now with more paint

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Wondering if I should push the inks further and more vibrant, since they are going to get a black oil wash and then silver drybrushing.

>>97456891
You're welcome dude. Congrats on your first mini, always great to have more folks painting.

I'm in the same boat with Warhammer, haha. I'm going to do Dark Heresy rather than 40k, though. I like the aesthetic better and the Saturnine box is super flexible, you can fix them up as any of the Traitor or Loyalist legions.

I do have some 40k nids though, love those little buggos.

>>97456932
Woops, meant Horus Heresy*, not Dark Heresy.

Anyone have any good face painting/skin guides?

>>97456512
Rafail or Riverside comes to mind
I'm quite fond of Red Nebular's space elves, but their warlocks are very different.

>>97456506
fucking great, needs more duct tape

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i know im not really welcome here but im painting some trenches
every segment has these 2 light bulbs and i dont know what color to make them, was thinking yellow lights but green could be cool too

>>97457124
Why would you say that, any wip belongs here. We even get scale models sometimes and I dont think anyone aside from one bored shitposter minds.

>>97457142
That's right, since last month I'm posting Gunpla scratchbuild custom model and nobody complained. WIP is WIP.

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>>97457124
I don't see any lightbulbs and I don't like your attitude. You better be more assertive and more of a problem next time you post, or I'll get out the belt.

>>97456908
yes

>>97456901
why is the chest dongle and the knee both red? this colour scheme is weird. why is the thing on the shoulder a flat gray? why isn't the lil thing around the lense on the... shoulder scope? not gunmetal?

so many colours look like they're on the wrong spots??? I don't understand space mans. I see this all the time on them and it never makes sense to me?????

>>97456644
>lots of words
>no picture
that's nice anon, or sorry. If you don't post a picture I'm not reading that.

>>97456506
love this

minor progress? I'm pretty happy with these ones. I like the backpack and junk on this d00d a lot

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this one is GLOPPIN'

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>>97457124
rare terrain posters are very welcome
here is my current wip for testing different things

>>97457590
This reminds me of the little dude from Mad God.

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>>97457711
junk build gang gang!

>>97457739
thanks! I'm going for something kinda like that with the amount of weathering, but really trying to have poppy bright colours that are reminiscent of Wizards / Heavy Metal / other oldschool acid fantasy animations. As other anon correctly guessed earlier (gives big warm fuzzy)

have you seen Junk Head? it's like a weird Japanese action MAD GOD but there's dialogue. I didn't have subtitles on for most of the movie cause I thought it was just meant to be like that. Not sure if that would've enhanced the experience.

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I swear this isn't cum.

>>97457817
is that the sponge pensioners use to make flower arrangements from

>>97457124
You're painting game pieces, that's what the general exists for.

>>97457259
Well now that you say it's not for a game and it's just gunpla then yeah, here's a complaint.
But are you just going to keep posting it here anyway?

>>97457828
I'm not sure cum can replace PVA, anon.

>>97457828
These are the "I swear it isn't cum" wastelands?

>>97457828
Was this one session or multiple?

>>97457828
I admire both your volume, and control, anon. Your gf (male) must be happy.

>>97457833
YUP! I recommend really slopping some glue on it before carving/distressing to avoid (probably harmful) plastic dust crap. also some of it is random assorted foam I got from somewhere

>>97457883
but doctor, I am gf (male)?

I swear to fuck this better dry clear or I'm going to have a meltdown.

>>97457850
If I'm explicitly told not to, then I could stop. But /WIP/ is the only place where I can get some actual feedback and participate in discussions about techniques, so I don't really want to, especially since some people seems to cheer on progress. /m/'s /gpg/ is steadily approaching /wh40kg/ levels of shitposting if it's not there already, plus it seems to have less and less posters that actually knows how to even paint (if someone declare, being dead serious, that acrylic paints are "shit" and lament on being unable to paint since he can't import lacquers straight from Japan, I'm honestly worried). If I were really picky, I could cite at least two systems for skirmish wargame that actually use 1/144 Gunplas, as crazy at it sounds, given their size. But I get the point. Still, I stand on opinion that thread cover "work in progress" in general.

>>97457850
Fuck off, craftsperg. He's welcome to post anything here and I'll take it over your retardation any day of the week

>>97458041
Don't listen to the craftsperg, he's just a local retard. You are welcome here.

>>97457828
Dare you enter my magical realm?

>>97457142
>>97457585
>>97457711
>>97457844
i didnt mean to stir this much trouble but whitch one is better the yellow or the green one

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>>97458366
sorry i forgot the image

>>97458373
RGB LED that can change depending on what is happening

>>97458373
1 vote on yellow

>>97457585
nta but a lot of space mans paint their knees to denote their company, or have personal heraldry in the case of veterans. The gray thingy on the shoulder is supposed to be a stone medallion

>>97458377
valid idea but not going to wire a 17+ modular system just for that
>>97458386
yellow it is thank you

>>97456983
copy what garage kit builders do

>>97458391
I never understood that. Even during basic bitch patrolling/recon, you kneel a lot. Any stuff painted on your kneepads won't last long.

>>97456901
Nice face, what's your method?

>>97458687
It's just painted with a single out of the bottle skin color?

>>97458687
>>97458702
the secret is probably white primer underneath

>>97458373
With this color scheme, yellow.

>>97458650
This kind of armor is so bulky I don't think it can even kneel so it wouldn't be a problem, but I get what you're saying. They also mark their right pauldron with their company number or logo, and some have different shoulder trim colors for each company. At the end of the day it is mostly just to add some flair and to be able to get autistic about marking each of your space men "correctly"

>>97452013
>>97458041
Nice imperial knight proxy head you've got there.
Might wanna check out catwo on yotube. He's some sort of plasticard wizard.

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>>97445262
First attempt at applying some oxidation to my brass/copper for my Warp Lighting Cannon. I think it came out decent considering.
>>97456901
That face and skin is pretty good anon along with the mud/dust on his boots.
space man/10

>>97458373
Yellow, or both is you have multiple.

>>97459184
Looks good but person you should go heavier with the verdigris, and try to get some in a few of the letterings, places where they would naturally be harder to clean and less likely to be rubbed off.

More blood warriors finished. Another half dozen to go and this group (battalion?) will be done.

>>97457590
Makes me think of a kid improvising an outfit with a diving mask and a bit of tarp.

>>97459669
bro your image?

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>>97459674
Yeah, that might help I guess.

>>97459050
Thanks for reference, just checked this guy and indeed he is quite skilled.

>>97458687
>prime light grey
>basecoat, midtone and zenithal with three different flesh tones. i use the army painter airbrush flesh triad
>dunk in a flesh wash made of reikland fleshshade, TTC flesh wash and lahmian medium mixed 1:1:1
>drybrush with flayed ones flesh
>take pure black and pure white, mix them with your base flesh tone to give them a skin tint and dot the eyes. i suck at this part
>wash the eyes, ears and mouth with a thin red wash
>after painting the helmet bits hit the area where the skin connects to it with the flesh wash mix

I hate miniature painting
I hate miniature painting
I hate miniature painting

>>97460040
nigga just find a different hobby like nigga just walk away from your desk lmao

>>97460040
spraycan them sepia and dip in floor varnish, there done

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Trying different methods for painting beards. I am not completely sold on contrast over traditional dry brushing and highlighting. Maybe I just don’t know how to use it well enough.

How do you guys paint beards/long volumous hair?

>>97460556
Contrast work well as a base coat. You still drybrush/highlight over it.

>>97460556
Where dem dorfs from? I like dorfs.

>>97460716
Khazad Guard from MESBG

What's your favorite mini that you remember another /wip/-anon posting in the past?

Anyone ever had paints left outside in the cold weather for a long period of time? I got a delivery today and the paints sat on my doorstep for about 9 hours in 14 degree weather (-10 for you Euros). I just wonder if the cold would fuck with some of the chemicals in the paints or if they'll be fine once they thaw out in a few hours.

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Have to leave basing for tomorrow unfortunately but he's done otherwise

>>97446328
>Any advice on how to work with green stuff for their cloaks and robes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbDXu45DZ2w

>>97460556
Generally, contrast, then drybrush, then edge highlights

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>>97460801
>What's your favorite mini that you remember another /wip/-anon posting in the past?
Is this some kind of trick question?

>>97460040
Seems like you're stuck in the mini thread, better kill yourself to get out

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How should I do the bases to look like Spain? I've never been so idk what it looks like

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>>97451736
>>97452420
Thanks for the advice anons. I went and updated his flames a bit and I just painted the flames on the main rocket battery this evening. Mind that the area around the flames on the rocket battery isn't done, just the flames themselves.

I want to paint today. Do I work on scenery or character miniatures?

>>97461625
paint a vehicle

>>97461625
Scenery.

>>97455980
If the paint isn't too thick, you can just painting over the fuck ups.

>>97460867
the place where I used to work stored paint in the fridge. idk about below freezing though.

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Can anyone give some thoughts as to the steps you would take to achieve this kind of lighting effect? I haven't really done OSL on minis before but I love the way this model looks, especially with the orange and purple contrast, and would really like to practice this kind of style, but I'm not sure if this is achieved in the layering phase or if you kinda have to set it up with the base colors.

>>97461863
By being very good and painting a lot. Understanding light like that can only be done through lots of experience.

>>97460867
Some paints can be frozen a set number of times before it'll fuck them up. But generally you do not want your paints to freeze
>>97459678
Very cool lads. The banner and capes look especially sick.

>>97461863
it looks like they painted the lighting colours as solid blocks, rather than glazing the colour overtop (see the shoulder is solid orange with white highlights).
I would try to look for 2d art in a similar style and eyedropper the different areas of lighting.

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>>97461678
I was hoping to make a lot more progress than I did. At this rate this project will take ~6 more hours of work, and I am planning more scenery after this.

>>97461638
sorry I ran out of time

>>97461863
As the other anon said, this is a lot of layers, not fancy blends, and certainly not glazes, washes, or metallic paints. Masterful execution of a fundamental techniques, and a good understanding of light as well. I wish I was half that good.

>cooler tones on surfaces facing away from the light (check out the blue on the pants!)
>those subtle scratches on the leather cloak and hat
>the absolutely gorgeous highlights on the armor

>>97459678
Are they downscaled prints, or is there some foreshortening bullshit going on? The paint pots look immense

>>97461863
most of what you see in that photo is the display lighting doing work. it wouldn't look nearly as good sitting on a shelf. beyond that it's just painting warm colors on the torch side and cool colors on the other side.

>>97462394
I know this is probably just a bait post but you're not too far off. It is a good paint job, probably looks fine irl, but when you intentionally light it to reinforce the OSL and lighting direction it does kind of diminish the interest. I'm sure that it's still obvious that the lighting is painted in, but it's also very obvious the right side of the picture is actually just in real shadow.
But it's also fair to say that the photography is still under the miniature painting hobby.

>>97461863
Practice art fundamentals. This is a far more painterly style compared to most minis

>>97462433
Knowing where to put the right colors is vastly more important, and takes a lot more time to learn, than any of the miniature painting techniques one could learn.

Is there a place to find free pdf from some patreon ?

>>97462495
not here, esl-anon

>>97461468
plain

>>97462495
https://free-pdf.edu/patreon/painting

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Finished a test model for my Cathay army. Not sure if I should stick with this colour or not.

>>97462554
I like how the shield looks but I think there should be more colour on the model itself. I'd swap out some of the metallics for your red colour, I think the shoulderpads and brass/copper accents would look good in one of your colours.

>>97462554
You might be omitting this on purpose because it's a test model, but this would benefit greatly from a highlighting pass on the skin and yellows. and probably starting from a darker skin tone or doing another coat or 2 of the wash on it.

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And I got phone posted damnit.
Im so close to finishing cleaning up this damn avatar, all that is left is the pommel of the sword. This is the longest I've worked on a single model, I have lost count of how many hours I've worked on it but it has to be upwards of 80. I have been puttying and sanding and shaping and re-puttying it since before October. I've probably mixed over about 40 different batches of milliput to apply, the sword blade alone is 10 or 11 layers of putty by itself. I just made the replacement handle tonight, but its almost done. And I even got started on the base, made myself a cool eldar ruin piece, and turned a bunch of scrap into what will be the foundation for some hilling.

>>97461468
Sergio Leone's movies were all filmed in Spain.
Give them a "stereotypical Wild West" base.

>>97462385
Probably the latter. Now they are prints, and while I did print the bodies at 100% (some of the blood warrior bits were scaled down slightly to better fit their new hosts) I don't have any non-printed chaos warrior around to check the size against to see if the scan got it wrong. The base sizes are correct though, and they barely fit on them, so I don't see how the real models could be much bigger.

the space men march on

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>>97462647

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>>97462664

>>97462792
Perfection.

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whole team finished, time to move onto other projects.

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What should I do if I want to make the bases look like they're in a bog, without resorting to grass tuft?
I tried some stuff but it just looks ugly.

>>97463059
As a first step, try finding some bog bases that look good to you. Then try to figure out how they did that.
That said, the grass tends to be a major part of bogs, so figuring out how to get it looking good (different tufts, electrostatic applicator...) may be both necessary and fruitful.

>>97462872
sweet!

>>97463078
Thanks!
>so figuring out how to get it looking good (different tufts, electrostatic applicator...) may be both necessary and fruitful.
I never liked how "not-plastic" the static grass and tuft looked, so I guess I'll have to hunt for someone who did bog bases and shares this extremely unpopular taste with me.

>>97459886
Thanks anon
>>97458702
>>97458713
>(you)

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Getting started on a not quite stock bloodstoker, and a chorf.

Anyone know a good hobby knife grip handle thing? I'm finding after changing knives that I need more body and less knife or else I dig into my thumb

>>97463508
post what you have now

>>97462554
the colours look very aztec to me, could be something to that if you want it.

>>97462872
They all look they're dying of some kind of plague.

What's a good painting handle for holding miniatures while I paint them? Specifically something that can accommodate 19mm round bases (pennies)

I'm tired of having to hold the mini by the base or the head while I paint

>>97461468
rain on a plain

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>>97463534
These two, I'm used to the pen but it's chipped and old and the other knife's edge is closer to the edge of the body than the pen

>>97463735
there's this
>https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005007549880758.html
but with enough pressure it will crack at the seam
or this with is more like your pen and has replaceable blades
>https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005005478293197.html

as with anything aliexpress remember to search by image to find the cheapest shit, those are just quick searches to find an example

>>97463703
if your pennies are magnetic glue a magnet to whatever cylindrical shape you can find around the house
if not you would need a knockoff of the gw's one, or a 3dprinted one

>>97461468
Mediterranean scrub land, lots of bushes. Spain is unique in europe for it's rocky landscapes (but still a lot of vegetation) so I'd want to depict that probably. Look at google earth and pick somewhere to depict. Then probably buy some bush tufts (or make my own with some green sponge and tiny twigs or something) to put on top of wall filler to cover up the double bases, and sand/rocks.

>>97463775
>same pen grib on ebay for 15 bucks available for 99 cents
works for me

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>>97457142
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>>97457844
i made them yellow and i think they look nicer with little bright color on them

>>97463934
IMO that yellow is leaning toward green, go for a warmer yellow to make it still pop, but also mesh nicely with the rest of the palette.

>>97463826
yeah it's probably olfa branded (japanese) vs chinesium knockoff