The Art of War: Recognize your enemy, paint your target, thin his life span

Raslin

You're gonna want plastic cutters. An exacto knife and/or files would be really nice too, but definitely plastic cutters.

And also, plan to never have money again, just saying.

Descendant X

Well. My inner skinflint (and lack of stock at my LGS) has gotten me into another quandary.

I had an opportunity tonight to try out a wet palette. It was excellent. Problem is, my wife's hours have been cut back and I don't have $25 to use on something so trivial. I've searched around and have a pretty good idea as to what I need to make my own wet palette, but I figured that I'd come here and ask you lot for recommendations anyway.

Have any of you made a wet palette before? What did you use, and what worked best?

Raslin

I hear good things about just using the plastic from blister packs(like the ones you get for metal HQ units, etc).

Heffling

I use a cheapo tupperware-ish dish with a sponge and some paper towels. It works great and cost me about 2$

UnarmedOracle

Heffling wrote: »

I use a cheapo tupperware-ish dish with a sponge and some paper towels. It works great and cost me about 2$

I've had good experiences with a similar set-up, only substituting baking (parchment) paper for the paper towel.

winder

yeah i use a takeaway container with a sponge in it and baking paper on top, works a charm.

Nax

Altoids box with a sponge and wax paper. It even has a lid for easy storage!

Descendant X

Raslin wrote: »

I hear good things about just using the plastic from blister packs(like the ones you get for metal HQ units, etc).

Heh. Of all the money I've spent on this shit I've yet to buy a blister pack.

Anyway, I'll be getting some parchment paper from my mom today, I'll take a look for a sponge at my local grocery, and seek out a suitable container at the same time. I do have a metal Fisherman's Friend box I can use, but I feel it's a bit small, although it would be quite portable.

EDIT: Do any of you guys use distilled or filtered water in your wet palette?

Gabriel_Pitt

It really doesn't matter, so long as it's not actually muddy.

Descendant X

Well, I received my order from ForgeWorld on Tuesday and got the first of the two painted today. I think it's the best one yet, although I can still see places I need to improve.



What do you guys think?

Gabriel_Pitt

He looks like he's having a bad day.

Asher

So, I've been working on some Terrain recently.

First up, the almighty DEATHSKULL.



A little oddity from Dragonforge I picked up at my FLGS. I've been using him as a sinister statue in games of Fantasy where he has been hilariously malevolent. He even scored more VPs than my opponent in one game.

The temple of Skulls! (DOOM)



I grabbed this piece because it's massive, relatively cheap and can be used in both fantasy and 40k. Dead easy to paint with lots of drybrushing. So far no one has been game enough to risk a character by petitioning the Chaos Gods for support. Now champions on the other hand . . .

I've also been working on some stuff for my Club. I've painted up a massive number of fences and walls. (More Drybrushing!)


Now I'm trying to decide what to do with 2 fortified manor's worth of terrain. So far I have an extra tall watch tower and a Chapel which I was intending to bling up further.





However, I am considering sacrificing one Chapel and a level on one watch tower to create a Hedge Wizard's tower, like so.

Mad Jazz

Yes, that hedge wizard tower rules.

Mago

Very nice OP Raslin! I can hardy believe my BAs made the cut again.

Raslin wrote: »

It always makes me a little happy to hear people talk about how long it takes them to paint. I know I'm a horrible person for that, but I know my stuff pales in comparison to the really good painters in here... however, I can do things like finish three tanks in seven hours, and paint ten guardsmen in under two, etc. I may not have showcase units, but I comfort myself in having lots of painted mans at least.

I have always been secretly envious by how fast you manage to finish all of your projects...

Raslin

Mago, stop being modest. I would have sex with your paintjobs

On a different subject, I finally decided to paint one of my AoBR captains(I think I have three, for some damn reason). Still has a lot of work to be done, but I'm super happy with the white this time around, its coming out really great.

Asher

pics or it . . .

Oh you know the rest.

Asher

Well, I painted 2 Wizards!

Heffling

Those are amazing, Asher.

leaf

You can't go wrong with that wizards tower, and if you put pins or tabs to hold the pieces in place, you could still take it apart and have your two seperate buildings as well. I don't know if the colour scheme would work for what you have planned, but you don't necessarily have to sacrifice anything.


And Crossposting:

Ok so I've been trying to think of what exactly I could put into this thing. It's a hanging lamp which I thought could be turned into a reliquary, it's got that old-timey antiqued look. Problem is I can't decide whether to put some sort of sculpture that's a taxidermied/modelled weird creature thing, or if I should put some sort of 40k themed relic in there - and in which case, what? Relic las/plasma pistol, a marine gauntlet...?

It's 33" tall and about 10" across, with about 19"x8" of room inside the enclosure. I tried putting on twitter and facebook if anyone would throw ideas in and possibly 'win' and I'd send em something, but like one person replied so fffffffff.

I even thought of a steampunk computer case, with all the cables/ports hanging out through the bottom, and the unit itself hanging from the ceiling above the screen, but unless someone gives me an old pc I have no money to put a new system together.



If I were a cosplayer it'd be hilarious to mount it on a pole with an imperial relic inside it, dressing like a 40k preacher/missionary, and spreading word about The God Emperor of Mankind

edit edit edit: If you need some info about it, he bottom place of the enclosure comes off (and is currently held up by the brass tube inside which was meant for the lamp), and the corner filigree crest things on the corners each have that central bulge which is removable (could be used to attach parchment for purity seals?). The top rung is strong enough/meant for the whole thing to hang from.

I'm quite handy and can fashion a hell of a lot out of plastic, foam, sheet metal and paint, plus wiring simple circuits of led's, sewing, caligraphy (for Imperial Gothic script) so say whatever you think is cool.

Raslin

Pics, so it did indeed happen. Standard caveat, looks better in real life. I may work more on the banner and a couple small things, but I'm pretty happy, probably the best thing I've painted yet.

Slapnuts

I'm a fan of that white Ras, nice work!

Nax

I don't think I've seen a white bolter before.... I love it, though

Heffling

How long did that take you, Rais?

drama_

drama_ wrote: »

i *will* finish my "Gets Hot!" novelty piece this weekend and i WILL post it in this thread

i lied. i got distracted by alcohol and thinking up a new conversion.

Raslin

Heffling wrote: »

How long did that take you, Rais?

I didn't keep great track, I'd venture around six hours though. A lot longer than I generally spend on my guys, but a lot of time in multiple layers.

Also, thank you, nax and slapnuts.

Gabriel_Pitt

So painting ADD has kicked in again, and I've set aside the 22 Space Hulk genestealers I've been working on and decided to see how many dreadnoughts I've actually got (I keep getting them as random Secret Santa pieces - for some reason, people keep giving me walkers [no more penitent engines please!])

It turns out including the Ironclad I picked up when it was first released, I have 5 dreads. I realize that I need just _one_ more so that I can field a maxed out Dread-mob. And to make things as swappable as possible, I magnetized EVERY weapon arm they have - I cut off the arm pegs and used magnetic paint to give the magnets something to grab. Between magnets and pinning, every option on the iron clad is swappable and every single arm is interchangeable on every model.

Should I get the venerable dread model, just so that I have _every_ possible option?



Now I just need to make a Master of the Forge with a conversion beamer on a bike to lead them, and I will have one of the most ridiculous 1k point lists ever.


HQ: Master of the Forge
-Space Marine Bike; Converison Beamer

Elite:
Dreadnought
-DCCW; Multi-Melta; Storm Bolter

Dreadnought
-Assault Cannon, DCCW, Stormbolter

Dreadnought
-Twin-Linked Heavy Bolter, DCCW, Stormbolter

Troops:
4 Scout Squad
-Sniper Rifle x4
Sergeant
-Sniper Rifle

4 Tactical Squad
Sergeant

Heavy
Dreadnought
-DCCW; Storm Bolter; Twin Linked Lascannon

Dreadnought
-DCCW; Multi-Melta; Storm Bolter

Dreadnought
-DCCW; Multi-Melta; Storm Bolter

Total Roster Cost: 995

MrBeens

That white is really nice Raslin

Heffling

Well, today is one of the worst in recent history for me. At lunch time, my car went into limp mode for some reason. It disappeared later, but something must have caused it.

At the end of the day, a car backed into mine in the parking lot. So now I have a big dent in the rear passenger wheel well.

And to top it all off, on the Looted Land Raider I've been painting, I noticed at the bottom the paint was rubbing off. So I decided to spray it with Krylon Matt Finish before going back to do all the detail work and highlighting. And now it has a spider web/cracked look over major parts of the vehicle.

Anyone have a cure for the last item? If nothing other than strip and start over, then screw it, I'm just going to paint them up as cracks or something.

Sharp101

That models is awesome Ras. I love the cloak.

Nax wrote: »

I don't think I've seen a white bolter before.... I love it, though

Spoiler:

Nax

Sharp! You're cheating again!

It Burns

Heffling wrote: »

Well, today is one of the worst in recent history for me. At lunch time, my car went into limp mode for some reason. It disappeared later, but something must have caused it.

At the end of the day, a car backed into mine in the parking lot. So now I have a big dent in the rear passenger wheel well.

And to top it all off, on the Looted Land Raider I've been painting, I noticed at the bottom the paint was rubbing off. So I decided to spray it with Krylon Matt Finish before going back to do all the detail work and highlighting. And now it has a spider web/cracked look over major parts of the vehicle.

Anyone have a cure for the last item? If nothing other than strip and start over, then screw it, I'm just going to paint them up as cracks or something.

I don't think there is something that will remove the matt finish but will leave the paint untouched.

Heffling

Haha Burns, thanks. That's exactly what I needed this morning. Although it looks disturbingly like my land raider.

Mr_Rose

Heffling wrote: »

Haha Burns, thanks. That's exactly what I needed this morning. Although it looks disturbingly like my land raider.

Just ink it up with green fluorescent paint and say that's what happens when a gauss weapon scores a glancing hit.

WIckedkarma

Can I get some feed back on this test paint scheme please good sirs!
I think I may need to change the"glow" to a different color but cant for the life of me think of which one would look good. Its kind of subtle the way it is now and I would like it to be something that popped a bit more.





Keep in mind this is a test scheme and I fully plan on simple greening her and doing it over.

All suggestions and C&C welcome!

Toothy

Maybe you could to a blue or purple glow? I was going to say blue-green, but I think that it might already be. Your pics are a little fuzzy.

WIckedkarma

Toothy wrote: »

Maybe you could to a blue or purple glow? I was going to say blue-green, but I think that it might already be. Your pics are a little fuzzy.

Yea sorry about that. Its currently blue-greenish.

Toothy

Other than that, I think it looks good. Maybe change the collar of the cloak to the same color as the "undersuit" though. It looks like the same material to me, but I haven't seen any Ret in person.

Adellios

You could always try a yellow/orange glow. It might look alright with the green.

monkeylord

Hello art thread, I've been lurking for a while and had a question that I hope you beautiful people could help me with. I'm building a board for WHFB and 40k and I already have everything planned out except for one little detail. I want to flock the board so it looks like this: https://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m2030130_99229999065_GamingBoard02_873x627.jpg(or similar anyways).
The thing is, the amount of flock GW sells with the scenery painting pack (https://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?prodId=prod1570025&rootCatGameStyle=) is probably not enough to cover an entire 6x4 board.
So I come to you to ask: what is the best way to flock my board? I saw a tutorial on miniwargaming on how to make flock with sawdust, but I don't have access to such large amounts of it...

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Matrias

None of altmann's marines are decal-ed.

I'm calling him out.