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[Paladin777]

@appiah4 isn't the axe on that terminator from the old Chaos Sorcerer?

[Xenith]

On 5/16/2023 at 11:14 AM, happyslugger said:

The edge highlighting is a nightmare 

 

One tip that I got from the Voxcast episodes from he eavy metal team was to actually drybrush tanks as opposed to edge highlighting - you can see it's what the team actually oes on box art. It's a lot faster, and you don't get that tron look. I usually go over things with a normal highlight colour, then drybrush on an extreme highlight. 

 

Project "paint 9th ed starter models before 10th ed is released" continues apace!

 

[Blindhamster]

looks great!

[Jolemai]

Just a head's up folks, but with 10th edition arriving I'll be updating the Resources Page and eventually doing new Unit of the Week threads and Veritas Vitae articles in due course.

 

The Resources page will need things like new tailored/specific tactica articles, so that's where you guys come in. Mathhammers, tips and tricks, that sort of thing, so get to grips with the 10th ed rules (link included there and the 10th ed discussion) and absorb it, then help the community get something out of the collection brain storm 

[Karhedron]

On 6/1/2023 at 1:24 PM, Xenith said:

One tip that I got from the Voxcast episodes from he eavy metal team was to actually drybrush tanks as opposed to edge highlighting - you can see it's what the team actually oes on box art. It's a lot faster, and you don't get that tron look. I usually go over things with a normal highlight colour, then drybrush on an extreme highlight. 

 

Yes, I do that too. The good thing with drybrushing is that it is easy to control as you build up the highlight with repeated passes. Makes it easy to stop when it looks "right". Here is a SW Repulsor I drybrushed and it came out pretty well. 

 

Edited June 2, 2023 by Karhedron

[Jolemai]

Same, I switched (back) to drybrushing a while back. Models can look dusty though.

[Spagunk]

33 minutes ago, Jolemai said:

Same, I switched (back) to drybrushing a while back. Models can look dusty though.

 

I stand by makeup brushes to help solve that. Once you learn how to control them (I.E. how much pressure to use), you can get really good gradients with very little dusty streaking.

[Blindhamster]

Clever. And makes sense considering their purpose 

[Spagunk]

The great part is that you can just get cheapo makeup brushes since they'll be soft and you won't feel bad wrecking them as they're cheap as chips.

[Jolemai]

I'm going to wait until we have our Index before commencing the UotW series.

Edited June 5, 2023 by Jolemai

[Arkangilos]

Just scheduled a day later this month to do some models with my roommate, so I'll finally start working on my backlog and redoing some of my chapter's lore. 

[happyslugger]

Managed to finish my tanks and magnetise all the weapons.  Just started building the brutalis dreadnought (arms seem fine on mine). And I have tech marine, 5 heavy intercessors and the 10 desolators to build and paint before the 10th box drops.

[Jolemai]

Rebooted for 10th.

 

[Arkangilos]

What do you guys think of using the blade guard models and the blade guard captain model as company veterans and company champion (respectively)? I know they are primaris, but the company veterans can get shields and power swords. I just already have several captains and I personally see my first company captain having a jump pack or terminator armor (depending on situation). 

 

[Jolemai]

If it fits your force and you can differentiate them well enough from Bladeguard, then sure? How will you model the other members of the unit?

[Arkangilos]

2 hours ago, Jolemai said:

If it fits your force and you can differentiate them well enough from Bladeguard, then sure? How will you model the other members of the unit?

Normal Primaris ancient and normal apothecary or Sanguinary Priest. 
 

The Command Squad BG would basically be painted the same as my blade guard would be anyways, they’d just be count as.

[Spyros]

Watching the World Eaters getting the same detachment rule as our beloved Blood Angels...

 

[Blindhamster]

yeah kinda dumb to have them work literally the same tbh, though other things make them different I guess.

[Arkangilos]

8 hours ago, Blindhamster said:

yeah kinda dumb to have them work literally the same tbh, though other things make them different I guess.

Hasn't it traditionally been that way, though? 

[Blindhamster]

24 minutes ago, Arkangilos said:

Hasn't it traditionally been that way, though? 

They've always been similar/had similarities, but they've rarely had exactly the same rule.

[Spagunk]

It took way longer to get this done as I spent most of May and early June trying to get my son graduated but alas, here they are:

Blood Angel "Devastator" with Missile Launchers.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Spagunk

[Rhavien]

After trying a traditional attempt painting a land raider which just didn't look good, I tried airbrushing color on my first tank ever. I'm quite happy with it. Guess I will drybrush the edges too. What do you think? 

 

 

-edit-

As always the shades of red don't transition that good into the picture. The highlighting is more subtle then it looks here 

Edited June 16, 2023 by Rhavien

[Blindhamster]

looks good! block in some highlights in your normal manner and i'm sure it'll look good with everything else

[Jolemai]

2 hours ago, Rhavien said:

After trying a traditional attempt painting a land raider which just didn't look good, I tried airbrushing color on my first tank ever. I'm quite happy with it. Guess I will drybrush the edges too. What do you think? 

 

 

-edit-

As always the shades of red don't transition that good into the picture. The highlighting is more subtle then it looks here 

 

By traditional, you mean brush?

 

It's normal to feel doubt on a model this large and at this stage. Just push ahead with the highlights and any recess shading or whatever on the main colour and once that's done, it will all start to come together 

[Rhavien]

On 6/16/2023 at 11:55 AM, Jolemai said:

 

By traditional, you mean brush?

 

It's normal to feel doubt on a model this large and at this stage. Just push ahead with the highlights and any recess shading or whatever on the main colour and once that's done, it will all start to come together 

Yes, by brush. First some zenithal highlighting and drybrush ING with white. Slapchop on a tank basically. Then I used very thinned red paint to avoid streaking on the massive clean surfaces. It turned out way to bright, pooled into the recesses and didn't cover even after the third layer. Well, now I just primed it dark red and did some panel highlighting after a quick glimpse into some YouTube tutorials  it looks way better.