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I finished a pretty long project I've been working on, the stuff I've been painting for the last moth has been for a diorama, and its (kind of) done! I'll put a couple images here spoilered, but I took a lot of photos of it and have a whole gallery here: https://imgur.com/gallery/cGMKk7P https://i.i...

I'm in the home stretch of making a diorama now:

Finished another lead marine over the weekend, this time a 1987 sculpt turned techmarine with a 1996 backpack from the previous Fabius Bile model. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/560075794068799499/849405166473707520/asd.png I took some inspiration for the markings from the 1990 "How to ...

Yeah, the date on the tab for this one is 1990. It's actually the same armor pattern, MK III, as the Iron Warrior with the hazard stripes I did. I'm actually painting him as the first of a squad of old marines for a little diorama: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/840332579483680819/84582350...

I just cannot stop painting little dudes without their backpacks.

Backpack went faster than I expected:

I think he's essentially finished. Still needs a backpack and basing, but I'm quite happy with him.

Very much a work in progress, but I'm having a lot of fun painting a garish rogue trader style color scheme on this renegade marine.

Yeah that's exactly it. You do base colors in acrylic and let them cure (at least 24 hours). Then you mix up a wash out of oil paint and white/mineral spirit. You apply the oil washes liberally and allow them to dry, and then come back in with q-tips/napkins/brushes/whatever with a small amount of w...

Well, I've finished the first step on that Iron Warrior I posted before: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/509027502904180763/838235295718965248/unknown.png Though I would not at all be ashamed to put him on a base and call it done, I'm going to try something new and try weathering him with an ...

It really is amazing how reliably moderately big budget and larger movies manage to have completely incoherent plots.

Yeah, they were originally Forgeworld HH models, but GW sells them as a general purpose plastic kit now. A lot of people like to use the MK III kits for Iron Warriors and chaos them up a bit since the older patterns sort of fit the IW vibe.

Yeah, its the MKIII armor. The Bolter is the standard one from the tactical squad box, a godwyn pattern bolter I think, but I messed up the barrel on it and in an effort to save the model without doing a lot of work, my solution was to put two new barrels on it and make it a sort of Bolter+Bolter co...

Well, he's definitely terminator sized is the thing, here he is with the marine I finished right after the forum went down: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/560075794068799499/832710325753086002/unknown.png As you can see, he stands terminator height, and he's on a 40mm base. You're right thou...

Not sure if this is even something that can be fixed, but the den just cant handle it if you try to post some Cyrillic characters apparently. I had to remove them from my post before it would go through. Edit: and then it actually did post each attempted post, but delayed, and with ?????? replacing ...

I'd been kind of in a rut, but I finally painted something again. Not super happy with it, but the result is at least fun. You see, I found out about Tehnolog, or more accurately ????????. A Russian company that seems to have been around since the early 1990s (or possibly late 80s?) and in the early...

It's used once in Beowulf, but if you bother reading the wikipedia entry it very quickly states: Orc, in Anglo-Saxon, like thyrs, means a spectre, or goblin."[3][4] The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal defines ork in the closely related Old Dutch language as a verslindend monster ("devou...

As people have said, it's a method for forcing frontlines of opposing armies to actually engage instead of shooting past each other and ensuring there's a benefit to being behind the front lines. There's also generally rules that prevent targeting individual characters below a certain threshold (cur...

Finished up that tau, mostly just basing. I think I'll actually try a v2 of this scheme soon though. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/725592558834810952/780697879228186644/unknown.png In other news, I really want these Doom minis now. https://gear.bethesda.net/products/doom-reaper-miniatures-f...

Really cool to see all your models, the progression from those classic ones all the way up to modern infinity. Also, honestly, those yellow marines aren't bad compared to some of seen from the era, and yellow is an awful color to work with anyway. On my end I havent painted much, but I'm working on ...

I think you're right. Either that or I should reconsider what color the 'cloth' portions are. Either way, I probably wont repaint this one, I'm just going to try for better results next time.

Worked on this guy over the weekend. Not quite finished. Need to do something with the weapon and I want to try out edge highlighting. It's turning out okay, but I'm not quite as fond of the color scheme as I thought I would be. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/560075794068799499/7783095107663...

My hands shake just a little bit sometimes, especially when I'm tired. This video has a lot of excellent advice for painting with shaky hands/arms, worth a look for sure, his shakes are pretty severe.

My only reservation about getting any Infinity models is that they're a bit expensive (though they're clearly great looking models that are probably worth it), and if I was getting something a bit more expensive than normal I'd probably actually grab some Solar Auxilia from ForgeWorld first: https:/...

That's a pretty sizable collection. Are those in the first picture Infinity minis? I keep eyeing some of the range, they've got some cool looking models.