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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Maaxorus to c/warhammer40k
 

Edit: picture is sideways for some reason, not sure how to fix it.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Maaxorus 3 points 1 year ago

Perfect, thanks dude!

[–] breadsmasher 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looking good.

From personal experience - don’t glue the whole Skitarii together until its painted. Helps get into all those little details cleanly.

Nice work though

[–] Shialac 4 points 1 year ago

But painting Battleline-Units in subassemblies is just pain 🥲

[–] Maaxorus 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Duly noted for the future, thanks!

[–] setsneedtofeed 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, it’s a little hard to tell in the photo, but what kind of color or feel are you going for on the robe? The picture unfortunately desaturates it a bit.

Some black wash on the rebreather would help. I prefer painting metallics over black, but for speed washing black onto metal works great.

When you’re doing troops, best thing is assembly line. Once you’re good at it, even a few fine detail paint flourishes on the models won’t slow down the work flow of a squad. I recommend double sided tape from a hardware store, and something to use as a painting handle. I get a lot of mileage out of Coca-Cola brand plastic bottle caps and large plastic juice caps. But anything you can get a lot of and that is roughly the right size will work. Using painting handles very much improves paintjobs, and using DIY ones is cheaper than buying a dozen Citadel brand handles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Your phone marks photos as rotated with a flag in the metadata. Lemmy strips the metadata off to avoid exposing things like location, which unfortunately also makes it forget how the photo should be rotated

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It looks like you caught a fly in a cup, didn’t know what to do next, so now the cup is permanent furniture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's because you live at the equator.