i'm painting 40k figures

[Sinitron]

IMPERIAL GUARDSMEN

i should proly have pictures before making the thread but i don't have a camera on hand atm

anyway i doubt you COMPUTER NERDS can grasp such a delicate and integral part of NERD HISTORY as TABLE-TOP WARGAMING truly is (i don't know how to play i just like the figures LOL)

EDIT: ok here are some awful pictures because the camera i borrowed sucked pig dick and the blitz was shitty

[cipher]

I played Warhammer fantasy for a few years


and by played I mean I just painted the figures

[Sinitron]

I played Warhammer fantasy for a few years


and by played I mean I just painted the figures

i got some chaos knights once

out of a box of 12 i only painted 6 because i spent like 2-3 days on each or w/e

now i'm trying to paint the guardsmen in batches because IG armies are fucking huge

i started out with 1 guardsman as a test, then 3 using the color scheme i want, and now 5 at once

i just drybrush fucking everything and then pick out a few details and it looks alright (though i'm not 'eavy metal material) it's better than some of the shit i saw on display in the stores i've been to BUT THEN AGAIN who would willingly part with their most exquisite works even for a short time

you need a minimum of 25 troops if you go with a single HQ squad and 2 veteran squads, for normal platoons and conscripts you need like 20-50 per platoon in addition to command structure

i'm aiming to make a functional army of sorts with 1 HQ squad, 1 storm trooper squad, 1 infantry platoon (minimum 25 models), 1 veteran squad represented with steel legionnaires and 2 sentinel squads (1 scout squad and 1 armored) then expand with some more stuff once that is done

in total that's about 50 infantry models and 6 sentinels for a still fairly bare boned army, i chose to skip tanks for now since i can practise painting vehicles with the sentinels without screwing up a far more expensive kit, i've finished one already though and it turned out satisfactory

[BluPhoenix]

anyway i doubt you COMPUTER NERDS can grasp such a delicate and integral part of NERD HISTORY as TABLE-TOP WARGAMING truly is

you dare fuck a 4 star tabletop general???

[Sinitron]

dude why aren't you a 4-star starcraft general yet WTF

[BluPhoenix]

that would be detrimental to my hygiene

[creamcorn]

i played Risk once LOL

[Necronomitr0n]

what the hell is 40k even about

[Sinitron]

storywise, big human empire with eternal god-emperor vegetable fighting on all fronts against aliens, traitors, and other religions, who also fight amongst themselves

on the tabletop, you just pick a cool army, spend 5000 dollars, and roll some dice to see if your cool army can kill the other guys' less cool armies (because they aren't yours so they have to be lame)

back home, it means dedicating a desk/room/floor to tons of junk like paints, glues, brushes, tools, spare kits, basing, sprays for undercoating, some bright lamps and hopefully a fan or something to ventilate your room (big open window is a huge advantage here) so your brain doesn't melt and come gushing out your nostrils

it's a bit like making shitty flash for newgrounds but more expensive and nobody else will see your atrocious artistic skills

[Sinitron]

i posted pics

bad ones but w/e

[Sinitron]

better pics of the sentinel and steel legion guys

[Ashington]

looking at them now they resemble conscripts from red alert 2 with faces like duke nukems

[Necronomitr0n]

bitchin'

[put]

heh battle of the bulge

[emanhattan]

i think these are pretty cool! never played these games though

[cipher]

all the figures are grey before you paint them (or silver if they're metal).

[BluPhoenix]

heh battle of the bulge

[Sinitron]

what do these look like before you paint them?

i rememeber some people used to play this table top game that was basically a giant hill and plains with mountains and a volcano. the game board was gigantic and took up like 2 full tables in this tiny store.

all the figures are grey before you paint them (or silver if they're metal).

yeah you buy them in pieces usually, clean them up and assemble them

the plastic ones come on big sprues and you have to carefully remove them with a clipper or a knife, then remove residue around the edges from the molding process, while the metal ones usually just have like these little knobs or whatever which you need to clip off

i also like working with 'green stuff', which is a sort of putty you can use to model additional details and shit, i have a whole ton of it and i want to practise using it so i can make something cool, some really good people can sculpt really cool stuff with it

i wont be able to paint more for a while because of work but im going to get more black undercoat, purity seal (preferably matte) and a few other minor things like new clippers

im trying to figure out how to base them, too, the easiest would be some kind of desert bullshit but idk

i also want to make a cool KOMBAT KOMMODORE to lead my GRAND ARMY and give him a better paint job (most of these guys so far have mostly been painted assembly line style)

[cipher]

i fucking hated glueing the metal ones I remember. Nothing held together and half the time they didn't even fit and needed to be filed down or something

[Sinitron]

metal is a pain, generally you can get away with just super glue on the smaller miniatures but on larger models you had to drill holes in them and stick little wires and shit in to make it hold