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Yeah. On a fresh and well pointed synthetic, or with a W&N series 7, I can do at least basic eyes with the same #1 I use for doing the rest of the general work on the model and even not have cleanup to do most of the time.

 JamesY wrote:

 Mothsniper wrote:

 Freya wrote:
one word. Retardant. If you don't use any kind of paint retardant your paint will dry before it ever hits the model especially for eyes.

Really?! did not even think of that.

Another way to tackle eyes is to use a bigger brush than you'd think, but spend time getting a good point on it. More paint will be held in the bristles, meaning that it won't dry out on you.

Depends on the circumstances really. I use a big brush generally speaking but on a hot day it doesn't matter how much paint I have in it, the tip will dry out fast. Besides... if you wanna have creamy blends you need retardant so may as well buy some and use it to make life easier.

I have retardants, flow aids, and thinners of all kinds. I don't use them for eyes, but in the UK we rarely get days that go above 30 Celsius, and most days are far more temperate than that anyway, so probably isn't as necessary. I do use those them for other things though.

 JamesY wrote:
I have retardants, flow aids, and thinners of all kinds. I don't use them for eyes, but in the UK we rarely get days that go above 30 Celsius, and most days are far more temperate than that anyway, so probably isn't as necessary. I do use those them for other things though.

Also depends on what paints you use though. 30 Celsius is still rather hot and will make some paints harder to use. What paints do you use?

After some agonizing over how to paint the blue areas, I'm making some progress on my battle pods.

 Freya wrote:

 JamesY wrote:
I have retardants, flow aids, and thinners of all kinds. I don't use them for eyes, but in the UK we rarely get days that go above 30 Celsius, and most days are far more temperate than that anyway, so probably isn't as necessary. I do use those them for other things though.

Also depends on what paints you use though. 30 Celsius is still rather hot and will make some paints harder to use. What paints do you use?

A mix of citadel, Vallejo, revell and recently gsw. I've started using a wet palette too to help keep the paint moist for longer. It rarely hits 30 here though, most days are between 19 and 24, so pretty good on average for painting.

Plenty of good stuff on show as always.

Hobby time seems to have vanished into the warp last coup!e of months, but my main reason for doing the challenge was to ensure I got some things finished, so don't want to miss a month.



Therefore I will attempt a couple of simple figures, no conversions, limited details, so even if it's not great work it's at least something else done.

These first two Pods look table-ready to me, needing only to be varnished. Now we'll see how many more I can finish before the deadline.

Okay so I've finally added some inks to this one and done some edge highlights on the gun. Still waiting for my new candy inks to ink the yellow on the scope so hopefully I get them in the mail soon xD CC welcome

Objective Secured







Cheers,

CB

Great work Freya and Captain Brown! Terrific detailing!

Mothsniper wrote:Wyches turned out much more colorful than the Kabalites

Those are some very pretty Eldar.

queen_annes_revenge wrote:Need to think of a good scheme for the cyber mastiff.

Perhaps paint the dog like a police car, with pale body panels and a dark trim/internals?

JamesY wrote:A mix of citadel, Vallejo, revell and recently gsw.

I don't recognise "gsw", which paint line is it?

Freya wrote:Still waiting for my new candy inks

I'm interested to see what these are. Also nice panel lining on that space marine.

Some work in progress from me:

@turaxa greenstuff world.

Progress thus far; getting there!

Here are ready and varnished models. Scouts are made from palanite bodies, reiver heads and weapons from bitbox. Vanguards from reiver bodies. I really like the bigger size of primaris models.

People have so nice looking models in here.

@timppako those scout conversions work really well. I may have to steal that idea one day.

 Captain Brown wrote:
Objective Secured

Cheers,

CB

NOICE!
Definitely Secured!



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Some work in progress from me:

Yes! Love that inquisition color scheme!
These guys would fit with my STRELETS. Also go Black/ Gray/ White/ Red colorscheme


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thechosen1 wrote:
Progress thus far; getting there!

Spoiler:

These guys look super tactical!
Lemeguess, Desert for base terrain ?! Yep, fits perfectly

Man, I've been away for too long!
So much awesome work done by so many - great lighting effects, great colour fades, great conversions...I love this thread!

I am going to enter these guys - I reckon half of the game is all about securing objectives.

timppako wrote:
Here are ready and varnished models. Scouts are made from palanite bodies, reiver heads and weapons from bitbox. Vanguards from reiver bodies. I really like the bigger size of primaris models.

People have so nice looking models in here.

Love desert dust covering the boots, and all black armor with white heads and red desert. Has that MadMax and Bene Tleilax feel that is just so cool.
Dig it!



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 Chris56 wrote:
Man, I've been away for too long!
So much awesome work done by so many - great lighting effects, great colour fades, great conversions...I love this thread!

I am going to enter these guys - I reckon half of the game is all about securing objectives.

Welcome welcome!
Any interesting color schemes in the plans for cypher lords?

Going to go for a Japanese look...we'll see how it goes!

I feel like these are mostly done:



Just some spot details left to do, once I decide how to do them.

Further WIP on barbs. I wanted to give the effect of a riot situation, so I went for a flaming item for the osl source. I'll add more detritus to the base to increase this effect later on.

Thank you 416_SpaceWolves and Mothsniper

JoshInJapan wrote:I feel like these are mostly done:



Just some spot details left to do, once I decide how to do them.

Josh,

Nice objective. You found a use for those four power relay things from the old boxed set. Mine have been sitting painted like my downed Aquila lander doing nothing for ages.

Cheers,

CB

@queen_annes_revenge that is so good

Damn dudes! good stuff

Is time to start categories for August? Given what’s happening this weekend, I propose “New hotness”; this could cover the latest release, just the newest model you own or a model that represents a rookie or new recruit in your army/gang.

Yep, throw out some ideas and I'll sort a poll later.

As I mentioned in June's thread last night, I'm looking for volunteers to run the vote for this month, and August's round as as a whole, as my eyesight is having way more trouble than I thought and the screen time involved in running these is a bit much for me at the moment. Anyone up for stepping in for a bit?

Hi, after lurking around a while I thought I might just join, since my recently finished mini fits the theme. "After a long battle the last Ultramarine fell and the city was conquered."
Started working on it 3 weeks ago, on and off though.

WIP Shots for proof


Finished (3 pictures)


(Hope I did everything correctly with the uploads and code)

Calling the quick and dirty job almost done. I gotta bulid a lightbox. The photo looks terrible. Just some more touch ups to go.

Statistx wrote:
Hi, after lurking around a while I thought I might just join, since my recently finished mini fits the theme. "After a long battle the last Ultramarine fell and the city was conquered."
Started working on it 3 weeks ago, on and off though.

(Hope I did everything correctly with the uploads and code)

Looking good!


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thechosen1 wrote:
Calling the quick and dirty job almost done. I gotta bulid a lightbox. The photo looks terrible. Just some more touch ups to go.

Nice camo work!
Ye, lightbox is a must. although I ran int a problem of black stripe lines from the led lights, something frequency something picked up by phone camera.
lucky I had old canon rebel laying around, and none white background helps too!



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 Paradigm wrote:
Yep, throw out some ideas and I'll sort a poll later.

As I mentioned in June's thread last night, I'm looking for volunteers to run the vote for this month, and August's round as as a whole, as my eyesight is having way more trouble than I thought and the screen time involved in running these is a bit much for me at the moment. Anyone up for stepping in for a bit?

Sorry to hear that man.
I wish I could, sorry.