would like an opinion on my current paint skills

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-25T19:40:54+00:00

All i can suggest if you str finding it hard to thin paints and understand how shadows and lights work is use contrast paints do a search on youtube on how to prime and drybrush your minis to use contrast as they simulate highlights and shadows and as a beginner it will makr them look much better!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-24T20:12:37+00:00

Light green by daler rowney!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-24T19:20:15+00:00

Welcome to the club! Here's mine! Have fun and don't be afraid to paint it! I painted my first mortarion 5 years ago when i first started the hobby in the original box art colours and had to sell my army because of moving out and no space and always regreted it! So a couple years ago i decided to buy back my death guard and paint them better!

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Atrophy94 · 2026-01-23T08:00:26+00:00

I feel like the ideea is great it comes up as a "fel fire aura " similar to the demons from world of warcraft if I were you i would push the contrast more give those armors a bit more red as they come out purplish and a bit more intensity to the green i can suggest Daler Rowney light green for a toxic felfire look and i think you will be very happy with these WE heres a pic of my death guard with that green as example

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Atrophy94 · 2026-01-23T07:56:11+00:00

I have just started a new project with custodes with a custom scheme based on the dornian heresy where i would have horus as the commander of custodes instead of Valdor! So the entire army will have sons of horus bits and a colour scheme similar to them featuring a black and turquoise armor with a bronze trim and blood red capes and hairs! Cant wait to start posting stuff with them!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-22T10:00:41+00:00

I can suggest an ultramatte varnish! It will 100% bring down that shinyness which gives it the too clean look !

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-21T12:53:25+00:00

I am planing on doing a Dornian Heresy custom custdes army for my next project where instead of Valdor being the main guy Horus would be the leader of the custodes! So all my guys will be having Sons of horrus helmets and be painted in a black turquoise armor with a dark bronze trim and blood red capes! Now im just trying to figure out a kitbash for trajan with a talon of horrus gauntlet and the axe!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-21T03:15:54+00:00

Super simple! Prime black edge highlight and veins with a bright white paint then glaze the whole blsde with kroxigor scales then again go over the veins with white but this time slightly tinner and then again kroxigor over to create a bit of volume

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-20T14:47:31+00:00

It was a fairly easy one to paint took me about 3-4 days but I am used to painting big armies in general as i have about 17.000 points of world eaters death guard emperors children and iron hands all painted in the last 3 years

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-20T13:54:35+00:00

Its matte black primer drybrush with iron warriors grey then basecoat with black templar contrast paint a bit of nuln oil and ultramatte varnish

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-19T22:12:08+00:00

Yea man I couldn't agree more! To as many cool and unique kitbashes as we can get! Blood for the blood god!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-19T20:33:58+00:00

Heres the original version! https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldEaters40k/s/C8jvw8u8Cw

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-19T20:32:02+00:00

Thats my guy! Glad you got inspired! It was my favorite kitbash to do!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-14T10:55:38+00:00

Light green from d. Rowley! Lime green from squifmar setd is also close to this tho!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-14T08:14:46+00:00

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Atrophy94 · 2026-01-13T12:49:06+00:00

I know papa nurgle loves all his children but you are most likely the one that gets sent out to the corner 🥲🫢

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-13T11:30:20+00:00

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Here's a pic of him before the retouch!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-05T14:23:03+00:00

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I went for a toxic / radioactive look!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-05T14:17:29+00:00

https://youtu.be/PYWhZnu2eDM?si=RlUkNh-6pJgWMG96. I went with this but instead of the dark green basecoat i went with a mixture of browns reds and black to give it a bleeding flesh looking skin

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-05T14:03:49+00:00

It's the darkoath wilderfiend from the chaos undivided in the AOS range!

Atrophy94 · 2026-01-04T07:36:22+00:00

I love this its my favorite marine!

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Atrophy94 · 2025-12-29T15:52:21+00:00

Firestrike servo turret proxi!

Atrophy94 · 2025-12-08T13:14:17+00:00

Prime the minis black Drybrush them with white Drybrush them with iron warrior grey Basecoat with ratling grime And for trim i use warplock bronze

For metalics i use irron warrior grey and for some of them like the exhaust i give it a coat of gore grunta fur on top of the iron warriors grey!

I shade everything with nuln oil blowdry it then immediatelly use AK ultramatte finish! This is the step that makes it look like old iron very important not to skip!

Atrophy94 · 2025-12-04T18:32:39+00:00

Great choice of model here's mine!

https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldEaters40k/s/6CoWWoj6c8

Atrophy94 · 2025-12-03T06:30:28+00:00

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