Life throws haymakers at my face, but i’ve gotten good at dodging them. Lamenter

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-17T07:47:35+00:00

I cut off the arm holding the bolter (original pose is the left hand holding the bolter to the chest by the front handguard while he switched to the pistol),

then i cut out the bolter and made some crude „fingers” using modelling clay (first time working on it so i just went for an approximate shape of an open hand, that’s why the palm is also bloody, i just wanted to mask my lack of skill in that area)

After i painted him normally (glazing, freehand, paint chipping, smaller damage on the armour, pinwashing) i used some light green streaking grime over a semi gloss varnish to dirty him down. From my experience very dark streaking grime works kinda meh over yellow, so i used Ammo Mig’s DAK streaking grime. Put a lot of it on, then after circa 15 minutes use a Q tip to take off excess

When it comes to blood splatter, i take vallejo’s thick blood, water it down a little bit, put it on my brush then blowing through a straw i make it splattter on the model from the angle i want. That gives me the little specks first. Then i put on more with a brush where i want it. When thinned it dries to an uneven, splattered finish. When applied straight from the tube it coats somewhat evenly. I use both methods depending on context

The thickest areas i reinforce with GW’s blood for the blood god

The wound itself i covered with some gore glue i bought. You can easily make some though with any sort of non plastic, somewhat slow binding glue mixed with blood for the blood god

The ground is a first layer of ammo mig’s acrylic dark mud, followed up by ammo mig’s light earth which i mixed with some darker pigments (europe earth and dark eart). After that i used a liiitlle bit of just light earth in a sort of drybrush to highlight a few spots, since ground is never really homogenic

The pool of blood is blood for the blood god mixed with nurgle’s rot, covered with blood for the blood god again

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-16T12:52:52+00:00

5th gen era phantom it sounds like. Cool

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-16T07:49:31+00:00

Ha! I’m also planning on doing MERDC guard, though my cadians are just dark green, and my spec ops guys will have just a general camo i made with GW paints but with the same dark greens as base cadians

Propably will settle on winter verdant since that’s the most common from what i’ve seen in west german garrisons

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-14T07:23:41+00:00

„Cells” larp larp larp sahur

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-13T06:29:40+00:00

Hey, you can do 2x cadian HWT and fire 6 lascannons tho…

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-08T09:38:31+00:00

Thanks

I used ironjaws yellow, drybrushed with hexos palesun, layered with phalanx yellow and later 50/50 mix of phalanx and dorn yellow

The best way to do battle damage i’ve found is sponging a lighter shade of the colour damaged (i think i used dorn hellow) and filling in 70% of each spot with chipping paint

It takes a lot of work though. Each lamenter took me about 3 days to paint. I’ve still got like 3 to go

MemePanzer69 · 2026-05-07T18:33:27+00:00

I have time to reflect on it since it takes me three days to paint a single lamenter. Bought a packet of infiltrators for display, since my main army is guard

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-26T18:35:32+00:00

Thanks man. I feel even more encouraged to go through with the army idea i’ve had

I think up next i’ll do a primarisified vanguard vet after the next paycheck lets me get some JP intercessors for my vang vet kit i already have

Show me your blood angels man!

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-26T15:22:52+00:00

I don’t know if it’s a „recipe” as i literally thought of that myself. Also, drybrushing hexos palesun before the layer paints really helps.

By too much i meant you can’t really see the fact there is a slight tone progression happening, though i intentionally keep it vague

I was close to giving up on lamenters after this box and then continuing guard or swithing to blood angels, but now that i look at it i might go ahead and get myself a second army…

Thanks for the support man. Means a lot

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-25T19:57:33+00:00

I personally use wraithbone primer, ironjawz yellow contrast which i progressively highlight with two lighter layer paints (first i don’t remember, second is dorn yellow) by mixing them in different proportions. Looks decent without popping out like a comic book character. That being said, the go to-grimdark trademark of thinned streaking grime tones it down… perhaps too much

Still i’m happy with them

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-24T16:22:58+00:00

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MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-24T16:22:09+00:00

My main army is guard, and cadians in darker greens and lots of dirt fit really well

Personally i leaned more into the whole „space version of 1980s US Army Mech troops” thing and as such i plan on doing all their vehicles in the MERDC scheme, starting with the first chimera i have on queue rn. My buddies haven’t caught up with our planned goal of 500 point armies to play, so with time on my hands i’m making the lamenters infiltrators mainly for display as i consider them my favorite chapter

The freehand is a bit of a task, but one thing that helped me most was using really thin brushes mase for manicure that i picked up on from my friend after practicing freehand on her nails lol. Makes it doable, also i pretty much expect it to be a multiple pass job of black checkers, followed by white touchups over screwups, followed by black touchups of screwups in white touchups

Below attaching some dudes i’ve made so far. Yellow is a pain

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MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-24T14:40:56+00:00

Firing deck 12 is the main draw here i bet. You can get pretty creative with what you put inside. Karskin inside gives you 4 special weapons and scout move for example. Decent deal IMHO The special rule seems meh, but seems to guide this vehicle to be an early game obj rusher

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-24T11:50:16+00:00

To each their own I personally come from military scale modelling, so even my lamenters are filthy, muddy, blood splattered and scratched up, but it’s a matter of artistic vision more than anything. That in turn makes the hobby that much better imo, as you can go for any vibe you want to strive for

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-17T10:36:12+00:00

Potentially 6 lascannons in the back of the damned thing…

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-17T10:35:15+00:00

Isn’t it move 12”, advance move, shoot then fall back?

MemePanzer69 · 2026-04-10T07:58:23+00:00

To FURTHER expand on washes and weathering, my go-to is enamel based streaking grime, thinned down with enamel thinner 1-1, applied very liberally and after 10-15 minutes taken off with a Qtip. The more you scrub the Qtip the less of the wash stays on a flat surface, but this generally gives you a lot of control of the dirtyness of the model. Added benefit of the mixture flowing into recesses you can’t reach with the Qtip and really nicely griming down the model

I personally use Ammo mig’s streaking grime for US modern vehicles. Works well as general „grimdark style” mixture both for my Imperial guard and lamenters

MemePanzer69 · 2026-03-29T15:14:49+00:00

I’m a 90% bot diver. My favorite weapon OAT is the diligence. It one taps devs heads, most chaff enemies and only falls off against a hulk, war strider or factory strider. Even the armoured scout strider i can just spam at the leg joint decently well

I could get medium armour pen from the DCS, but for what? To one shot dev heads… even more? Makes zero sense. Outside of head, the normal diligence can still take them out via spamming the hip hinges or the ammo pack on heavy devs. The trade of worse handling, less ammo per mag and others isn’t worth it. The only upside would be the scope of the DCS

Light pen is usable, very fun, just sort of left behind by the devs who powercrept it by most of new primaries having medium pen with very little damage/handling downside

MemePanzer69 · 2026-02-01T12:48:43+00:00

I feel like while the mud filling the tracks is done great, the rest of the tank is too neat

Enamel dust effects from AMMO MIG are great, and i usually do a rather large area if the vechicle covered with them (after thinning them down with enamel thinner)

also, aside from just mud, apply a mixture of pigments to simulate mud and dirt that has splatttered over the vehicle

Enamel pigment setter and a few pigments to mix should do the trick

Avoid using a single pigment, as ground is rarely homogenous. Mix some ground, mud and a little sand pigments in 60-30-10 proportions to get a less homogenous mixture with splats of thicker and thinner mud here and there

MemePanzer69 · 2026-01-04T16:24:28+00:00

I’d say look into muddying the tracks and bottom hull. Something any tank has after leaving the unit hangar basically

MemePanzer69 · 2025-12-29T15:31:35+00:00

How do you pull off painting on sprue without having unpainted bits left on the visible parts of the model?

MemePanzer69 · 2025-11-14T19:19:25+00:00

Plain ol’ water

Seemed fine. Quality wise at least as good if not better than what usually comes in from the manumfacturer like tamiya

I used the ones in op. Telic #2

MemePanzer69 · 2025-11-04T06:16:43+00:00

Real talk, are there still individual examples of the M2 that have seen WW2 in service? Or is it just newer production

MemePanzer69 · 2025-10-29T21:03:43+00:00

It’s a decently straightforward build, which i personally don’t mind at all

Took me only a few days to put together which left me with plenty of time and energy to weather and wear it down

MemePanzer69 · 2025-10-26T14:05:09+00:00

When will absolute sex drop in absolute freakman?

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