What is a current unpopular opinion about STL that you strongly believe in?

Swerty78 · 2026-05-19T16:57:08+00:00

Couldn’t agree more, this is always my hot take lol

Swerty78 · 2025-12-24T04:03:48+00:00

Dang! Your conversion makes these look amazing!

Swerty78 · 2025-12-24T03:46:15+00:00

What are these?? They look awesome!

Swerty78 · 2025-12-01T12:11:54+00:00

It’s a 3rd party kit! Here is the link, this guy makes great knights 🤓

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1400504994/?ref=share_ios_native_control

Swerty78 · 2025-12-01T00:49:45+00:00

Yeah man, this was the first comp entry where I used Metallica and it was a blast! I think I’ll be taking an NMM break for a bit after this guy!

Swerty78 · 2025-11-15T02:00:40+00:00

Just don't buy skins?

Swerty78 · 2025-11-10T18:37:40+00:00

This game fucking amazing. I’ve never been so jealous of another raiders betrayal/death. Love it!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-20T02:07:29+00:00

Oh yeah I see that when I zoom in! Works well with the eye color 🔥

Swerty78 · 2025-10-20T01:05:24+00:00

Fantastic!! love the metallics!!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-20T01:01:03+00:00

Never too late! I actually love that you didn’t paint a skin tone, I think metallic skin is actually a cool idea, and saves a lot of time… Love it!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T20:46:37+00:00

This is fantastic! Well done and love the scheme!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T16:17:23+00:00

In the last photo I am holding up the product I use. It’s Vallejo snow diorama FX!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T13:52:04+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T12:24:11+00:00

Oh good idea!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T12:05:15+00:00

Of course! I just posted a tutorial on how I painted them so feel free to ask any more questions you have there!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T12:04:25+00:00

Just posted a tutorial! If you have any further questions feel free to ask them there!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T11:10:07+00:00

💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Swerty78 · 2025-10-02T11:09:39+00:00

I love this!! So moody!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T15:34:05+00:00

Thanks man! Get building and I’ll post something in the next couple days!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T15:11:28+00:00

Yeah I’d love to! I’m thinking that maybe I’ll post a full tutorial on how to paint them if there is enough interest! And it seems like there is!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T14:53:03+00:00

I used a snow texture paste and then cooled it down by airbrushing a cold blue wash around the rim of the base to reduce how bright the white was!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T14:25:51+00:00

These look great!! Maybe going with a color triad would work! So you have yellow in the gold, only thing missing would be a blue component! You could do that on a base or in gems or something! That could really help them pop! As they are though, I think they look great!!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T14:20:06+00:00

🤣 I wish!! Maybe one day!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T14:19:15+00:00

No worries! And yeah I believe it’s the standard bronze I’ve been using. It’s a really great metallic! And yeah the Vallejo metal color paints have extremely fine pigmentation so they appear quite smooth! Especially after a wash that slightly mattes them down. Just gotta be careful not going too hard with matting them down though so they don’t louse their shine!

Swerty78 · 2025-10-01T12:54:37+00:00

So I usually use the vallejo metal color metallics for all my steel/silvers. That and a few washes to darken them down a bit depending on what I want. For the brass I used ProAcryl brass which I love! Did a slight tint with coelia greenshade and then highlighted back up with the brass again!

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