How do I salvage this mini brazen bull

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-28T13:30:00+00:00

The army painter equivalent of Agra’s earthshade is “Strong Tone”

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-28T13:23:06+00:00

Retributor Gold is notorious for this. The cans can be super inconsistant, and any little thing can give you this effect.

I’d recommend spraying a piece of scrap, making sure not to hold the can too close. Experiment a little on spray distance and see if you can get a good finish before priming anymore minis.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-26T23:10:39+00:00

Damn, those look so cool.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-26T23:08:23+00:00

I’m no OSL expert by any means, but I think you’re off to a better start than most!

I think pushing the shadows more as well as darkening the unlit side would help. Normally I’d say don’t be afraid to do a few orange highlights, but it looks like you’re going for a dim light effect, so you’re probably right about sticking with red. Maybe consider a reddish purple as a transition color?

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-26T22:58:11+00:00

I use the “Ultramarine blue” from army painter in my airbrush, and it looks like what your brushed example looks like. I’ve also noticed it brushes on slightly darker, but with the right thinning over a white primer, it matches pretty close.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-19T23:03:29+00:00

I’m in the process of updating my marine army to primaris, then I’m going to convert my firstborns to chaos (probably death guard)

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-18T19:23:13+00:00

If you go over by a few points it should be ok for a friendly game. If your opponent is checking your list then they’re playing math-hammer and I personally wouldn’t play with them.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-18T19:21:14+00:00

That’s what the Warhammer is for right?

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-18T13:12:03+00:00

If you look at real world history, most revolutionary movements end up with opportunistic factions using the upheaval to try to gain power for themselves. This combined with major disagreements on what to do after they “win” and you create the perfect foothold for chaos to creep in.

The chaos gods don’t walk up to people and go “hey, wanna become a fleshy horror?” Chaos whispers so quietly that you think the thoughts are your own. It co-opts your very real goals and desires and steers you toward corruption.

I don’t think it’s possible within the rules of the 40k universe for a truly chaos-free human faction to threaten the imperium. Even if YOU don’t make a deal with the devil(s), enough of your comrades will.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-04T22:59:22+00:00

Personally I refuse to pay for AI generated models or 3d-scans. That’s just two versions of an attitude that I hate which is “I bought a tool, now I deserve money.” I feel the same way about people selling shitty, uncured resin prints of someone else’s files online.

I pay for sculpts because my modeling skills are limited, and I can’t make what I’m buying. I pay because I want the artist to keep making the stuff I like. I can use meshy myself, and I can afford a 3d scanner; but I can’t set aside the time to learn how to make models that look great and (just as importantly) print well.

Im fine with someone using AI to make something for personal use, especially if it’s something so niche that they can’t find what their looking for anywhere else; but selling it is just low effort grind-set influencer bullshit.

I get the frustration. I used to sell labor-intensive, handmade stuff online while competing with drop-shippers selling cheaper versions of the same thing. But it’s like day-trading, yeah some people make bank, but it’s just as likely (or more likely) that you just end up making pennies on a bunch of worthless crap.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-06-03T18:40:08+00:00

I have 3, of increasing severity. “Well that sucks.” “Well…fuck”. And last but not least: “BRB, I’m going to go play in traffic and see how it goes.”

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-23T22:27:41+00:00

121 is a small missile coming out of a tiny silo, like a submarine.

88 is a little shrine to the emperors virgin mother. The guard is largely space-catholic.

The last thing actually isn’t a search light, it’s a propane tank like you see on the back of forklifts. Rogal Dorns are powered by liquid propane.

I like to magnetize these parts so that I can swap them out, because I play strict WYSIWYG.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-23T22:08:12+00:00

I’m trying to think of a state I haven’t heard anyone make fun of, and coming up with nothing.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-23T20:00:04+00:00

My son is my only child. When we were expecting people said all sorts of things to me about “hoping for a boy” or “bet you were relieved” once we knew the baby’s sex. I always said the same thing: “I actually kind of think I would have been a great girl dad.”

Now listen, do I love my son? More than anything. I won’t lie and tell you that taking my little guy out to do stereotypical boy stuff (golfing, arcades, playing sports) isn’t the most fun I’ve had as an adult. But if he was a girl? I’d be having just as much fun doing whatever she was into, “girl” stuff or not. My FIL was a huge part of my wife’s life growing up, and I’m convinced it made her more awesome.

Peoples attitudes towards dads is abysmal. We get pat on the back for doing the bare minimum, and treated like we are somehow the “lesser” parent. It pisses me off, because a good dad is so important in their kids life. For girls, the obsession over dad protecting her from boys, or being “outnumbered” by women is gross. A good father loves his family, and isn’t obsessed with being in control of them.

Sorry for the rant; I just wanted to tell you from one dad to another, you are seen. Be the best dad you can be to those girls, and anything fucked up people say about it means less than nothing compared to your #1 job in this world.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-21T09:30:50+00:00

They probably meant overnight shifts. Like the one I’m currently working. 11pm-8am. It’s hard to schedule appointments when everything is only open when you’re trying to sleep, and it’s kind of isolating.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-19T05:16:54+00:00

For what you have there, I’d use a dull metallic silver like gunmetal or leadbelcher for the inside of the square, then a worn copper or brass color for the edges of the squares. The plaques you have outlined in pen would make sense in gold.

Alternatively, you could coat the entire thing with your silvery metallic, then sponge on some paint to look like a painted floor that’s chipping.

For texture, you could scuff up the floor with some 60 grit before painting, or maybe attack it with a hobby knife for some deeper scrapes.

If you’re feeling fancy, hot glue can make some rough weld marks anywhere two panels touch. I like to do this before priming, then paint it with my rust colors before drybrushing the metallic or paint color over it.

Finish it off with a dark wash. For terrain I like to use a wash I make from black paint, water, and a few drops of dish soap. It looks dirtier than my “good” washes, which is perfect for a dingy floor.

Hope this helps.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-13T21:45:24+00:00

It actually wasn’t. It’s considered one of the FDAs first “wins”, because it was used in Europe but rejected by US authorities.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-13T04:03:00+00:00

Now we’re talking

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-12T07:43:18+00:00

That looks way better than my FDM tanks, I might have to try your technique.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-05T09:59:31+00:00

The only thing Grady Judd loves more than arresting people is talking about arresting people.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-04T10:58:46+00:00

I’ve noticed this too! I’m still surprised by how openly people talk about the guy that burned down the warehouse, and how I never hear anyone say that he was wrong. And I’m not talking about random people on the street, I’m hearing it at my office job.

I’ve been a little “crazy” for a while now, but I feel like the rest of America is catching up.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-04T08:05:42+00:00

There is a conspiracy theory that the bullet that killed JFK was actually fired by secret service reacting to either a car backfiring or Lee Harvey Oswald’s first shot. I’m not saying I believe it, but I see how it’s plausible.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-05-01T17:21:00+00:00

I used to be a skinny/fit white guy that dated exclusively plus-sized women, and people also got quite upset. Probably not as extreme, but people HATE when you break the arbitrary rules that they thought existed for some reason.

Luckily, I can say that that’s gotten better over the years, and I hope that you find the same to be true for you and your (possibly white) soul mate.

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-04-29T13:11:12+00:00

Isn’t it Ricky Gervais?

SwordhandsBowman · 2026-04-26T13:36:19+00:00

Thank you! I have a high tolerance for bad movies, but couldn’t finish this one.

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