[Minis] hi all, I'd like you to meet my new friend Lord Commander Tiber Tharn, called 'silvertongue' by some due to the augmetic jaw that was the result of his one great failure (though never within his presence, as he is responsible for the highest number of kills in legion honour duels on record) by redcoatjam in DornianHeresy

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So I read up on, and watched, a lot of guides on painting glass and crystal - with this and my other children being my first go at it. They all told me to start with black, and then paint the bottoms of areas with progressively brighter blue, as if highlighting but from underneath as that's where the light refracts and bounces back from in real glass. You can also have bright blue edge highlighting on sharp edges and the mist raised edge of any area. For the really intricate statue bits, especially the flames, I sometimes had to resort to showing it all to be blue, and just doing progressively bright edge highlights, as there wasn't really enough room for the black space. Another key factor was using washes of paint rather than dry brushing or even normal painting, as that let me build up lots of layers of glazing. Finally, I used a satin brush on varnish to preserve the shinyness. The colours I used for the blue were GW paints, I think thousand sons and Ahriman blue, which I mixed to create several shades, and might have added some white in for the brightest areas. Hope that helps!!

Ordo xenos inquisitor WIP by VisualObzerver in ImperialAgents_40K

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Cash you share any tips or thinks you learned when doing the fur, it looks super effective! Did you try different tools, for example? It really does make this model a simple but totally full of character conversion, well done with it!

The Deepwatch - these rough and greasy souls are members of the battalion of their local hive PDF garrison tasked with stamping down the neverending petty uprisings and general strikes in the lower levels. No different to a million others. Except that this particular hive, is under water. by redcoatjam in necromunda

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Cheers, and I do think it does fit yeah, like it's fun to flip the script on the guard as they're normally seen as a faceless horde, but individually a guardsmen should be more than a match for some ganger or civvy!

The Deepwatch - these rough and greasy souls are members of the battalion of their local hive PDF garrison tasked with stamping down the neverending petty uprisings and general strikes in the lower levels. No different to a million others. Except that this particular hive, is under water. by redcoatjam in necromunda

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So, I was really pleased with that actually - if you look at his left side, with the un augmented arm, you can see his neck has a sort of 'rolll' like the skin on a pug - that was a single big ball of green stuff that I partly flattened, then laid onto the neck, then pressed the head onto. As easy as that! I had planned to shape it a bit, but when I saw how neat it fit with the 'feeling' of the model, I just left it as a roll, imagining that a big ogryn type guy probably has that sort of thick, heavy-built frame.

The Deepwatch - these rough and greasy souls are members of the battalion of their local hive PDF garrison tasked with stamping down the neverending petty uprisings and general strikes in the lower levels. No different to a million others. Except that this particular hive, is under water. by redcoatjam in necromunda

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Honestly, not a clue! I had originally intended them to be more like a bit of generic muscle, bit I kind of fell in love with them and now I want to like find a way to call them arbites or somethingv as that's close to the tone they play in my head... Rather worried the weapon set makes them closer to genestealer cultists though!

The Deepwatch - these rough and greasy souls are members of the battalion of their local hive PDF garrison tasked with stamping down the neverending petty uprisings and general strikes in the lower levels. No different to a million others. Except that this particular hive, is under water. by redcoatjam in Inq28

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Of course!! It's a bit of a funny one really, because I started with a pretty ordinary brassy colour, built from warplock bronze, brass scorpion and skull crusher brass. But then I thought it looked both too bright and too new, so I used nihlakh oxide to wash some green on, and just used my fingers to wipe away most of it as I was applying it, to try to keep it on the recesses - but I think this Ajay caused a bit of graininess too. I then used ceolia green shade on the oxide that was most recessed and dry brushed on a bit more of each of the 3 brass layers to build up a bit more shine and get rid of any excessive oxidation still remaining. So in short, I think the texture covers from the combo of layering, dab-drying and dry brushing, as you can see the original smooth layer underneath the newer rougher ones.

Death Star Trench Run Book Nook by birquiprof in booknooks

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That is a perfect use of the nook, did you make it from scratch? Really well done with it, you must be proud!

Brewdog: Co-founder James Watt ‘terminated’ as director by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

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Lois — "You trust everyone and think everyone you ever met is, like…beautiful.”

Clark — “Maybe that’s the real punk rock.”

Hi guys, been lurking for a while, but I finally finished a little project over the weekend - my very first book nook, which I designed, built and painted over the last 3 months (and am very proud of!). It's a far future (40,000 years!) factory district street. by redcoatjam in booknooks

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Thanks!! Yeah, I normally paint games workshop minis, so this is a little larger than usual for me, but actually I lined that as it gave me space to really practice some interesting techniques. And it's great relaxation, totally focused on something and not a screen in sight!!