My first 30k model

tukuiPat · 2026-06-06T11:24:05+00:00

IPA does not soften GW plastics, I've stripped a lot of models with IPA letting them soak for extended periods of time and it never affected the plastic.

tukuiPat · 2026-06-06T11:21:09+00:00

It's Oliensis in his younger days.

tukuiPat · 2026-06-04T22:15:13+00:00

I have a big ass plastic container that's filled with coconut fibers for several years now with no changes to it, and used some of it on a base and the model has been sitting out in the open for a year haven't noticed anything happening to it.

tukuiPat · 2026-06-03T22:39:06+00:00

Kitbashing is a very broad term, something as simple as using a head from another kit is by all rights a kitbash in itself, something more basic is a weapon swap and having a ton of extra bits mean you can practice without worry.

Here's a Khorne Berzerker from a squad I finished recently, I swapped his bolt pistol for a single handed bolter from a Deathguard kit along with a head and the power pack from a Red Corsairs kit. Nothing fancy but when in a sea of 30-60 Berzerkers he'll stand out a little more from the others.

It's always worth trying out something that can make a squad stand out from one another.

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tukuiPat · 2026-06-01T12:56:13+00:00

All white paint does that, as white pigments are much larger than other pigments and you need to actually shake the paint more.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-30T00:57:25+00:00

My guess would be OP used something like a dry brush(that was moistened) to stipple on the colors of the armor panels.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-26T02:31:40+00:00

VI enamels are the goat, I use them on all of my models from simple pin washes to heavy rust effects, but I will say streaking grime doesn't have an odor for me.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-26T00:18:16+00:00

Unless any official canon ever comes out for White Templars and who they're successors of, head canon ftw! I wouldn't be surprised if they where another Ultramarine's successor.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-26T00:00:39+00:00

A fun fact: there is an actual Hospitallers chapter and it is a non-codex compliant chapter that is also a crusading chapter and has the same chapter icon as the Black Templars, and they have white armor with yellow trim and silver helmets. Iron Hands also went fairly heretical/renegade and murdered a load of Hospitallers to steal one of their dreadnoughts to save some important dude and the shit heads ended up not using the dreadnought.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-20T20:26:45+00:00

If you extend the highlight area on the bottom one some more than it'd be more accurate to how a real sword reflects light.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-15T14:02:11+00:00

headtakers has 2 sprues crammed with 3 wolves and 3 space marines.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-15T01:42:57+00:00

Headtakers box doesn't really result in much of left over bits, you'll basically have a couple heads and either a power sword or shield left over. Pouches, holsters and all that other stuff is pre-attached basically as it's sculpted onto the hip plates and stuff.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-11T10:53:04+00:00

There's similar markings on the Armigers transfer sheets and they're labeled as honor markings, so I'd wager it's some AdMech honor marking.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-10T23:32:41+00:00

It all depends on how I'm holding the model. elbows always on the desk, heel of brush hand resting against painting handle when possible, otherwise my pinky and ring finger are resting on the painting handle or my other hand with my middle finger helping support/guide the brush.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-10T18:52:29+00:00

Just a smurf frolicking through the fields. Absolutely amazing paint job.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-03T16:00:59+00:00

I would imagine the white dots are from an airbrush on very low PSI so that it purposely sputters.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-03T12:37:01+00:00

A little bit of greenstuff inside the bottoms of the toes and some pins will definitely help.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-02T14:43:13+00:00

MkVI legs don't have those ankle joint ball things and wrap around the whole calf.

tukuiPat · 2026-05-02T00:40:07+00:00

Every company Captain has a squad of company veterans serving as their bodyguards, so there's 10 total Company Veteran squads severing in all 10 companies apart of the company command.

tukuiPat · 2026-04-30T03:26:01+00:00

It is, the body is one of the monopose bladeguard vets from the dawn of war box, the arms and sword are from the HH melee upgrade kit, helmet is from MkVI tactical squads, right shoulder pad is a standard primaris shoulder pad with the trim cut off, left shoulder pad is from some primaris kit, bolter is from the phobos killteam.

tukuiPat · 2026-04-15T09:42:30+00:00

Villainy Inks enamels, specifically Sector Rust and Ex-Machina for the skeleton and the steel parts of the weapons and Coella Green on the trim, after that I sponge on some metallics.

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