i need to make a wet palette
This was the biggest flat bottom container I have aside from like a baking dish or a 5 gallon bucket lololol

Tedious

Very tedious xD

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Honestly things are going too well

Might as well take a photo before I fuck it up xD

My detail brush's tip is fucked tho. The soap trick does not work

think imma stop for now

i put a cover over my HELLO KITTY wet palette loosely. need to figure out how covered that thing needs to be to last overnight tho >.>

assuming everything goes well tomorrow i wanna try washing these then drybrushing

hoping tomorrow is a productive day

if i finish dogmeat as well i'll have 4 more minis left from that 2 player set i bought

Smallest marine I have painted (so far) :)

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i've discovered heroforge
that i other site i linked the other day seems like a subset of this
First time practicing making rain effects for a project coming up.

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i am still in hero forge lol
okay i need to stop for now... lolol
just... one... more... tweak...

the colors are mostly for show. you can get a 2d printing of it in color, but not a painted 3d mini

also heroforge only seems to offer minis in 30mm scale

you can order the stl file and print it yourself or third party tho

there is a height/size slider tho, and you might be able to Guesstimate TM an upscale from 30mm to 32mm scale using that

yesterday: base coat perfection

today, after drying overnight: terrible. model showing underneath. pain too thin in splotches. must repaint like a third of the base coat

Touched up

Experimenting slightly with highlights and dry brushing before doing a wash which I will probably fuck up

alright washing in sections, with non-black colors, with the mini in different positions because gravity, etc sounds way too complicated lol

BLACK WASH. ALL AT ONCE

LOL YOLO

i should let them dry longer first tho >.>
Wet
I gave dogmeat some of the wets

i bet stormtroopers are a motherfucker to paint

white armor

fuck off lololol

kill team sounds like the financially sound version of 40k
look i'm biased, but drawing cards is more fun than rolling dice

i will cast brainstorm all day idgaf

unban top

hrmmm...

Hrm. I mean yeah the wash was weak but some darkening in folds and cracks did happen

This was like 2 washes

I don't have that many shades of green but I wonder if lightening some of the skin cracks and then highlighting green/yellow would look good

One of the mutants has an exposed back and I feel like mixing in a wild gray would make it look like a weird semi translucent vein thing going on

Or look terrible lolololol

I squeezed my brush right inbetween two detail features to get right inside where I wanted it and it was better than sex

Hmmm I dunno

Feel like the wash/shadows came out way wrong

Drybrushing kinda fun tho

Shading fiasco aside, I do like the red brown orange silver exposed metal and rust look

I think the wash problem was that it was way too weak

Should be a lot stronger so it looks properly dark, and I just wipe it off the raised areas

I consider the drybrushing an absolute win

I need a lighter touch tho xD

I might be better shading with a brush than washing

But that's mostly because I dunno how to wash xD

Drybrushing is a lie

It works better with a mildly wet brush >.>

Yeah okay brush strokes need... Work

But it's better

Glad I went dark green as the base skin color now, this highlighting works

(I have two greens and no white .>.>)

Oh the yellow is working for me

Alright I can layer forever obv I think this is good enough

Planned to just do bases today... zero bases done lololol

apart from my atrocious basing skills i need to work on texturing/weathering and directional lighting next time

also like now that i can see my photos in giant size on my desktop: these do in fact look better under normal lighting conditions with normal human eyes lololol

good god that contrast

that is the only defense i will offer my minis
WIP of my green legion of the damned

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note to self: work on color transitions and blending/mixing

talking to my brother about fallout vs 40k

i think 40k space marines would prolly 99% squad wipe me, but my player character is juiced from6 fallout games and either 1) escape with his life, or 2) vats them all down, depending on their armor vulnerabilities

it's not 100% squad wipe because i have 19 perception and i feel it is possible i detect them first, or far enough away i don't get everyone instantly domed

bolters prolly can't make it through a few feet of dirt

snuggle up to the dirt

start directing mortar fire. toss nades, smoke, bangs

buff up. put hilariously unrealistic suppression vats fire on the marines almost instantaneously

also like would the marines just charge us

they might. but in the face of suddenly surprisingly accurate and massive suppression fire they might not. they don't know my squad is full of squishy humans and one over-juiced player character

is space marine armor sealed. i have gas grenades. i pop those too

can my knife penetrate joints of their armor? they are going to find out i can knife like 24 of them in a round unless grim reaper's sprint triggers, which it almost certainly will, and i just keep going until they all die because i teleport into melee range like some kinda wizard

am i in power armor? usually not, but if i'm in some x-01 i could prolly tank some bolter hits, especially if they're oblique

i also have magic don't let me die drugs so unless they one shot me i'm gonna keep going

they're prolly better off not charging me. best chance is to pick me off with a bolter shot to the noggin at range

the 40ker war nerds tell me space marines can run upwards of 45mph

unfortunate for them since i can run faster, and sprint even faster for a limited time

i am willing to cede this point somewhat because there is nothing specifically in fallout lore about any of the player characters being able to move this fast, and that's calculated from gameplay/perk/mutation effects

taking this into account i can probably only keep up with a standard space marine for a few minutes at a time at best

that said even given the height of space marines in lore, they should not be able to biomechanically reach those speeds

if they come into the fallout universe i feel they should be capped to fallout universe human speed limitations, and if i enter the 40k universe i should outrun them xD

it'd be funny if space marines achieved that linear top speed by /bounding/, although i would argue that would be tactically terrible for them, since i could then shoot them while they are in the air and unable to maneuver

do space marines retreat? how many do i have to kill before they do? how furiously do they fight to recover their dead?

could they force me into a defensive position by just wounding my squad?

these are much more interesting questions that raw power level tbh

also how perceptive are space marines

they walk around in big clunky armor with bright colors emblazoned all over, typically

i am dressed in muted browns and greens to camo with (XXth century) northeastern post-apocalyptic wilderness

apparently they have a bunch of lifesign hookups with themselves and their squaddies

some have "preysight" which sounds like thermal

also... kill counters? okay lol

so... lots of lore inconsistency from the novels, is what i'm getting lol

however, it does appear that space marines are still indeed human and you can divide their attention

so even tho a terminator suit might be feeding them information they might be overly focused on other crap going around them

this is a funny excerpt and more or less makes me think terminator armor allows them to fire like fo76-style vats

just point at where the fucking suit telemetry tells you and pull the damn trigger xD

i feel like their disdain for long range precision shooting will be their downfall if my rifleman detects them far out

also how much ammo does a space marine carry

i feel like they waste a lot and cannot possibly physically carry much

SPACE MARINE SPRUES COME WITH BOLTER MAG POUCHES AND SHIT

PLAYERS JUST DON'T USE THEM??? LOLOL