The Hobby That Dare's Not Speak Its Name Aka Wargaming

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Latest paint, really happy with it as I learned a lot about painting white, where to save time, glazing and refining battle damage

I didn’t paint the things in shadow / hidden and you can see that from some angles but from 3ft it looks unreal.

Settled into loving painting mechs and vehicles, then a few guys to sell their scale. This one has a pilot and some stealth suits when I get round to them

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Nice. What is the model? Looks a bit like the old Dreadnoughts? 😁

thank you! it's a tau ghostkeel . for size comparisons including a boxnaught

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Got to love mecha.

The Blood angels? Dreadnought on the left looks a smaller scale to the ones on the right? 🤔

Spent Sunday playing some trench war gaming. Used Xenos Rampant rules, but set in 40k. Three game campaign over the day

V rare sci fi outing for me!

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Finally got around to playing Agincourt as well.

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I didn’t paint the things in shadow / hidden

Unless you're entering a competition and painting in sub assemblies some models require impossible brush angles to get paint into every recess. No one will ever see and as you say, how it looks on the tabletop is what matters. And the Ghostkeel looks great!

Productive month or two, as I also played Talavera. Which was brutal and fantastic.

Quatre Bras on the 21st!

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Lastly, best game of the last few weeks has been Black Seas, which was great fun, albeit raucous as we went too heavy on the drinks whilst playing in the garden

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it is! it's a much earlier model and shows the jump between 41k stuff and 40k. i much prefer the older scale but time marches on

@Arducius agreed , my general rule is if i cannot see it when i pick it up and oggle it it's fine

and @Haino these games and models look great! wow!!!

It’s almost been a year since I started painting models and to celebrate I’ve been repainting one of the models that I painted near the start. It’s one of my favourites; luckily two came in the box at the time so I have a benchmark to go against

It’s not done yet, but it’s getting there

Also funny how it’s a great example of all the extra detail you put in disappears at 3ft

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Looking good!

That is a lovely set/game board

Finished this guy, reallllly happy with him

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Some of my latest, feel I’ve made a huge leap forward in recent models, slowly picking up stylised NMM has been fun. That and working on a brush style I find fun. A mix of stippling and glaze blending over black and browns to create shadows.

No washes or technical paints on any of these, all just glazes for tone and recess shading. Makes the process feel a lot more personal giving great freedom for control and brush work. Useless for getting more than a handful of models done tho!

Really enjoying painting at the moment

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Stippled NMM is great - way fun!

All look great! I've tried NMM a few times and it always looks shit. Followed a few youtube videos and it's obvious they are skipping out a load of steps, it just doesn't look that good with a normal black-grey-white blend but yours look ace. Tips please!

Thank you!

I think the best advice I found was that nmm is more about impression than realism, that if you can create the feel of metal rather than the look of it, you’ll usually sell it.

One noticeable trait is the edges of metal will always light up more than the body of it, so edge highlighting everything is a pretty good rule of thumb, you can spend ages working out light values but for anything not golden demon this will work out fine

Likewise making contrast is usually more important than light placement. Make sure you leave enough of the darkest tones to set against the highlights. If the dark area is too boring you can use micro scratching to break it up with your highlight colours to make different depth scratches

If the metal bends or has a noticeable hard line do a highlight one side and a lowlight the other, try to leave spaces between highlights. If it’s a long edge one large highlight and smaller one further down simulates bounce shadows. On flat areas figure where your imagined light is coming from and topographically layer up the ratios to a highlight point, leaving the rest in shadow

The next is saving pure white highlights only for your metals, this makes them look like the brightest thing on the model, it also sells the eye on texture differences, like if you use dash highlighting for fabrics. When adding this focus on where you’ve placed your highlights and the edges, you can also use it for micro scratches

Then it’s ratios, I base in pure black, then use 3 shades of my target metal, dark, middle, light and I’ll cover 70%/30%/10% darkest to lightest , you can use any colour, all that matters is the shades and ratios.

As for working it in, I’ll glaze to the highpoint then if needs be take the darker colour and reglazing to the dark point, repeated one after the other till smooth as desired, then edging in the penultimate highlight, chip highlight of pure white

Finally you can use accent colours to sell different surfaces, browns for rust, blues for polished steels, greens for verdigris etc, glazing them into shadows or around features of the metal. Just ensure your edge highlight layers over the top of anything you adid. Alternatively laying them down before you build your highlights can work too.

Oh and finally, I really stared at this guys work for like 2 days to work out how he was layering his paints

https://www.instagram.com/co.rius?igsh=Z3lndnMycWJyOWRr

My first venture into miniature painting in 30 odd years...

Had to be from one of the first books that started it all from Livingston / Jackson.

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I still have that book! Been meaning to get that miniature :-)

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Heh, I might have to revisit that and Trial of Champions with my boys.

I only realised they founded Games Workshop relatively recently. 😎

I found two Fighting Fantasy books in a charity shop recently. We had them in their German editions at the time.

My shelf queen blood angel army is getting there, really happy with how it’s coming along,

Head cannon lore is “the remnants of the Defense of Baal, only the veterans, elites and a few savvy recruits and aspirants are left”

Then will paint a few successor chapters , as well as a couple sanguinary guard and a primaris tycho when the combat patrol releases, have the banner backpack and combi bolter saved

My whip lemartes, I’m in the process of turning the nmm to bone, really happy with how it’s coming along

Then my metal blood angel army recently acquired from eBay and a few trades with @BareNecessities , this completes the primaris, first born and now metal army trifecta 🥴

Really into painting lately, love it

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