r/Miniaturespainting

for any of the oldhammer fans out there. after having painted a good few plague marines i decided to finally commit and paint my old mini too.

needless to say, the new stuff is SO much better. the casting improvements, the detail additions and of course the customisation has skyrocketed since the old days.

im not 100% happy with this paint job, somehow the first time i did it turned out better than this time round, which is just confusing to me. the armour is pure stippling to get the dirty look, and of course the wonders of enamels to grime up the copper and recesses more.

the brown drippy bits are just skin ink freehanded on.

i am working on a youtube video on the process of it but finished these yesterday so havent got around to any editing yet (i have a linktree on my profile if youre interested in that)

feel free to ask any questions about the methods and i can try to explain them here if you like.

Painted my very first TC miniature so far! I am happy how he turned out, even though he is much less grim dark than I expected 🤣

Last four knights for my Cities of Sigmar army in the colours of Nilfgaard. A pleasure to paint !

Asked a buddy what he thought would look cool for him and he suggested an owl. Green and white are a reference to Groningen where he is from.

Miniature is a Victrix knight head on a Victrix Islamic cavalry body and horse as I wanted an earlier look without caprison.

https://www.victrixlimited.com/products/islamic-cavalry?variant=51894195618174

Is there a leprosy epidemic going around or what?

This is my 6th mini and I'm starting to feel like im not getting any better any advice would help. This is my first 40k mini of a grey knight though.

I've never painted green flames before but a little warp lightning glazing over white did a lot of heavy lifting! I think it came out sick

https://firelockgames.com/products/forlorn-hope-unit-buccaneer-storming-party

Ok this happened to me and I’m truly perplexed: I already worked with all these products on exactly the same 3d printed terrain and I have no idea why it happened now. Maybe someone knows what could have caused it? It looks like the paint came off down to primer, and not bare plastic.
Here are the steps I did:

3D printed FDM Terrain
Army painter black rattle can primer
Airbrushed base colours (acrylic)
AK interactive chipping medium
More acrylics
Chipped away some of the acrylics with water
AK Rust Streaks (enamel)

I’m thinking it was the chipping medium doing me dirty like that, but it had something like 32+ hours to dry before I applied the enamels and it never happened before. I did not varnish prior to enamels, but again, I never did and it never caused any problems. Can somebody maybe pinpoint the issue here? Doesn’t look like it’s the primer / printing residue as the primer seems to be fully intact. Any help greatly appreciated, thanks!

My entry for the Grimdark Compendiums Black Chalice competition. Ive never done a diorama before but this was so much fun.

Im a huge Dark Souls fan so I drew a lot of inspiration from that 🖤

Hi there,

I’m a beginner and I’d really appreciate it if you could rate my Elrond miniature from LOTR BGME. Please let me know what you don’t like about it — honest feedback is very important for my progress.

I’m not a complete beginner, but I’m definitely not advanced yet.

Thanks,
Igor