Warhammer (with the models and everything)

Paint woes. My hormagaunts get a little red talon accent with orange specks down the root. Quite time consuming, but I basically had this and then the claw/hoof highlights left before varnishing and the rest.

Get the red stripe bit done on the ten in about 45 minutes, quite pleased with that.

Open my Fenrisian Grey, which is my highlight colour for all of the black claws in the army, and from which I will not do a substitute, and it’s basically turned into a lump of what looks like blu-tack.

Have tried pouring Lahmian Medium in and stirring (this has saved some tacky pots in the past) but it’s beyond that - although I’m now down a load of medium too. Tried breaking it up with the tail end of an old brush - it just makes lumps that won’t stir in.

Have ended up spending nearly 7 quid to get what should be a 3 quid pot on prime delivery from Amazon. So frustrating and I totally get Danno’s pain from the other night.

Looking at my order history it actually looks like the dead pot was from Amazon too - that was in March 2021 so I reckon they have a shelf life of about three to four years before that bottle design dries them out and basically destroys your paint. This only seems to happen with my go-to colours as well - stuff I hardly use may separate but doesn’t do this. Abaddon black is terrible for it - that’s a really fast drying paint on the models too.

So close to finishing too - I need to do a paint audit and then plan a visit to a bricks and mortar shop I think.

EDIT - f*ck me that took a lot of editing to get somewhat coherent. Apologies if you caught the various drafts, one of which had an unintended Xenos double entendre.

For all the dead paint woes - anyone tried one of those vibrating doodahs ? Just reminded of a Squidmar(?) vid I caught over the weekend, testing Temu crap, only for him to find a £20 one exactly the same as his £100+ artisan one.

Dunno if it'd help+medium, but just a thought. And you can substitute Lahmian for other mediums - get the big Galleria pots out of The Range for much cheapness.

The smaller shops are generally staffed by one person. That’s why they keep weird hours. You may find that as a result they are not open every day so I would advise to google the opening hours *and* if you have access look at the Facey for that shop (there will be one) to check for any unexpected closures - I’ve been caught out before.

I have two shops local-ish but not ‘lunch break local’ at all. To have one in your actual home town must be brill.

At said small shop the guy showed me some models he’d used contrast black on - I think it’s black templars. To me it looked almost exactly like Abaddon that needed another coat. Although that Warhipster guy loves it.

I tend to find Abaddon does need two coats - one at medium thickness and then one very thinned watery coat does it for me, although maybe more on a big area. The fact it dries so quickly at least helps to get this done but I do think it adds to the pot drying.

Have discussed the dropper bottle thing on here before and my conclusion was that yep in an ideal world I would, but the cost and time of doing it is probably greater than just re-buying a few pots a year.

Shopping for paints etc is the biggest pain in the balls in the hobby I reckon.
I've had a huge hiatus on doing any plastic modelling and have built up a big backlog - squad of new terminators, 4 WW2 German winter tank riders, a panzer 3, a panzer 6, a jagdpanzer 4, 3 SAS desert jeeps all in various stages of assembly and paint.

I needed a bottle of odorless thinner for doing an oil dot filter on a Nachin Tank model I got 3 years ago at christmas so on to Scale Model Shop. The cost of delivery is nearly that of the bottle so I add on some chipping medium and pipettes. Bumps the money up but at least I think i'm being sensible.

To be able to walk in to a shop and have everything there would be amazing but there isn't on in the whole of Glasgow like that. One that does Tamiya paints and Humbrol and that's it. I use AK 3rd Gen ffs.

I used to (badly) model jets as a teen and Humbrol and Revell had an absolute stranglehold on the market. It was all enamel paints you had to open with a knife. The smell of them was absolutely delicious. I guess these will be massively obsolete in that military modelling world? Thinking of the racks of those little tins in Toymaster is a real nostalgia blast.

I use Wayland Games for most of my paint purchases - mostly because of their £20 free delivery to be honest.

I’ve seen that done before - but the notable effect is the texture paint - that’s really cool and is a spin I haven’t seen.

Although we’re in ‘Votann exposed bubble canopy’ territory when you have a predator style cloak that tactically covers about 1/3 of your bright yellow armour suit 😂

So Warhammer you have to love it.

HERETIC!

PSA: Games Workshop is the leading factor in the spontaneous growth of Quattos among males aged 15 to 45.

Ok that makes sense now

That’s superb. Always loved minotaurs as a kid so thought beastmen were sick!

Painting these Necromunda bases is making me feel like I'm engineering Pog slammers.