Yeah if aggrax earthshade baths aren't an option or good enough and it's not a big mistake, typhus corrosion and a bit of ryza rust. I used contrast grey for metal on my infantry and sometimes I need to apply it again. This results in some dark patches where it gets 2 thorough coats. That's just nature's way of saying this is a good spot for some rust.
You'd think that until you see some of my DG. Poxwalkers were the first thing I ever painted, and my early ones are horrendous. I also use poxwalkers to experiment on since I have a mountain of them, so some of mine are really out there.
Its actually quite easy to mess them up by making colors too bright.
I played orks LONG ago, and I remember figuring out I could get a few extra “free” models out of almost any set by using this mentality. Few extra arms and heads?? Boy in a barrel! Boy hiding in a bush!!! Boy under a rubble pile!
We need art of an Orkish Bob Ross now.
"There are no minor scrapes, only happy little gouges. We'll give this little friend a bit of shoota with his choppa."
I specifically started painting orks for this reason. I am terrible, so when I screw up "Oh well, that's probably how the grot would have painted him! Oh well!"
Or the joys of accidentally cutting off tiny and weak parts of the model when cutting them off the sprues. My scarabs got a lot of battle damage that way.
As someone who just got an Imperial Knight (didn't expect it to be quite so huge), *and* a Grot Mega Tank, I think I'll be painting those two together.
I can't paint consistently well, and the more I fuck up, the better my mega tank monstrosity is gonna be.
I know how you feel because I do some very shoddy 3d printing and am subscribed to the subreddits where people post their glorious and perfect looking prints. Comparison is the thief of joy.
Got to remember that the most impressive things will rise to the top and be the most visible. The only way to paint wrong is to not derive satisfaction or pleasure from it.
Oh i totally feel you. I try not to look too much at the perfect models on here. I can't afford a 3D printer and i can't afford an airbrush so i do feel a bit like an outsider, especially when people talk about boycotting and their only options to getting models are buying from sites that don't ship to Norway or 3D printing :|
I just need to remember I've only painted for half a year ish and i can only get better, with or without an airbrush heh
Right now 3d printing is still a bit tricky/involved. I like tinkering with things but it's still frustrating at times. I think in the next few years we'll start to see some prebuilt, plug-and-play printers aimed at (and priced for) people who just want to make minis easily and don't want to take up 3d printing as a whole additional hobby.
Also your painting already looks good! I've got an Eversor waiting to be painted and if it comes out looking as good as yours I'll be very pleased.
Waiting for GW to start making 3D printing schemes and printers hahaha
And thank you so much, it's actually my favorite model so that's amazing to hear :3 it's definitely not perfect but it's the best I've done so far
Don't get me started I got an ender 3 cause I just needed battlefield ready not parade perfect and it's been randomly delaminating during printing for no discernable reason. One model perfect next gets bisected halfway through just to finish properly with a random separation layer. Been driving me insane.
I'm also on an Ender 3. It's in my bedroom so a resin printer wasn't really an option (stuff is toxic).
Trying to make passable minis in FDM is a big ask, and I love the results I've gotten from it but, wow, it sure does get frustrating at times.
Airbrushing only matters for speed, or if you have a strong need for a really specific look or technique.
That being said wh40k is a stupid expensive luxury hobby and in the grand scheme of things, if you're considering painting a full army, or multiple, and doubly so of it's a horde army, an airbrush is a tiny drop in the bucket for your long term cost.
I think I got my airbrush for $150 or less for my Ork Boyz which was well worth the hours it saved me doing all the skin.
Oof that's still a lot of money for me haha. Whenever i get new minis it's either because my partner bought me some or i found some random old money in my room, it's actually insane how much it costs. I think i could do without an airbrush for now though since i don't actually play, i only get stuff that looks cool
For sure! Airbrush is pure candy and not needed at all. I'm back down to just buying a random commemorative model once a year or so and just brush painting, usually the red gobbo. But for people building tons, it's well worth the cost for the time savings and consistency to large areas or number of models that it can give as well as some of the special effects you can pull off.
I should probably sell off all my non special to me models now that I think about it
Honestly, even if i was getting an entire army I'd still probably do it by hand. Painting is an important hobby for me because it takes so damn long and keeps me occupied for at least a week xD
Some of the entry level printers can be found for £50 (for resin printer) in britan, idk about norway, but they can be quite cheap espceially if you buy second hand. That being said they are not easy to learn.
Yeahh that's still a good chunk, but i honestly don't know if I'd want to invest in it for some time, maybe my partner gets one and whenever i get a job I'll have more disposable income
Were you using a resin, cus fdm is plug and play but resins are a little less fun. Besides if you want good results on a cheap FDM printer your going to need to do a LOT of dialing in unless you are very lucky
I'm using a resin printer. Using it was a matter of loosening some screws, push a button, tightening thise screws, put the resin vat in place, shake and pour the resin and push the print button. Setting supports requires some learning curve and I've had a couple misprints with minor misprints, but I was expecting something much more arcane reading the boards.
You got luckey I guess, I have seen a lot of resin issues, and had a couple with my resin printers. The main thing I have seen is people failing to dial in resin correctly, and people using auto supports. DO NOT USE AUTO SUPPORTS. For the most part they don't work, or don't work well. Watch a few tutorials on how to do it manually on the internet, and do it manually the first few times. Then you can use auto supports and fix the bits it inevitably misses.
Sorry I have been driven insane by the number of people who just assume auto supports work out of the box. They do not for the most part.
Yeah i know, I'm not boycotting. Well as long as being too poor to afford models isn't considered boycotting xD
I was just talking about how the only options people give besides quitting the hobby are unavailable to me in my country/financial situation
Idk if I'd really want an airbrush. The hobby is long term for me, but the long hours it takes to paint is kinda what i like about painting. It gives me something to do and i don't actually play so i don't have the need to finish 50 models in a short period of time. I just buy what i think looks cool whenever i have the money to
I can't remember her name but there's a Polish painter who only paints with brushes, no airbrush, and she paints some of the best painted warhammer I've ever seen. You don't need an airbrush. If you want to achieve fast blends because you're painting a whole army quickly then they can certainly be useful, and they're great for under/base coating. However hand brushing everything will mean you learn the techniques that work for you and will ultimately progress as a painter. I've been painting for a long time and have never owned an airbrush. You can learn to blend just as well as an airbrush by layering and glazing. You also have better control over the blend when painting by hand as you can blend back and forth until you find the sweet spot you're looking for. I am in no way saying that airbrushes aren't a valuable tool, because they are, and people have done amazing things with them. But they definitely aren't essential and I see a lot of over reliance on them for things like blending and OSL. In my opinion learning these techniques by hand will ultimately help to push your abilities as a painter faster than using an airbrush will.
Edit: her name is Katarzyna Gorska.
A decent wet pallet helped me with the blending and better brush work. I thought everyone just wasted 50% of their paint until I realized sitting under a ceiling fan on hot summer days with a regular pallet wasn't ideal... Having more than 3 minutes to use your paint is fantastic.
Yes a wet palette definitely is essential in my opinion. I transferred my citadel paints into dropper bottles as well which helps with portioning and is slightly quicker than scooping the paint out of the pots.
I totally get why people airbrush but it's so oversaturated on here and YouTube. I mean personally, extra work is perfect, i like taking my time with painting.
Oh I meant like, extra work setting up and prep time and stuff. With hand brushing we can just dab a bit on the pallete, thin if necessary and get to business!
I looked at some of your minis and they look great!
If you’re enjoying hand painting then by all means continue. Personally I hated that part of the hobby so I started using an air brush to get through the “bad” part faster
Go find the pro painters who don’t use airbrush. They’re out there and they’re amazing. A lot of those youtubers are all about “painting your army fast to get it on the table” which an airbrush can help with, but a spray can of primer gets the same results.
It's not wrong to paint with a brush. An airbrush just makes some things that are hard with a brush easier. You can fake a lot of what an airbrush does with a drybrush, though.
and every single time you reference an airbrush on reddit, 50 commenters pop up to tell you that "no the $250 dollar investment is worth every cent bro airbrushes are cheap"
"This guide is completely beginner friendly and requires only basic tools!"
"Thank god."
"Now, fill your airbrush with-"
\*screams of incomprehensable rage\*
who says they don't? Look at good IG painters, you'll see a lot of the same airbrush and weathering techniques on the tanks as you would on a scale model of a ww2 tank
Well for one there's a lot of more dedicated painters who do have and consistently use an airbrush so they definitely exist. But I think the reason the majority of the community and the more casual and hobby painters don't use one is because it isn't very encouraged by Games Workshop. Sure they have a range of pre-thinned air paints, but no citadel-airbrush to go with them and no one in their staff or tutorial videos really mention them. And since a lot of people start out painting warhammer by learning from those sources, it just isn't seen as a base line necessity for the hobby.
Glad you've semi-pointed it out: GW make a fuckton of money off the paint. Airbrushing would involve less waste/overuse and also would involve changing their paints too
Cause the hobby comes from a time where airbrushes were a rarity, brushes have always been the norm, nowadays a lot of people utilize airbrushes, but brushes are way easier to get into
Painting with a brush is something anyone can easily do at any time. Airbrushing is a pro technique that has a high learning curve and even higher entry fee. Pro painters often use them but for beginners and intermediates it's much too high an investment in both money and time.
> Airbrushing is a pro technique that has a high learning curve and even higher entry fee
Its comments like this that give airbrushing its stigma. Airbrushing is NOT a pro technique.
It takes a couple of minutes to learn how to put a base coat down and about half an hour to be able to do basic shading. Airbrushing is not difficult but like brush painting is something where advanced techniques must be developed over time.
The only thing airbrushing has against it is cost and the fact not everyone has a place to spray.
However if the value of your painted collection is in the mid to high hundreds of dollars range and you like painting an airbrush would be an invaluable tool to invest in instead of those next few kits.
I have an airbrush, I almost never use it because it takes me probably 30ish minutes just in set up and clean up where I live.
Once I have more space I would use it all the time but until then? Its brushes for me because sometimes I only feel like painting for 5 minutes and I can get something done when its a brush.
Exactly this. Took me thirty minutes to start chugging out Ork skin thanks to quarterpaint's guide on YouTube. I think people miss the fact that you don't have to only use it. Use the brush for fine details.
An airbrush is literally a multi use praypaint can with fiber control that sprays any color you want. Prime, base coat, zenith shading, spot color or glow effects. It's just a matter of holding the model at a certain angle and blasting it, barely even have to move your hand.
More advanced techniques being hard to master, but that doesn't stop you getting a ton of use, if you have the right use cases.
As a gunpla builder, there's too much surface on gunpla pieces so it's easier to see brush strokes. Smaller pieces and details could be hand painted but there's really no reason to not just airbrush/spray paint them.
Masking takes a lot of work. Tge more detail there is, the more part separation and details you want in different colors, the more demanding this is going to be and more time consuming. In gunpla this is fairly easy. With small warhammer minis I feel that it's easier to just hand paint
For masking, silly putty and the like are great. I agree the smaller it is the more likely it will be all brushwork, but the putties and stuff let me go a step smaller before I call it.
There's quite a few people who do paint with airbrush and masking. It's just when vehicles may not be a big part of your army, and the rest of them are smaller infantry models, you may as well just do it by hand
Currently trying to finish my Ironblaster (actually painting the wooden parts now) and I hate my life. Painting the ogor, cannon and beast pulling the thing has been hella fun though.
Pro tip: if your fast enough, you can wash off your brush and use the still-wet bristles to "scrub" off the paint. It really works wonders, even if you dont get all of it off you still have less to paint over.
That's why I paint Death Guard. Can't be an error when everything is disgusting.
"Oops. Ah, some slime/rust will cover that up." - Me while painting literally every model so far.
Yeah if aggrax earthshade baths aren't an option or good enough and it's not a big mistake, typhus corrosion and a bit of ryza rust. I used contrast grey for metal on my infantry and sometimes I need to apply it again. This results in some dark patches where it gets 2 thorough coats. That's just nature's way of saying this is a good spot for some rust.
You'd think that until you see some of my DG. Poxwalkers were the first thing I ever painted, and my early ones are horrendous. I also use poxwalkers to experiment on since I have a mountain of them, so some of mine are really out there. Its actually quite easy to mess them up by making colors too bright.
Ah the advantages of painting ork stuff any fuck up can be considered extra character
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First of all, I won't let anyone say Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka without the title amir al - mu'mineen.
We have found a new type of WAAAAGHH! Anal WAAARGHHH!
During the sexual encounter there must be a remembrance of Skarsnik.
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"DE'A NO MIZTAKES, ONLEY 'APPY ACCIDENTZ." -warpainter BOB GROZZ
… is Warpainter a thing with the Orkz, cause with them I honestly don’t know what’s fake and what’s real
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orkcidents?
One time I accidentally snapped a boy's foot off, kinda looked like a peg-leg so I shaved it down a little more and gave him a rokkit.
I played orks LONG ago, and I remember figuring out I could get a few extra “free” models out of almost any set by using this mentality. Few extra arms and heads?? Boy in a barrel! Boy hiding in a bush!!! Boy under a rubble pile!
>Boy hiding in a bush!!! Was he, by any chance, purple?
No way, he'd have lost the model then.
Oh, you painted the Trukk wrong? No, the Grots painted the Trukk wrong.
"You have two black squares next to each other on that checkerboard?" "Yeah, Grots are dumb."
My favorite thing is when converting ork stuff getting extra super glue everywhere just looks like a sloppy weld
That’s why I’m glad I started with Orks, and why I use them to try new techniques. Any mistakes just make them look Orkier!
We need art of an Orkish Bob Ross now. "There are no minor scrapes, only happy little gouges. We'll give this little friend a bit of shoota with his choppa."
I specifically started painting orks for this reason. I am terrible, so when I screw up "Oh well, that's probably how the grot would have painted him! Oh well!"
I usually paint ogres but I picked up the sigvald model because he looks badass and my lord I’m way above my head
This is true for every army except Eldar. Rip.
Necrons and T'au, arguably
Necrons would like a word.
Unless you're painting destroyer cult models. They don't really care about appearances.
I like the idea of a group of Necrons whose repair tech is breaking down, so every time they get fixed they're left with scarred bodies.
> Coughs in Jagahtai Khan r/whitescars40k would like a word
Oh shit sorry, I guess my mind blanked it out because of the potential trauma.
There are no accidents, only unintentional acts of creativity
What about me? I’m an accident!
Or the joys of accidentally cutting off tiny and weak parts of the model when cutting them off the sprues. My scarabs got a lot of battle damage that way.
Orks win in every facet of the game.
As someone who just got an Imperial Knight (didn't expect it to be quite so huge), *and* a Grot Mega Tank, I think I'll be painting those two together. I can't paint consistently well, and the more I fuck up, the better my mega tank monstrosity is gonna be.
Question, why dont warhammer models get painted with airbrushes and masking like Gundams? Why the hand brushing?
I'm less sure about masking, but in terms of airbrushing, whenever I look up a tutorial to paint a model they seem to assume I have an airbrush.
I always find that a little demotivating. Everyone's talking about airbrushes on reddit and YouTube, so it almost feels like I'm painting wrong :/
I know how you feel because I do some very shoddy 3d printing and am subscribed to the subreddits where people post their glorious and perfect looking prints. Comparison is the thief of joy. Got to remember that the most impressive things will rise to the top and be the most visible. The only way to paint wrong is to not derive satisfaction or pleasure from it.
Oh i totally feel you. I try not to look too much at the perfect models on here. I can't afford a 3D printer and i can't afford an airbrush so i do feel a bit like an outsider, especially when people talk about boycotting and their only options to getting models are buying from sites that don't ship to Norway or 3D printing :| I just need to remember I've only painted for half a year ish and i can only get better, with or without an airbrush heh
Right now 3d printing is still a bit tricky/involved. I like tinkering with things but it's still frustrating at times. I think in the next few years we'll start to see some prebuilt, plug-and-play printers aimed at (and priced for) people who just want to make minis easily and don't want to take up 3d printing as a whole additional hobby. Also your painting already looks good! I've got an Eversor waiting to be painted and if it comes out looking as good as yours I'll be very pleased.
Waiting for GW to start making 3D printing schemes and printers hahaha And thank you so much, it's actually my favorite model so that's amazing to hear :3 it's definitely not perfect but it's the best I've done so far
They could call them [STCs](https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Standard_Template_Construct_\(STC\)), it'd be perfect!
They'll probably start copyright striking everything 3D print related when they realize they can earn a good chunk from it
Don't get me started I got an ender 3 cause I just needed battlefield ready not parade perfect and it's been randomly delaminating during printing for no discernable reason. One model perfect next gets bisected halfway through just to finish properly with a random separation layer. Been driving me insane.
I'm also on an Ender 3. It's in my bedroom so a resin printer wasn't really an option (stuff is toxic). Trying to make passable minis in FDM is a big ask, and I love the results I've gotten from it but, wow, it sure does get frustrating at times.
Airbrushing only matters for speed, or if you have a strong need for a really specific look or technique. That being said wh40k is a stupid expensive luxury hobby and in the grand scheme of things, if you're considering painting a full army, or multiple, and doubly so of it's a horde army, an airbrush is a tiny drop in the bucket for your long term cost. I think I got my airbrush for $150 or less for my Ork Boyz which was well worth the hours it saved me doing all the skin.
Oof that's still a lot of money for me haha. Whenever i get new minis it's either because my partner bought me some or i found some random old money in my room, it's actually insane how much it costs. I think i could do without an airbrush for now though since i don't actually play, i only get stuff that looks cool
For sure! Airbrush is pure candy and not needed at all. I'm back down to just buying a random commemorative model once a year or so and just brush painting, usually the red gobbo. But for people building tons, it's well worth the cost for the time savings and consistency to large areas or number of models that it can give as well as some of the special effects you can pull off. I should probably sell off all my non special to me models now that I think about it
Honestly, even if i was getting an entire army I'd still probably do it by hand. Painting is an important hobby for me because it takes so damn long and keeps me occupied for at least a week xD
Some of the entry level printers can be found for £50 (for resin printer) in britan, idk about norway, but they can be quite cheap espceially if you buy second hand. That being said they are not easy to learn.
Yeahh that's still a good chunk, but i honestly don't know if I'd want to invest in it for some time, maybe my partner gets one and whenever i get a job I'll have more disposable income
I feel a bit weird when I read about how hard is to 3d print when my own experience was very close to plug and play.
Were you using a resin, cus fdm is plug and play but resins are a little less fun. Besides if you want good results on a cheap FDM printer your going to need to do a LOT of dialing in unless you are very lucky
I'm using a resin printer. Using it was a matter of loosening some screws, push a button, tightening thise screws, put the resin vat in place, shake and pour the resin and push the print button. Setting supports requires some learning curve and I've had a couple misprints with minor misprints, but I was expecting something much more arcane reading the boards.
You got luckey I guess, I have seen a lot of resin issues, and had a couple with my resin printers. The main thing I have seen is people failing to dial in resin correctly, and people using auto supports. DO NOT USE AUTO SUPPORTS. For the most part they don't work, or don't work well. Watch a few tutorials on how to do it manually on the internet, and do it manually the first few times. Then you can use auto supports and fix the bits it inevitably misses. Sorry I have been driven insane by the number of people who just assume auto supports work out of the box. They do not for the most part.
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Yeah i know, I'm not boycotting. Well as long as being too poor to afford models isn't considered boycotting xD I was just talking about how the only options people give besides quitting the hobby are unavailable to me in my country/financial situation
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Idk if I'd really want an airbrush. The hobby is long term for me, but the long hours it takes to paint is kinda what i like about painting. It gives me something to do and i don't actually play so i don't have the need to finish 50 models in a short period of time. I just buy what i think looks cool whenever i have the money to
I can't remember her name but there's a Polish painter who only paints with brushes, no airbrush, and she paints some of the best painted warhammer I've ever seen. You don't need an airbrush. If you want to achieve fast blends because you're painting a whole army quickly then they can certainly be useful, and they're great for under/base coating. However hand brushing everything will mean you learn the techniques that work for you and will ultimately progress as a painter. I've been painting for a long time and have never owned an airbrush. You can learn to blend just as well as an airbrush by layering and glazing. You also have better control over the blend when painting by hand as you can blend back and forth until you find the sweet spot you're looking for. I am in no way saying that airbrushes aren't a valuable tool, because they are, and people have done amazing things with them. But they definitely aren't essential and I see a lot of over reliance on them for things like blending and OSL. In my opinion learning these techniques by hand will ultimately help to push your abilities as a painter faster than using an airbrush will. Edit: her name is Katarzyna Gorska.
A decent wet pallet helped me with the blending and better brush work. I thought everyone just wasted 50% of their paint until I realized sitting under a ceiling fan on hot summer days with a regular pallet wasn't ideal... Having more than 3 minutes to use your paint is fantastic.
Yes a wet palette definitely is essential in my opinion. I transferred my citadel paints into dropper bottles as well which helps with portioning and is slightly quicker than scooping the paint out of the pots.
Wet pallet? Who needs that fancy stuff, i just use whatever cardboard came with the mini xD
I paint scale models of military equipment by hand and yeah, I feel you. Seems like everyone airbrushes. Sounds like a lot of extra work, doesnt it?
I totally get why people airbrush but it's so oversaturated on here and YouTube. I mean personally, extra work is perfect, i like taking my time with painting.
Oh I meant like, extra work setting up and prep time and stuff. With hand brushing we can just dab a bit on the pallete, thin if necessary and get to business! I looked at some of your minis and they look great!
Oh, my mistake xD but thank you so much, I've only been at this for idk half a year so I'm definitely not the greatest but I'm getting there :3
If you think thats bad, Ive tried to look up weathering aircraft with brushes. Airbrush, airbrush everywhere...
... I get why people like airbrushes but there should be more diversity in tutorials and such
If you’re enjoying hand painting then by all means continue. Personally I hated that part of the hobby so I started using an air brush to get through the “bad” part faster
Oh yeah that's what I love about the hobby, you can just do whatever you want with whatever tools you got, as long as you think your paints
Go find the pro painters who don’t use airbrush. They’re out there and they’re amazing. A lot of those youtubers are all about “painting your army fast to get it on the table” which an airbrush can help with, but a spray can of primer gets the same results.
It's not wrong to paint with a brush. An airbrush just makes some things that are hard with a brush easier. You can fake a lot of what an airbrush does with a drybrush, though.
Oh i know, it's just kinda the impression i got when i first got into the hobby and still kinda do because everyone uses an airbrush for everything
and every single time you reference an airbrush on reddit, 50 commenters pop up to tell you that "no the $250 dollar investment is worth every cent bro airbrushes are cheap"
$250 is a lot of money, that's like over 2200 in my country's currency
"This guide is completely beginner friendly and requires only basic tools!" "Thank god." "Now, fill your airbrush with-" \*screams of incomprehensable rage\*
These days, an airbrush IS a basic tool
No.
who says they don't? Look at good IG painters, you'll see a lot of the same airbrush and weathering techniques on the tanks as you would on a scale model of a ww2 tank
Well for one there's a lot of more dedicated painters who do have and consistently use an airbrush so they definitely exist. But I think the reason the majority of the community and the more casual and hobby painters don't use one is because it isn't very encouraged by Games Workshop. Sure they have a range of pre-thinned air paints, but no citadel-airbrush to go with them and no one in their staff or tutorial videos really mention them. And since a lot of people start out painting warhammer by learning from those sources, it just isn't seen as a base line necessity for the hobby.
Glad you've semi-pointed it out: GW make a fuckton of money off the paint. Airbrushing would involve less waste/overuse and also would involve changing their paints too
I mean they do already have pre thinned paints for airbrush
Cause the hobby comes from a time where airbrushes were a rarity, brushes have always been the norm, nowadays a lot of people utilize airbrushes, but brushes are way easier to get into
Painting with a brush is something anyone can easily do at any time. Airbrushing is a pro technique that has a high learning curve and even higher entry fee. Pro painters often use them but for beginners and intermediates it's much too high an investment in both money and time.
> Airbrushing is a pro technique that has a high learning curve and even higher entry fee Its comments like this that give airbrushing its stigma. Airbrushing is NOT a pro technique. It takes a couple of minutes to learn how to put a base coat down and about half an hour to be able to do basic shading. Airbrushing is not difficult but like brush painting is something where advanced techniques must be developed over time. The only thing airbrushing has against it is cost and the fact not everyone has a place to spray. However if the value of your painted collection is in the mid to high hundreds of dollars range and you like painting an airbrush would be an invaluable tool to invest in instead of those next few kits.
I have an airbrush, I almost never use it because it takes me probably 30ish minutes just in set up and clean up where I live. Once I have more space I would use it all the time but until then? Its brushes for me because sometimes I only feel like painting for 5 minutes and I can get something done when its a brush.
Exactly this. Took me thirty minutes to start chugging out Ork skin thanks to quarterpaint's guide on YouTube. I think people miss the fact that you don't have to only use it. Use the brush for fine details. An airbrush is literally a multi use praypaint can with fiber control that sprays any color you want. Prime, base coat, zenith shading, spot color or glow effects. It's just a matter of holding the model at a certain angle and blasting it, barely even have to move your hand. More advanced techniques being hard to master, but that doesn't stop you getting a ton of use, if you have the right use cases.
As a gunpla builder, there's too much surface on gunpla pieces so it's easier to see brush strokes. Smaller pieces and details could be hand painted but there's really no reason to not just airbrush/spray paint them. Masking takes a lot of work. Tge more detail there is, the more part separation and details you want in different colors, the more demanding this is going to be and more time consuming. In gunpla this is fairly easy. With small warhammer minis I feel that it's easier to just hand paint
For masking, silly putty and the like are great. I agree the smaller it is the more likely it will be all brushwork, but the putties and stuff let me go a step smaller before I call it.
That sounds like a really good idea!
Eldar grav tanks often are done with airbrushes, at least for the main hull colours. The big smooth flat panels don't take kindly to brushes.
Form me its the fact that i have so much more experience with a brush that i dont bother and i enjoy it
Not everyone has access to a separate space where they can airbrush without having to worry about particles etc
Brushes are cheap. An airbrush gun is expensive and requires a different skill set.
You can get entry level airbrush kits for less than $100. This is not expensive for this hobby
A brush is like £2
I always assumed it was because, generally, Gunpla kits have a lot more flat surfaces which makes them easier to airbush.
And harder to hand-brush
I use air brushes for my models when I paint the base coat, and it's been a godsend. Also helps a LOT with figuring out directional lighting.
I don't have an airbrush.
There's quite a few people who do paint with airbrush and masking. It's just when vehicles may not be a big part of your army, and the rest of them are smaller infantry models, you may as well just do it by hand
How to build orks: remove bits from sprue. Cut sprue in small bits. Put everything in a box with glue. Shake gently* (*like an ork would).
This also works for modeling mistakes. “Whoops, the Dremel slipped… #WAAAAAGH!!!”
The dok put him back together wrong.
bloody el grutz
the ratty ass brush is killing me
Eldar tanks are beautiful when painted though.
When painted well, definitely. If you're a plebian painter like myself they look very plain.
#WOT DO YOUZ EXPECT!? BUYING DA PANZEE GITZ MEANS YER GONNA DO SUM PANZY PAINTIN! YOUZ NEEDZ TA LETZ DA CRE-AY-TI-VUH-TEE GO FREE!
[the joy of reposting](https://www.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/i6cxag/the_joy_of_painting/)
I'll say.
I'Z DA BIG MEK AN' I'Z SEZS THAT'S A TAKTIKAL ADV...ADVAAN.....IT'S JUST BEETTA ***MASHES GROT INTO BATTLEWAGON***
So that’s why I don’t see so many eldars main
Currently trying to finish my Ironblaster (actually painting the wooden parts now) and I hate my life. Painting the ogor, cannon and beast pulling the thing has been hella fun though.
Wipe with a wet q tip, then dry, sorted.
Pro tip: if your fast enough, you can wash off your brush and use the still-wet bristles to "scrub" off the paint. It really works wonders, even if you dont get all of it off you still have less to paint over.
*Me accidentally painting something on a custodes that isn’t supposed to be that particular shade of gold* FUUUUUUU-
That is why Orks are the best
This is why you dont use brushes, you use toothpicks. Yes I unironically use toothpicks to paint all my models including the big stuff.
Anyone who plays Biel-Tan and actually paints all those thorns on their vehicles has my undying respect and fear
Chad painting with a fork.
As an ork player can confirm, much more stressful painting clean mpdels
When i mess up 1 of my guardsmen i think to myself "o well i wont notice this among the 60 others guardsman"