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:3 progress continues on Skorne of Menoth up ins. Morg and Elephant are at the early stage where they've been washed, and the areas that will be highlighted up to red are black. The beast, though, will probably just be given a purple to gray highlight. Basically I think magic poo poo that lives in a desert should have dark skin. Blood runners and a razorworm are primed and based and will be next. Base is same wash as the body, then a kind of watered down half assed drybrush of white to get the sand right, and some detail stuff on the tile. I'm not sure I like how it turned out, and maybe I'll bring in some yellow or something, but I'm fine with it right now. It's basically about a thousand times more effort than I've ever put into basing before.
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... I uh...think I forgot to attach the image. Edit:  Attach didn't work. Sigh.  it's my hosting. Edit again: Er, I guess it finally did. Woops :/ TheCosmicMuffet fucked around with this message at 09:07 on Aug 20, 2011 |
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PierreTheMime posted:I stayed home sick yesterday and knocked out some more Genestealers for my oath. Speaking of images and stuff, I cant see this image. Is it because I just moved to a new place? Same ISP as before but could something be wrong? This thread is not the same without the pics. (hopefully it is just tinypic.com)
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Dominion posted:Painted this guy up tonight. Pretty happy with how he turned out. Or at least I was until I looked at the photo. loving cameras. Did you do the highlights on him by mixing the green color with bleached bone? Like you told me to do. I'll start highlighting soon, been busy with other things for the past few days.
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Just sorting out my paints and throwing away old ones, when I came to 3 realizations: 1) You can never have too many greens 2) I'm heavily invested in Vallejo Model Colour 3) I have no life  I probably use about 10 colour's from that lot.
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Since we're on the topic: would the Reaper HD sets (2 of them at $50 each plus shipping to the UK, probably along with some models because, well, why not?) be a decent investment in paints? I have a few left over, as I've mentioned earlier, from home, which I'm pretty much stuck with until I have significant income, but as and when I do, I'd like to grab a big set with minimal outlay. Is that a good place to start?
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Torabi posted:Did you do the highlights on him by mixing the green color with bleached bone? Like you told me to do. It looks like he might have used scorpion green? It's not about necessarily using bleached bone though, it's just about not using pure white, which tends to desaturate and dull the colour. Using different colours will produce different effects, highlighting your blue with a lighter blue like ice blue will keep it vibrant, whereas using bleached bone will make it more dull and natural. Crossposting my latest space monkey, a daturazi(third from right): 
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richyp posted:Just sorting out my paints and throwing away old ones, when I came to 3 realizations: I thought I had a lot of paints with over 50 :|
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Mr_Happy_Pants posted:I thought I had a lot of paints with over 50 :| To be honest, most of them I've never used. I bought a boxset a couple of years ago when I found one on offer, it contained most of the military colour's seen in the picture above. I've probably used 3-4 of the greys, a couple of the greens, reds and blues, and the metallics. I nearly always mix the colours anyway so I'll grab one grey for example and just work in a lighter grey for the highlights anyway. The big vat of matt medium I can't live without though.
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Mr_Happy_Pants posted:I thought I had a lot of paints with over 50 :| I picked up the GW paint set on the cheap a couple of years ago... Then PV had to go and ruin my  Thankfully, I've made attempts to use all the colors I can across both sets, which is why my Vomit Marine (pics to follow later) is in autumn colors, and my current Librarian project is, of course, blue.
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I just finished my fourth guy. I'll have to ruin him with highlights tomorrow. 
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I've somehow ended up with six greens. No idea how, I haven't used any since I did some orcs maybe 15 years ago.
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If you just make the first (or only) highlight pretty subtle it can't really get worse even if it's sort of sloppy.
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Torabi posted:Did you do the highlights on him by mixing the green color with bleached bone? Like you told me to do. I didn't, actually. He's done with a basecoat of Knarloc Green, then some awesomepaintjob.com Soft Body Black wash, then Snot Green as the main armor color. The highlights are a 50:50 mix of Snot Green and Scorpion Green, and then a final edge highlight of pure Scorpion Green. The black parts are straight black, highlighted with Shadow Grey and then Space Wolves Grey. Paint nerd stuff: I have one of these: http://www.thewarstore.com/product44011.html and it's full to bursting, so I have to find creative ways to store new paints. I too probably use half or less of the paints I own.
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Mr_Happy_Pants posted:Oath thread cross post: I love the "gently caress yeah/haters gon hate" pose he's got going.
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Mr_Happy_Pants posted:Everything about this is really excellent, well done.
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Dominion posted:I love the "gently caress yeah/haters gon hate" pose he's got going. I try to make my jacks look less static and less 'bear hug' and every time it ends up looking like this. To the point in fact that someone did this to a picture of my seether: 
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richyp posted:Just sorting out my paints and throwing away old ones, when I came to 3 realizations: I bought about 50 bottles of that stuff, mostly in greens and browns, when a local store was getting rid of their stock for less than a dollar each. I keep telling myself that I WILL NOT start an army in those colors just to use it. I hate lying to myself.
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Mr_Happy_Pants posted:I kind of like the idea of a Seether with both hands forward and running, like it can't wait to get both down on your throat/chassis/meaty bits. I mean, they are balls of white-hot rage contained in a metallic shell; about as Deathjack as you can get to not being the Deathjack. Speaking of the Deathjack, do those skulls on the shoulders do anything fancy like the 3.5 rules have them do?
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Finished these bad boys but I never got around to posting them in this thread:     The big man himself:  Some detail:    Right now I'm working on a totally badass Belial and a squad of Tac Marines.
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dexefiend posted:Infinity Teutonic Knight HOOOOOOOOOOOOO! This dude got bottom-of-the-paged so I am bumping him to here. I think the added colors and details are a big improvement from the original. He looks a lot more 'finished' and overall you have done a nice job. The base is good too, some details on there without overwhelming the whole model.
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Ashcans posted:This dude got bottom-of-the-paged so I am bumping him to here. I think the added colors and details are a big improvement from the original. He looks a lot more 'finished' and overall you have done a nice job. The base is good too, some details on there without overwhelming the whole model. Thanks for this. I need some help on finishing his right hip, right hand, and his sword hilt. Any suggestions?
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dexefiend posted:Thanks for this. It's a little hard to see what is on his right hip - I think there is a spare magazine for his gun, and some sort of other dohicky? I would paint the magazine to match his gun, and maybe through some blue on the other item. That depends a little on what it is, if it's a specific game item there might be a better way to paint it. His sword hilt is actually three separate areas; the crossguard, the grip, and that interesting triangle area between the guard and blade. I would probably paint the guard (and pommel) in the same tactical black look you have for the gun. The grip I would maybe do in leather, but bare metal or any color would work. The triangle, I'm not sure. It looks like that is a powered blade of some sort, so maybe put in a contrast color to make it look like a power supply? Otherwise, it's a neat little flat space to put some iconography if you are feeling up to freehanding. I think that if you pick out the hilt and guard, the hand could stay as it is. Otherwise maybe just match it to the other one - there's that little green area on the left fist, so you could mirror that.
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That green seems... Really bright? It might just be the bone armor though, but it looks more lime green than forest green.
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Sole.Sushi posted:That green seems... Really bright? It might just be the bone armor though, but it looks more lime green than forest green. The green on his shield is very bright, yeah. I kind of went overboard with the green, but I stand by it. I figured it would be a good way to tie it in with the rest of the model without having it blend in with the other green too much. I went with Snot Green as opposed to Dark Angels Green, since I like how vibrant it is.
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Double posting all up in here because I just painted more stuff: Just wrapped up a tactical squad tonight!  One recruit came from a certain death world, and knows what's what:   My converted multimelta from a heavy flamer:  Shoulderpad detail:  
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SRM posted:Gonna post this Belial I just painted for a friend:  (modeled by me, painted by Hell Diver, who needs to return to painting awesome minis~) The Dark Angels icon is two glued together since they mirror perfectly, and the resulting piece fits perfectly on a Thunder Hammer haft with the front/back parts of the hammer lopped off. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Aug 21, 2011 |
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Captain Invictus posted:If you REALLY wanted to eliminate any trace of the original Lysander affiliation, you could do something like this with the Thunder Hammer head:
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Anyone know how the Reaper HD paints perform? I get the sense they're meant to compete with citadel foundations, but it's a much better range of colors. How does it compare in terms of coverage over black, etc?
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Here's a picture of all of my currently "finished" models. Oldest on the right, newest on the left. The one on the left is the one I am meant to ruin with highlights.  The latest guy posing alone.   I've been putting off highlighting for days. I just mix a little bleached bone with the blue and apply it to places? No idea where though.
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SRM posted:That was your conversion!? I actually was talking to the guy when he was building the model, and I suggested this exact idea to him, since I remember the mini. He thought the idea was awesome, but he didn't have any spare DA icons to go around. I'd wager since there's so many bits sellers online you could find a pair(or two pair if you wanted to try a battleaxe) for next to nothing.
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Torabi posted:I've been putting off highlighting for days. I just mix a little bleached bone with the blue and apply it to places? No idea where though. Just do it to the raised edges. You can see it really easily on the Marines I just posted. For reference: See how all the sharp edges have the lighter blue? That's the highlighting. Use the flat end of your brush to do it, just running along the edges.
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SRM posted:Just do it to the raised edges. You can see it really easily on the Marines I just posted. For reference: Alright. I'll try it soon.
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