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Sweet! Just wondering why ur skaven have snow and the wyrdstone doesn't? Very tidy painting... the darker skaven in particular has great highlighting on the cloak.

-DMG-

Damage - I wanted to keep the Wyrdstone sort of neutral with it's basing.

Thanks for the compliments.

I hope to have another model finished sometime soon. Didn't get quite as much done yesterday at work as I would have liked.

nice ratmen!!!
it looks like you've taken a leap with the skills...
the nmm gold bracelet on the first skaven looks really good, but those blades look way too clean...one advantage of nmm is the ability to paint a much more visible tone of weatherin'without havin' to go over the top)...even just some orangey brown washes along the hilt and up the blade a bit will lend more atmosphere to the minis...
keep up the good work...

cheers
jah

jah-joshua wrote:nice ratmen!!!
it looks like you've taken a leap with the skills...
the nmm gold bracelet on the first skaven looks really good, but those blades look way too clean...one advantage of nmm is the ability to paint a much more visible tone of weatherin'without havin' to go over the top)...even just some orangey brown washes along the hilt and up the blade a bit will lend more atmosphere to the minis...
keep up the good work...

cheers
jah

I've been thinking about how I would want to go about weathering these guys if I did. Thanks for the advice on the washes, I was thinking that would work out well, but I didn't want to experiment just yet with it. Right now it's all about getting them painted up for the campaign and learning a a few techniques along the way ^_-. I'll keep your advice in mind as I get some more time to go back and do a little bit more detailing later.

Ok, so I buckled down and finished this bad boy. I have to say, he was not easy to paint at all. Lots of little detail, some of which doesn't take paint very well at all. But I got him finished to a pretty good standard, and I'm just sick of messing with him at this point x.x.

You can see I used the Adept to help tie the other two together more. While each model will be different, the colors will tie them together quite nicely. Go Go Limited Color Palette!

Comments and crits much appreciated.

Some more progress with my warband. They're coming along a bit slower than I'd like them to, but these models are friggin detailed as hell. It's hard to rush something like that when they're so important to making the model have some real character and stand out in a band of 10 or so models.

I also got my first few games in for the campaign (I played with a half silver warband...). You can see my thoughts on those here in my Skirmish Scale Games thread.

A small disclaimer about the pictures: I just moved into a new place, and don't have the same set up as before, so while I'm figuring all of the lighting out, I apologize for the quality.

Anyways, On with the photos.

Those are some great lookin' Skaven!

Beautiful little Skaven. They Look wonderful. The limited colors does make them look great together.

Thanks for the compliments guys ^_^. I'm really hoping they'll look just as good across the board as I finish more of them along the way. Hopefully I can at least have the base warband completely painted by the end of the campaign.

For my next model, I've gone with my fighting claws black skaven (The Black skaven that's painted without the weeping blade has become a henchman!).



The funny part is that he's probably about 45%-50% completed right now >.>...I'm sure you know where I'm going with this guy. Stay tuned.

As always, C&C welcome and appreciated!

Nice as always Grey. On the newest painted pics, are those metal models? Or plastic just done very well?

Either way, the crew is shaping up nicely.

- Salvage

Boss_Salvage wrote:Nice as always Grey. On the newest painted pics, are those metal models? Or plastic just done very well?

Either way, the crew is shaping up nicely.

- Salvage

Thanks man. The newest guys are metal gutterrunners. For some reason I can't stand the plastics with their huge chunky arms and weapons...Maybe with enough GS work they could look nice...but as is, I just couldn't bring myself to pick them up. Running out of options for different models though since the metal line is somewhat limited for what I want/need.

I havent been here for a while, and imagine my surprise, when i get back to check your stuff and see that, your already achieved painting tecnique, has developed a LOT in this time... great evolution mate!

Nice work Grey!!! My comments stand and I am enjoying the trip

I really appreciate the compliments guys.

I've been talking with migs about the direction my painting is going in.

I've been really just focusing 100% on my technical painting ability as of late. I've been pouring all of my effort into learning with each piece.

With that though, I've come to realize (thanks to migs!) that I've really been letting my own style and influence flounder some. That's not to say that I haven't put myself into each piece, it's just that I have put technical ability above personal 'flair' on my priority list while I go about painting each new model.

For the folks out there that enjoy watching me grow as a painter, I'd expect to see more of 'me' in new projects in the future.

And with your words, there is much rejoycing!

I always love looking over models to see the individual... I want to say flaws, but there's nothing wrong with them. The individual... personality! That's the word, personality. You can see it resonate from the pieces that the painters truly pour themselves into. I think your already amazing work will become so much better with your new painting personality!

New project piece started. I've decided to try my hand at creating a fantasy based building. This is all influenced by how much fun I'm having digging into Mordheim. This piece is going to be a complete building, much unlike what most people come to associate with Mordheim. It's all in an effort to try out some things in the construction of the building and see how well I can emulate some of the concept work I've come to admire from Warhammer Online on the tabletop.

To start me off, I've used a piece of precut and beveled MDF I had laying about. It was originally going to be used for a tree/shack template. But I didn't feel like cutting and sanding down another piece, so it was hijacked.

I measured out some pink insulation foam (1" thick) to the dimensions I wanted and got to cutting them out. After dry-fitting them, I sanded the edges a bit to make them fit a slight better.



I then glued the pieces together using small pieces of wood pushed into the joining edges of the foam to help lock them more firmly in place. At this time I also glued everything to the base.

At them moment I'm just waiting for the glue to dry before I continue the construction.

I'm planning on the first section being 5" tall, followed by a smaller, yet wider, section on top of that in standard half timber design.

All the pink foam will be stone work. I'm still undecided on just HOW I'll go about working the stone. I could very well just press directely into the foam. Or I could go about it in much the same way that I had done my rock faces on my Autumn foothills table.

I'll also need to hit up the hobby shop in search of some plastic tubing and possibly get my hands on some plasticard sheets as well.

The following are my inspiration for this project:

Click me to see where the basic shape of this project came from.
Click me to see some detailing that will be incorporated.
Click me to be inspired to do something ridiculously large.
Click me to see roof detailing that will be incorporated.

I'm really excited to be doing something like this. While the playability may suffer for the piece being a complete structure, I'm really not interested in ruining detail for the sake of playability for this one. It's all about the detail and composition.

I'd love to hear peoples thoughts.

I'm tingling from anticipation! I'd like to make a suggestion for this. Even if you make it as creepy as the pics, I'd like to see you attempt to make some Ivy crawling its way up the side of the building that would be really cool! Good luck and good sculpting!

Ok, so I screwed the rock sides up a bit by trying to go with the spackle sculpted sides. I got into it and hated what was happening and ripped that crap off. In the process I really dinged up the sides of the foam.

The whole ordeal inspired me to go pick up a new tool. It's a wand like styrofoam cutter called The Styrocutter Plus. It's a really really neat little tool that makes foam shaping a snap. I've only had the thing for a few minutes and I'm already in love with the results you can get out of it. The end is a bit thick though and I think that's my only complaint with it. It won't replace your wire foam cutter for accuracy, but for shaping and detailing, it's hard to beat.

More as I get used to using it and as I make more progress with my project ^_^!

I am just using the method I've used before with my stone walls, cutting into the foam with a hobby knife at angles to get a stacked stones look. Only this is way more detailed than that ^_-.

Anyways, here's where we're at right now

I just discoverd that styro cutter as well. Makes cutting out basic shapes and large shapes the regualr wire cutter just couldnt reach very easy.

This is an ambitious project, but judging by your works so far i think we will all be eager to see the results!

Meph

Your more ADD then me.

There great like them though.

Another skaven done. I'm thinking the sorcerer is next up. C&C welcome and appreciated as always.

So far all your work is amazing I would like to see more non GW stuff though

Very very nice

Black is not so easy to pull off, Cloak looks great

HFN

hey grey_death; on this mini of yours:



is the right (gun) arm plastic? If so what kit does it come in? I have been trying to track it down for a few days without success now.

Thanks

Hey lego,

The arm is actually the Emp Champs arm with the black sword. I cut the hand at the wrist and replaced it with a plastic hand to grip the bolt pistol.

The left arm is much the same, chopped at the wrist with plastic bits replacing metal.

The head, once again, chopped off and replaced with plastic.

That mini with bolt pistol and sword is beautiful. Is it a power sword? How did you do it?!? If you could describe your method itd be much appreciated. Id love to give it a try on the termies Im working on.

I used a technique called glazing. Basically you take very watered down paint and get just enough in your brush so that it leaves an extremely thin coat of paint on the surface of the mini. This is done by dipping your brush into the watered down paint and using a paper towel to help soak up all of the excess. This keeps it from becoming a wash and gives you control over where your 'glaze' goes.

I worked my way up from a black undercoat/basecoat for the sword using scab red glazes (lots and lots and lots of layers of glaze). The glazes give you a smoother transition than you would get by simply layer painting. With each glaze you want to start slightly further up the sword so the last layer is slightly exposed. Do this until you get a fully scab red tip for your sword.

Next up I used blood red in much the same manner, only more directed to the edges of the sword, as well as the 'hatch' marks along the blade. Again, work your way slowly up to solid blood red.

I then mixed blood red with fiery orange about 50/50 and picked out some edges with a slightly less watered down paint.

Finally I used fiery orange at the very tip and some of the edges to really bring it to life.

Hope that helps x.x...

I picked up one of the wash colors from GeeDub this week. I just really wanted to give it an initial test and see what I could come up with for a quick effect with it. So I snagged a model and went to it.


note: the colors are a bit off, I'm still getting used to my new photo set up.
This was a heavy sepia wash, cleaned up with a highlight of bleached bone and final highlight along the edges of skull white.

Have to say, very impressed with what I've been able to do with it so far. More tests in the future of course. But Bone colored armor is a cinch with this stuff.

A little more work done on my building project ^_^. I know it's coming along really really really slow. It's just hard to find time for all of the stuff I want to do!