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He's looking wonderfully pompous ^_^.

Now...paiinnntt hiiimmmm.......

Brilliant additions. Now paint paint paint. It's been months since we saw something finished and we want MORE!

That is just amazing work your doing the Dante, but like Mig said..... WE WANT PAINT!

Nice work so far Dante... I'm absolutely loving the Rogue Trader, though worryingly he is starting to remind me of a guy I work with! Have you decided on a paint scheme yet? I'm interested to see how you "envision" his style of dress. Rogue Traders always come across as a little "eccentric" whenever they get a mention in the fluff... It would be great if you could somehow make his dress seem flamboyant and outlandish yet still tie him in with the darker aspect of 40K.

@Dante (or others) - I know this is a bit of an off topic, but I am curious about =I= munda, and I am curious what sort of rulesets people are using, such as is it just Necromunda with new "characters" or ??? Again, sorry for being off topic but I am really liking the what everyone, including Dante, has been doing in the =I= munda space and I am interested in learning more.

Personally, I'm not using any rules. I don't game, just paint and model. Migs is the man to talk to about rules, being founder and all.

For paint, I'm keeping it under wraps at the moment, you'll just have to wait and see .

Cheers,

Dante

Gaarghhh. I come back after a bit of not coming online, and you now say that you're keeping painting a surprise? Is this some kind of sick joke -- are you finding this amusing?

Really, nice touching up work on the Rogue Trader. I personally want moar of the Naval Man myself (could be misconstrued), but this is all great stuff.

sA

AbsoluteBlue wrote:@Dante (or others) - I know this is a bit of an off topic, but I am curious about =I= munda, and I am curious what sort of rulesets people are using, such as is it just Necromunda with new "characters" or ??? Again, sorry for being off topic but I am really liking the what everyone, including Dante, has been doing in the =I= munda space and I am interested in learning more.

There is an =][= rules discussion going on in the Skirmish Games section here on this forum.

To get back on track...

Started painting at the weekend, first time in about 4 months so things didn't go too great. I ended up redoing most of what I did on Saturday tonight.



Went back and redid much of the face tonight and am a lot happier now though it could maybe use another final highlight or two.

Cheers,

Dante

The skin is looking great so far, I like the greyish shade the skin tone has. Makes him even more gothic..
What might look cool on him is some stubble on the beard area, like he forgot to trim his beard for some days..

I'm truly looking forward to see this masterpiece finished, keep it coming!

is he supposed to look a bit fat?

I think the face colour is great and fitting! Is the beard going to be in that tone? If not Id love to se greyish or maby something crazy like blond... Again great job!

thats a fantastic conversion and very characterful painting.

Brilliant!

The eyes look awesome. Have you added a small white reflection to the eyes?

THat face...oh my god...that face alone is worth the Slayer Sword award on the Golden Demon!

Don't forget the smoke ring

Girr wrote:I think the face colour is great and fitting! Is the beard going to be in that tone? If not Id love to se greyish or maby something crazy like blond... Again great job!

His hair is going to be dirty blonde. Everything bar the face is still just basecoat.

@ tallmantim - Yep, I did, wasn't sure it would work out since they're so small but looks alright.

@sonofruss - lol, not sure how I'll do that one....


Cheers,

Dante

At least smoke chat up conan one of his dioramas has smoke coming out of the barrels of his bolter.
This one here. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/231902.page


edit to add link

Brilliant - you know the few suggestions I have in terms of pant/shirt color, but other than that want to take another opportunity to say the face is superb and so is the jacket and this model will rock so hard.

I like the skin, very much. Very realistic, what are the plans for the rest of the model? Or is it going to follow the basecoat?

sA

smiling Assassin wrote:I like the skin, very much. Very realistic, what are the plans for the rest of the model? Or is it going to follow the basecoat?

sA

Just going to have to wait and see mate .

@ Migs - The jacket is only basecoated and a few first, scrappy highlights added in areas for some ideas. Thanks for your advice and praise though, really appreciate the help.

Cheers,

Dante

These ooze character the armsman yells "not on my watch you punk" while the nonchalantly smoking Rogue Trader just looks contemptuous and aristocratic.

You've got the girl, the boss, the veteran may I make the humble suggestion of a rookie to go with the armsman?

Don't tell me to wait. I had to wait an hour for a Pizza at Pizza Express with three of my cousin's screaming brats. I guess I'll have to use your updates as ballast of inspiration to paint. Planning for any more equipment detail: an ornate las pistol?

I just noticed the centre parting on the Trader - woah. Is he in a Galactic boyband?

sA

If your a Rogue Trader, and your NOT in a Galactic Boyband, then you aren't working hard enough!

The inspiration was drawn from Jes' "The Gothic and The Eldritch" with most human characters having "severe" haircuts....

Cheers,

Dante

Quick update:



Just done a bit more on the jacket and the sash, not so sure how much I like it though. Going to take a short break from him to work on Blood Pact (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/220069.page) again for a bit though.

Cheers,

Dante

He looks great, wonderfully arrogant. Do I actually see an embroidered pattern on his shirt? Impressive.

Yep, I tried to do an embroidered effect on the red jacket after seeing JRN do it on one of his mini's. Obviously his looked A LOT better though.

This model actually drives me nuts. The brocade and button bit of the jacket was just not made to be painted, it is so fiddly and impossible to get how I want it, what you can see above is my best effort - which is pants!

I'm actually getting a bit skunered with the mini to be honest, hence the reason I returned to the BP.

Cheers,

Dante

While trawling through my bits boxes I came across the navy armsman I was working on a while ago. After looking at him for a bit, I decided I wanted to finish him off, but not as planed.



The idea is for him to be a storm trooper type fella standing on a battlefield after battles end, staring at the grave of a fallen comrade (gun in ground with helmet on top or something like that).

[Note - the conversion is far from finished, pics are purely to show the new direction]

More soon.

Cheers,

Dante

Wow, if that's in your bitz box, I'd like to have a look through myself, Dante!

Lol, if you weren't all the way over in MA then you'd be more than welcome to mate! He was there for storage in the "Imperial Guard" bits rack. I was putting a load of new stuff in and decided to have a root through my FW stuff for some inspiration.

Cheers,

Dante