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Thanks fellas! Today i was able to get some work in,...however I really have mixed feelings about what's come of it. I can't tell if I HATE the gun or if I like it?? A big part of me wants to just do it over but it's also not too bad I dunno.....it's not the color is wanted it to be and some how that got away from me. What's keeping me in this race is that I'm so happy with the armor I have to keep going cuz everything else I'm super pleased with. WORST case I paint it black and give it a straight up GW edge highlight....or I leave it cause it looks cool...aghhhh I dunno!!
You tell me??! (You can really zoom in on these to see details)









If not black, and not this....what?

Bebop

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A darker green. Much darker. Start reverse highlighting the thing and take it close to black.

 
   
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Madison, WI

Yeah, the fact that it highlights to pastel is what's hitting me wrong. I like RH's idea.

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Ja, the problem that often arises with red and green schemes is that when they are both bright we get the familiar Christmas feeling.

The best way to get around this and still use red and green (as they do go together as complimentary colours) is to only do one bright and one darker.

Darkening the gun is clearly going to be easier than all the red (and it is a nice red).

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The reds on your nomads are hella dope. More please!
   
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Darker green would be my suggestion, or something completely different, maybe a camo pattern of something?

 
   
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 Dr H wrote:
Ja, the problem that often arises with red and green schemes is that when they are both bright we get the familiar Christmas feeling....

The dreaded Christmas conatation. I've run into this myself, silly as it may seem, I found myself hesitant to even give red eyes to a predominantly green mini. Your suggestion makes a lot of sense though.

And I agree, that is a very nice red bebop.

   
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Well that's a unanimous vote against the color I had. Whew. Thank you gentleman for your objective opinions. Honestly the more I looked at the aqua the more I liked it. Very Evangelion....but...alas...I couldn't upload something everyone disliked, and, dark green is not in the works for this army, and I didn't feel like painting the gun green, even though you all have great suggestion and eye for suggesting so, so thanks! I decided to paint it the way it's painted standard, which is black. This is a testament to painting thin, as I was able to completes solidly rebase coat it and still everything was a sharp as before. It was hard to do this, I was in that place of not disliking it and it was cleanly applied, alas, it was your unanimous dislike that helped see the light. Also, the back pack is coming along nicely, there are a couple little tiny things I need to fix and do the lower half, but again very pleased. Overall...I'm quite happy. Here's a bunch of pics. Again, sorry about the strange sizes I'm trying to get my camera working and I can't seem to get the dang gun AND the dude in focus at the same time at certain angles....((OH i almost forgot, the blue grey piece in the center of the gun is just a basecoat i havent decide exact;y what to do there so im holding off on it))






Maybe the next special weapon I will do in the more appropriate green. However, because I was correcting something that had to be right the second time, a third base coat would probably start mushing things up, I went with safe and not sorry. '

Cheers guys

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Red armor? check!

Grey under fibre bundle-muscles? check!

Gun from green to a dark gray/black? Check-check!

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Flicking(scrolling) back and forth b/t the green gun and the black one - the black works so much better. Totally changes the tone of the whole fig. With the green one I thought he had picked up some kid's supersoaker watergun! Now it really looks like a 'I'm gonna blow a hole straight through you' gun.
Lovely job on the whole fig overall. The red armour is sweet. I'm not a fan of Inf. stuff at all but you made that fella look cracking. really gorgeous work on the armour

   
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In reference to your focus issue, you may need to try a higher f-stop to slightly increase the focal length

He looks awesome by the way.

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Can't go wrong with classic black. It goes with everything. He looks great!

   
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You know bebop... I have a variety of figures in my gallery that no one really likes except me. They have low painting scores, they clearly don't grab the public's imagination... but I stuck with them anyway because dang-it I like them the way they are. If you genuinely believe that the aqua was the color that nailed it... you should keep it that way. "The mob" isn't always right.

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Too true, Gits'.

It's not that I didn't like the green, I was just making a suggestion of what might be done to make it better for you, as you seemed unhappy with it.

Still, the black does look nice.

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@ Shaslo: Yup hitting all the checkpoints for an appropriate anime inspired cyberpunk land mate

@Januine: Thanks man! Haha super soaker...totally...all it needed was some bright orange camo....and hmm now that I think about it...

@Tom: Thanks for tha camera advice, I have a canon elephant pretty basic entry level digi cam so I'm not sure I have that much control over it.:(

@ ckig: thanks very much dude!

@ GIts/Dr H: thanks for a good perspective, and you're totally right, but i DID ask for thoughts so I was prepared for, and appreciated an objective opinion. ANd in the end, it was the right decision But just in that moment where you gotta take the plunge and paint over something you don't hate lol....

Well, fellows, this dude is done. Finally, it was slow going at the end but I'm pleased at this point with the model. Quite so. I feel like I went for a bright reflective acrylic car paint kinda look and I think overall it conveys well, at least it's better than the last time and that in my book is a victory. Plus the next guys in this squad will be painted all different colors, in honor of bubblegum crisis. Cannot wait to the girl in pink reflective armor. Here's the final...(as usual clicking them, and zooming gves proper resolution)



And a fun shot of them in scene


Thoughts
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Let me know guys

And an extra huge pic for minus with an infinity style gradient.



Cheers!

Bebop

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I love it. You mentioned bubblegum crisis and my excitement level doubled

   
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I'm quite a specialist too for strange color schemes that not everybody likes.

But to be honest, in this case, the black gun works way better than the green one. I'm late, but I confirm that you made the good choice, following people's advice.


The group looks good together. I want to see more of them !
Oh, btw, your images are quite small in here, they're bigger in the gallery. Don't be shy, post BIG pictures. You don't have anything to hide, trust me. ^^

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Does something happen to the fidelity of an image when you upload it to dakka? Also minus I added a full size image but as you can see it doesn't change the appearance in the embed. So I dunno....I would like for it to show its correct resolution on the imbed. When I view the pic simply from my iPad in my photos it's incredibly sharp. But on dakka, It looks like mush every time I upload it and it's driving me nuts.....


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Dakka does seem to do something to the photos. Clear, sharp and fine on my ipad or laptop - not so much when i upload to dakka o.O
I've found resizing them to about 900 wide seems to help though

   
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I also noticed this issue, I now cut all my images down by 50% (even then they're pretty well huge) and it helps a bit. I noticed if you click zoom once, it cleans the image back up. Still bothers me though, because I assume most people just think my pic is blurry and don't bother zooming in. I also noticed this seems to be more of an issue when viewing on my iPhone or kindle.

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Beautiful work!

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Thanks guys! Appreciate the comments! Not much love for infinity in the world these days lol...I need to start painting space marines for realz....anywho, needed a break from painting red, so I started on this random box of morlocks for nomads. No idea their rules but they are all strange aliens and I'm enjoying painting women right now, so I started with the 1 of 2 girls in the set of 4. I'm not really super creative these days with infinity simply because well I've only painted less than 20 of them so far so I still don't see a lot of schemes in my head, starting to get some good ideas though anyways, here's some mild progress. THe skin is actually pretty much done, a few tiny details here and there, the orange is not even filly base coated yet so no worries there. THe cloak is going to be the most grueling part of the paint job, the rest is painting up quick. The pants are done, and so's the hair mainly except highlights hear and there...the Turqouise is meant to bleed into the forehead like that just FYI, it's the way it was painted on the box so i copied it :/....again some stuff to pick out and clean up, and black line....all in time...here's some pics






Thoughts lemme know?
Bebop

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love that hair - very nice touch

   
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Oh yeah, the Tohaa, fish people, like the ones in Mass Effect, but with males as well. I think you nailed it wither her "Hair" and skin tones.

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@ Jan: thanks man, cant really claim much credit for it though, its copied from the cover art...lol....but i agree its a cool look

@ Shaslo: Ahhh the tohaa....ive heard of em....lol...i should know these things LOL

ive made more progress....as i suspected the cloak would prove to be the biggest challenge...the front is mostly done but i need to work on the buckles and clean them up, the back is basecoated in white and orange and now i need to really focus on that side of him. Ive made some obvious progress here but theres still alot to be cleaned up and to be painted. The boots i still havent touched nor the hand holding the gun and the gun itself needs alot, the nmm on the cyber sword i sok. if i redid it i think itd go better. The angle is a bit strange so i approached it from the wrng angle. i gotta turn the mini as i do it o the paint doesnt resettle. for now im ok with it and i still have another chance of the back side. theres also a couple of Oopsies here and there that ill need to paint over, but i wont do that till the very end...heres some pics:







thoughts guys?
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Super cool figure, love the gradient on the scythe blade.

   
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Not really familiar with the figure or faction, but she looks great - skintone and hair (is it hair?) are suitably alien and very reminiscent of an alien from the Star Trek universe

   
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Looking nice there. Good job.

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Heya everybody thanks for the interest, glad she's on the right track. I'm sitting in bed with my gf and she's naggin me so this post is a fast one but wanted to shoot out this final pic of the finished morlock #1, I'm fairly happy with her, the boots were a pain but actually came out good all in all I'm pleased, and I'll probably add to this blog post in the morning but here's the pic before I get in trouble,...as usual it's a huge pic so clicking and zooming shows correct res...



Cheers guys

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very nicely done Bebop - she came out really well.

   
 
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