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Holy crap dude, the tatoo lady is fantastic. Your skin blends have always been great but she is really excellent, pale skin is very hard to paint well yet alone with the lovely blue detailing.

Very interested in the centaur, are you going to stick with the greek armor theme? That could work out amazingly and would be very eyecatching.

Thank you madam! Her wall of flesh was pretty imposing but I am pretty happy with the result. Buying and painting all those nekkid demon chicks a year or so back really paid off (though not when it came to having usable torsos on hand...)
I need to touch up and smooth out the woad patterns though. Those pictures hurt my eyes to see how rough some are.

re: centaurs, definitely going Grecian with them. Not many will be armored at all, going for the WE codex list of naked horse archers and lightly armored cav, but about 10-15 will be armored and shielded with Micro Art torsos, helms and big Greek shields. The rest will be *ahem* skyclad and/or wearing light tunics or togas. Should be pretty fun to do though, since I have loved greek myths since I was a little crumb cruncher and some of the possibilities for vines and other Dionysian basing and details will be fun.

Wehrkind does things!!

Not much functional to add beyond my enthusiasm, I'm afraid. Very cool thing you've got going with the cast muscly torsos + svelt WE horses, though to me the proportions seem kinda wonky - as in, total torso length after being wedded to the horse section. (This is probably due in part to centaurs not really being one of my things ...) The left 'taur (female? are those wee boobs?) looks closer to spot on than the right one, though I think the over-muscled, overly-long man torso is partly to blame for that.

I missed the Wulfria update, very nice stuff. Her abundance of fur makes me oddly happy, particularly around the cleavage area. Make of that what you will.

Also, I miss your coffee brittle, damn that stuff was awesome

- Salvage

You know... I think you are right, damnit. Muscle man does look oddly tall.It was looking pretty decent before, but I bet my eyes were lining up the top of his neck thinking that's where his head should be. Plus the armored chick torso ends below the navel, instead of a bit below the sack like his.

Good catch, I am going to have to take a second look at that tomorrow any maybe cut it down more. That's one thing I need to sort is where exactly the join is between the horse and the man. I was sort of aiming for his hips since it widens a little so the necking down from horse to man is less noticeable (a big issue on the more svelte gals) but I think I put him a bit higher up than needed. Hrm.

You might be in luck for coffee brittle! I have been baking up a storm the past few weeks, and I even got little rubber molds I am going to try making toffee sticks in. Considering my current pace, I will probably be toting 2 loaves of bread, 5 pounds of toffee and 37 cinnamon rolls to D-Con 2. That and about 40 more pounds around my waist :(

Woo hoo, got some painting done, largely due to Dakka-con 2 looming! 3 models to finish (Wulfria, Slaanshi Sorc and Warshrine).

So *drumroll* Slaaneshi Sorc is done!





Woo hoo! Went for a very different painting style on this one, more of a rough "painterly" style. Partially perhaps due to the model not really having a lot of crisp detail I went for almost an impressionist look with rougher brush strokes, all NMM and other sorts of fast and loose techniques I have seen people do but never really tried myself. It was actually sort of fun to not worry about blending too smoothly or having very clear highlights, and the almost carefree joy really drove me to get this done, despite being the first bit of real painting I have done for a while. (Of course, the fact I am almost angry at the model itself didn't hurt. I hardly cared how it worked out due to not having a particularly focused plan.)

I imagine while reading that paragraph a lot of you are thinking "I am glad you enjoyed painting it, because I am not enjoying looking at that piece of crap!" I don't think the pictures really do her justice... like most impressionist paintings it looks a bit better from 2-3 feet away... Those of you attending D-con2 will get to actually enjoy looking at her

It dont look too bad! While it seems a bit rough up close, i can certainly appreciate the flowing brushtrokes and the style on the robes. The NMM looks really great and fitsperfectly with the rest of the model!

Good job

Thanks man She actually looks really good in the thumbnail in the gallery

Unsurprising Fact: Salvage appreciates this sculpt more after that busom shot. Good rack goes a long way

Cool work on the cloth, sword and especially the burning book, that's some tight stuff. You are gonna clean up the base sides, right?

Now say it with me Dakka: WARSHRINE! WARSHRINE!

- Salvage!

I started sculpting a pillow for it. :-P A dirty pillow.

Yea, I didn't notice the scrapes on the base side till I took the picture. Gonna throw some black on there to conceal.

Speaking of pictures, next week instead of studying I am going to set up the photo-booth and take some proper shots of the army. Trying to post in the Rackham retrospective thread I found I have a whole lot of bad pictures of the army, but I suppose due to the Dakkacon rush never really took a lot of completed pics. Sorry about that.

Alright, by popular demand (read: Salvage) I sat down today and just finished gluing together the damned cart for the warshrine. So gaze upon it, and bear witness it's wonder and shoddiness. (And feel free to point out anything it is missing or I didn't correct... there's some general clean up of rough spots and glue threads, but otherwise it is pretty done and getting primed this weekend.)




And all together (sans the chains from Mongo to the cart; those are getting added after everything else is painted and glued down.)



Let me know what you think! And quickly, since at the rate I am studying, this will be painted and sealed by Monday morning.

Looks cool! But i cant help but feel that with one pair of wheels it would keep falling forwards onto the abhuman, pulling the slaves into the air!

Syill, i like it very much, good effort!

Hehe yea, the poor slaves are both counterweight and support when the lasses lean back. Not terribly sensible, but really I found there isn't a lot of room to work with on a chariot base. If I wasn't going to have the cart bumping up against the horn drums on fatty I needed to really cut down on the size. I thought about adding another set of wheels to make the cart shaped more like a small siege tower (thinner at the top with a wider bottom) but I was getting short on space and it sort of seemed... I dunno, dull? I just couldn't envision a build like that that I found interesting... just too static or something. I will probably try a different cart strat if/when I make a second shrine, probably with a more standard horse and cart look, and so with a bar between the horses to keep it up.

*L* it is pretty funny to imagine this going down a hill, building up speed, then coming to a sudden stop, launching the chicks into the air as the slaves whip up over the top of the cart! Good thing it only has a Mv of 4!

It looks fine, was just an amusing scenario i couldnt help but envisage!

Oh, I am with you Even my wife commented "That's gotta be the slowest way to get around the battlefield. 'Wait, guys, come back! I want to kill people too!'"

My thought when you posted this up was that the cart looks awfully tall, but that I figured you went with that height because it worked as well as possible with the flaggies behind and the fatty in front. Dropping its suspension would probably play havoc with the delicate balance of things chained to it, and since those chicks already add SO much height to it, what's a little more?

Speaking of the girls, did you add little metal pasties over their nips? Or do they really come with those on there, but nothing over their nethers?

Oh, constructive critique: is the idea with the base that those are wheel ruts? If so, why do they extend past where the wheels are? Does it roll back in between fatty's tugs? Speaking of fatty, if a cart with two chicks on it (ok, two gigantic chicks with a huge flag) is leaving ruts, why isn't fatty, who's crawling around on fists and knees, leaving a trail as well? You said something about the base not getting done until everybody else, wonder if these details are part of the plan.

- Salvage

Yes, precisely. I am going to actually do the base seriously after everyone else is done. The current ruts were just sort of a proof of concept when I was messing around with the base at first. Originally I was expecting the cart to fit a little farther forward, but it turns out fatty takes up more space than I expected.

So after I get the rest painted up, or maybe even now that I have everything glued together pretty well, I am going to actually do the base to get things to line up. Ruts in the proper place and length, smears in the mud/snow where fatty was crawling, and a few little bumps/rocks to keep the flagellants in contact with the ground. There were so many moving parts with the cart and flagellants that I wasn't comfortable setting up the base before I know exactly how they were going to fit. Which is also why the cart is as high as it is; I wanted the flagellants to be partially supporting it from the back sort of like a litter. I had actually thought of making the entire thing a war litter of sorts, but lack of slaves and desire to use fatty sort of nixed that. Plus it was kind of silly.

And yea, the chicks come stock with metal pasties/nipple ring plates, but nothing over the quim. Go figure.

Ok! Something of an update!

Things have been a bit slow lately, but I have gotten a good bit of work done on the Slaaneshi giantess. While I was at it, I have been knocking around partially done centaurs, and am going to post them here too. SO! Huge clawed thing!




Sorchimera and 28mm hoplite for size comparison. She's big. Really big. She is also only about 1/3 painted. I got the skin tones looking right, and am currently working on the claws/horns which are giving me a little trouble, then comes the brass armor and bangles, leather highlights and the plethora of woad. Whee! I am looking forward to the woad (the brass not so much) as I have been doing a LOT of doodling in my note books during class coming up with various patterns and symbols.

Also, while at my weekend home in the country (and thus divorced from my paints) I have been cobbling together centaurs using a combination of WE Glade Rider horses, Immortal Miniatures ancient greek hoplites, Micro Arts Studios Amazons heads and torsos and some recast Rackham Lanyfs and Celts. And lots of GS. The scales are slightly wonky together, which is making things a little harder than they need to be, but on the other hand I have this mental story of centaurs (like most magical beings) being nearly immortal and continuously growing. As a result the older, more wild and savage centaurs are bigger and burlier, but tend to disdain more "modern" equipment like human armor and shields, while the younger and smaller members of the herds trade their services for equipment and vast quantities of wine, and sport more human gear. So any road, here's the start!



Crit and comments welcome as always!

This thread is awesome!!!!

Sweet looking centaurs!

Looking great, I love Sersi's stuff, the face does look a little weird though.

Vitruvian: Yea the face is a tad... I don't know the word for it. The half assed painting I did on it isn't helping certainly; I pretty much just got some moderate highlighting done to prep-for the woadageddon that is happening all over that HUGE flat flesh area. Should be fun!

Ralin and Kenshin: Glad you boys like it! They will be on display/getting kicked in the teeth at Dakka Con in July if you lads make it out!

Ok, small update. I recently decided to run a Level2 fire sorc in my list at 2200 points (I keep seeming to get out horded, and fire cage and a few other tricks are just fun). So, obviously I had to make up a whole new model, instead of using my existing level 2 sorc model, or the Exalted with sword and shield who is getting pulled in his favor (despite the level two having a shield.)

Anyway, here's the paint progress. Mostly the base, some cloak and leather work to do, along with messing with the source lighting (I think it might be too yellow now) and maybe some fancy stuff on the red robe. Enjoy!




Oh, and I need to do the eyes. And the second sword. And those black stripes and bits on the robe. Oh, and fix the smoke (looks too much like the armor now... maybe some stippling of lighter greys.)

So yea, another few days of work probably...

Really like those marauder cavalry, the horses are incredibly 'artistic' almost like that famous painting by Delacroix or that famous one with a lion attacking a horse (Googled it 'george stubbs' 'lion attacking a horse').

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Arab_horses_fighting_in_a_stable_950px.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Lion_Attacking_a_Horse_by_George_Stubbs_1770.jpeg

EDIT: Forgot to say your painting and theme is top notch!


These ones^

Thanks man, I appreciate it! I was studying various horse paintings and pictures while I painted them (monopolized the TV putting images from the computer up on it) and it did really help. Never saw that one with the lion attacking the horse though; definitely saving that one for future reference! The models really helped too; those Rackham horses just have great presence and musculature. I was a little unsure about using them as Chaos Knights due to the lack of armor, but the models are just so big and imposing not a single person has thought they were anything else when I take them out of the box!

Fire wizard wins out of your update spam, great work already, particularly because I feel he matches the army a bit more strongly than Ms. Bowl O'Guts (it's the woad + armor + orange beard). Centaur kit-bashfest is coming along nicely, and count me thrilled to see paint on the giantess. Pity about her face indeed, probably the reason that I don't own the crouching one already

Def excited for Dcon, looks like three other dudes from my club are coming down to rock face. Also somewhat excited to paint again, have 13 nurglings + 1 grey seer (...) to go, then rebasing the entire army and seeing if I can get 200 points of Infinity at least built if not primed

- Salvage

Ohkay, back from the weekend and had a nice few hours of painting. In other news, the sorc is done but I didn't take a pic of him (later, for scale with the giantess I guess).

SO! Semi-NSFW giantess!





Sorry for the iffy lighting. I couldn't actually get a decent pic of her eye balls, which I was pretty happy with when I did them. I feel I am struggling a little with the black leather, and I am thinking I will need to darken the woad and maybe even the skin a little as right now she just looks really bright. I guess she is a (scale) 30 foot pale naked woman thing, but still. The claws I am still a little iffy on too; I would really appreciate comments about those.

Plus side, the hair looks awesome I think. Very happy there. Also, working on a little fluff for her, so I will bore you with text later.

Enjoy!

Whoa. Impressive woad design and execution, clearly lots of work (and class distraction) went into that, and the result shows it. You've also somehow dealt with Sersi's face issues, which for me are primarily in the bulbous cheeks, through clever woading, so a big there especially. The claws I at first thought were a bit off - the blending or whatever seemed a little messy in the first pic - but increasingly I have no issue with them. The leather too I think is fine, it's not hugely glossy as is but leather != latex anyway.

The gold might be the thing that I'm not 100% on yet, but that may be a combination of it not being done, or washed out in photography, or just my aversion to gold. (Also, her butt crack is bugging me too, looks too pink and/or unpainted at the moment, though I'm sure you've labored over how to tackle it )

You totally did rock the hair, well done.

Somewhat random aside: Sersi did do a solid job on her rack, and your woad accents the gals nicely. All the same, I have to grin thinking about how big her nipples are in 28mm scale - heroic indeed!

- Salvage

With the skin it's just hard to really add much because of how blown out it feels from the lighting right now. I dig it so far though.

With the leather, I've been going with a brown highlighting scheme for my chaos that seems to come out nicely. It has a nicer feel than going with greys and really drives the idea home that it's an actual leather. So maybe think of going in that direction unless you've gone with the greys for the rest of the force. I use small lines of bestial brown highlighted with snakebite leather.

Also, pissed that I haven't been subbed to this already! Lots of stuff I haven't seen yet

Thanks for the advice guys! Looking at it with fresh(ish) eyes today, I am kicking myself for a few things.

1: This would have been a REALLY good time for some larger scale celtic knot practice instead of the usual random swirls and dots I do because most models are too small to reasonably do more complicated patterns. Opportunity: missed :(

2: Highlighting the leather with dark grey/browns is a great idea GD, and one I should have thought of. Hell, I own more than enough black leather to know the surface breaks up a bit and shows some brown, especially as it wears. The rest of the army uses a dark brown leather, so it should be perfect if it is black stained but not superbly, given the low tech level. Thanks for reminding me my good paint scholar!

3: The woad on her face, though an improvement (old Pictish joke there, no doubt!) was not as well planned as it should have been. I didn't put up a pic of it, but I had done some neat designs I kind of wanted to start building into the females in the force, and her face would have been a good spot for another one.

As to what's getting worked on now (or this week):

1: Claws need to be blended more. Things are going to have a quarter inch of paint on them by the time I am done no doubt, all in whisper thin layers. I need my proper thinning mediums though, and they are all back at the house.

2: Brass armor plates. I am still bad at this, so it takes a LOT of layers to get it right. Lots more tutorial reading in my future.

3: Woad: going to put some washes etc. to even the layers (even with 3 of them some still jar me) and darken them a bit to make her look a little more solid.

4: Crack spackle. I admittedly shaded that a little, stared at it long enough to realize there should be a chocolate starfish and possibly some lady bits visible there, shuddered a little, and moved on. I really don't know how to approach that with anything even NEAR taste. Unfortunately the bit of extra cloth that is supposed to cover it only has folds on one side (the bottom side) and on top of that only attaches along a very narrow portion, making it poor to look at and unlikely to hold, so after it broke off the first time I eschewed it. It didn't provide much modesty, but it would have prevented me from having to wonder what manner of bikini services she would acquire...


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Ok, snapped a few pictures for reference:

The pattern I was talking about incorporating more of:


Nip to head ratio (isn't cute how they cuddle like that?):


Finished fire sorc and Wulfria next to each other. Might put a little more snow etc. on the bases, come to think on it.:

Wow...

I'm really liking what you've done with the Daemon Princess, that tattoo idea is so stolen. I love the red hair as well.