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Done some work on my third DP - DEATH!



Made up of parts from the older metal DP (yes, it was an absolute bitch to cut up - not helped that the prior owner had stuck it together with a glue gun ) and some super huge wings.

The legs are set in the crucification position, the arms will be held across the chest and the head will be bowed (I am thinking of using the skull mask from the defiler for the face - it fits nicely in terms of size and look). The back and neck are going to be built up to simulate terminator armour and the existing collar will be extended to match this (to make it almost look as if the face is covered with a hood).

C&C welcome.

Ok - update of Death!

filled out the joints in the legs, added some hip armour, and bulked out the torso section.



Kind of messed up the hands, so will need to re-sculpt them (whoops! ). Also need to finish off the collar and back pack.


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Redid the arms on Death as I couldn't get it to look good. Added a punching sword to the left arm, and the right is carrying The Banner of Death. Also added him to his base. Just need to add some extra gubbins to him and finish the backpack and a bit of GS on the wing joins.

C&C welcome.

It looks great! You are really coming along with your sculpting!

Mike

Cheers Mike

Had to reposition the left arm as it looked a bit off where it was. Also removed the punching sword as it looked a bit silly

Added some extra armour to the crotch (as Death obviously has a MAN SIZED package that needs protecting) and a storage pack and strap to his abdomen.

I was thinking of adding some life timers to a belt or something, which could be cool, but annoying to make...

Hope to see him in person some time - looking very impressive.

Thanks Arakasi - just got to finish Death, then I have 3 more HQ choices to make - Pestilence, Mortarion, and Typhus. Then I will have the full set of evil excellence

I have an LOTR Balrog which will become Mortarion, a new plastic DP which will be Pestilence, and I need to source a Typhus stand in

Blurry as hell, but just thought I would keep this thread current with my "progress". Painting has started on Death:




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I've just created an article to put all my Black Hand fluff and completed pictures in one place.

C&C welcome as it is my first article

Decided I should really get my butt in gear and do some painting. I hope to have all this painted by 31st of October (yes, this year ).

Silver's list 'o shame
Eldar Guardian squad 1 (10)
Eldar Guardian squad 2 (10)
Eldar Guardian squad 3 (10)
Eldar Guardian squad 4 (10)
Eldar Guardian squad 5 (10)
Eldar Guardian squad 6 (10)
Gun crew 1 (3)
Gun crew 2 (3)
Gun crew 3 (3)
Farseer 1
Farseer 2
Warlocks (10)
Harlequins (10)
Warp Spiders (10)
Wave Serpent 1
Wave Serpent 2
Falcon 1
Falcon 2
Falcon 2
Fire Prism


Guardian Squads 1-3:


Guardian squads 4-6 and farseers and warlocks:


Harlequins and warp spiders:


Various hover tanks:

Lots of eldar , so little time! You are going to have your hands full but a fully painted army is so worth it. Good luck Silver, I will be watching in awe.

Mike

Indeed - and damn work for getting in the way of painting!

Luckily I had already airbrushed all the foot soldiers their base orange a while back, so one less job to do

Remembering at all times that I suck at painting and have about as much brush control as a chimp (and also only have quite large brushes for doing work this small ):







So, not the best in the world, but with a black wash around it to give it some definition it looks better.

Color is done as followed: Sunshine yellow all over, then solar orange on the bottom half, then golden yellow wash across the middle, then a "dot" of white in the bright yellow. I think it looks OK, but if people have better suggestions for breaking up the colourscheme a bit (I was thinking perhaps of purple gems?). They do look slightly different and better at tabletop range compared to just the plain yellow gems.

The model on the right is the orange that I am using for the body of the rest of the eldar as it is brighter, so the gems look a bit different against that setting. Also thinking of going back and repainting the black as dark grey.

Was also thinking of using a yellow and dark orange/brown/red pencil to do some edge highlighting on the armour plates.

Really would like suggestions on how to break up the colours and paint the gems.

Ok, thought I would just post up some of the stuff I had been working on:

ROCK SPIRES!


Paint is still wet that is how up to the minute my PLog is (I wish )

And some more spires that still need sanding and painting:





And as an added bonus, some pictures of my newly cleared up room:

The tower o' power - including a large number of boxes for warhammer quest, (old) space hulk, Necromunda and various 40 starter sets filled with terrain bits off the picture at the bottom, and some HomeMade (TM) army trays.


Work desk


Draws o' doom - containing paints, my bits collection(s), dice, templates, terrain making stuff (static grass, flock, etc), some smaller terrain pieces, and other associated painting and modeling supples.

Just thought I would add in some progress on my rock spires, which are now done

rocks rule

@Joske - Thanks for that, got me all excited, hoping to see some Eldar, lol.

@Silver - I'll wish you a Happy new year seen as how I'm here now. Looking forward to your Eldar progress in 2012.

Hi guys

Long time no update (yeah, I know, no change there! ). This year I will be selling most of my warhammer stuff, including my Eldar (except for a few units that I like the look of ), in order to focus on my TS marines and finishing off the last few bits of my CSM army.

Once my CSM are done I will be starting on some Infinity (my current planned 300pt army has 9 models, so I might actually get them all painted ).

Also have a few 54mm and general "misc" models that I purchased over last year because they looked cool that I plan to paint up

That is not the kind of progress I was hoping for Silver, but needs must I suppose . I'll look forward to your progress on other projects then I suppose. When you place the stuff for sale could you drop me a PM, I'd be interested in the Wave serpents and warp spiders.

Cheers and all the best for the future projects too.

Sure, will do. They will probably be going up on ebay in the next few weeks.

I was going to enter her as half of a diorama for the Dakka painting contest but forgot to take a WIP and she is not actually that well painted (especially since she is 54mm... yeah, I suck at painting ) and I LOST PART OF HER DAMN HAIR - was picking it up as the rest of the model was done and managed to fire it off behind the shelves somewhere. Though having said that she does look a LOT better in person...






The angle and the lighting have conspired against her face - as you can see from the other angles, the contrast between shadows and highlights is actually much more graduated

That is a wicked neat miniature man!

And I'm loving the rocks!

She looks great dude! Give yourself a little more credit.

Also the rocks rock!

Thanks for the comments guys

Decided that my knight needed a suitably awesome base (to take away attention from her poor paint job perhaps? ). Early phase WIP at the moment; will eventually be a kind of weeping willow with pink cherry tree style blossoms and a light white/cream bark set in a rocky meadow:






And my Reaper Christmas order free mini, Bourbon Street Sophie. Painted entirely (other than the brass buttons) with washes over a white base coat - still WIP. I tried painting street names on the sign but gaked it up, hence the damage to the sign where I wiped it off and took it back to the primer

Lots of cool stuff Silver , love those rock spires and that daemon prince dude.

Love the final mini there, and great variety of stuff in this thread!

Thanks guys

There will still be plenty of random models and terrain going on in here (hopefully ). Got a couple more reaper minis (including another 54mm) and some Hasslefree models on my to do list - they will be started after I have finished the tree base and Sophie.

Decided that I am going to work on 1 or 2 single model projects at once while doing my Warp Dragon marines to stop the model spread that seems to occur

great... now i have to yet again follow another good thread... man i need some paid readers to keep me on the updates it seems...^^

never was that much interested in nurgle stuff...but yours is drawing my attention pretty strong here... and that trench table...simply awsome looking...

also i am here because of the variety of all the portryed models you have worked with... seems you have your fingers in all major armies...^^


will be following this closley^^


cheers, vik

Sorry Viktor

Anyway, I was looking around at pictures of urban ruins to give me inspiration for the bases/colour schemes of an Infinity Nomad army that I ordered (goodbye GW, hello CB ) and found this awesome site (seriously go check it out, some amazing photos of some excellent ruined/abandoned buildings in Japan) (explanation of how to navigate in Japanese can be found here).

I was immediately inspired to go and make some urban ruins that would fit my GW models and the mechanics of Infinity (where each model gets a reactive action, so if it can see a model of the enemy at any point along its movement path, it can shoot at it), and came up with this; an industrial factory/warehouse:



A three piece building, with high up windows (good for infinity - some models can climb which means they can shoot out of them), a closed and open roof, a complete and ruined wall, and can be set up to either provide a smallish (it is about 11" by 7" in the picture above) building, or expanded out, or used as free floating terrain.

More pictures:



Bonus points to anyone who can tell what I made the walls out of



Yep, that's right - I made my own I beams





I've used up about 5 tubes of superglue on this bad boy so far (50p's worth of glue from Poundland - bargain!).

very good and interesting looking terrain...and yep, your stuff is worth the extra read

what a cool idea to make the factory ruin in thre different pieces...reminds me of a playmobil castle my kids have to play with...

and yep... i instantly recognized the cardboards origin... but i wont tell...only hint here... reading can help you^^... is that you getting even with GW and now switching over to infinity? LOL

Haha, glad you think so

I cleared up some of my bits boxes and sold a whole bunch of GW stuff so had some of my GW boxes free - some of them were turned into shipping boxes, but I still had the AOBR lid sitting around taking up room... now it is actually a room!

And a super special bonus - a second update in a single day!!!1111onepisquared

Anyway, added some sand to the bases to simulate smaller grit and debris (not sure if you can really see it in these pictures as it is the same colour as the cardboard floor ):





And a new building - The Stairway (tm + patent pending):



Going to make up a nice big sign for the side to make it less boring. Also note door handle!



Dual landings with connecting stairs, and first floor window. Ruined roof to allow access for hands and/or models and also because I think it looks cool



The two half sections in place with the stairway to give some scale. The top landing is about 5 inches from the surface, with the first landing being at 2.5. Thinking of trimming the bases on the "shed" sections so it can all fit flush together without the big gaps in the walls. Still got some work to do on the interior of the stairwell to pretty it up, but I am running out of glue (used about 9 tubes so far - enough to glue together several armies. Good job it is only £1 for 10 tubes )





The whole shebang.

stairway looks great... tho a better pic...particularly of the stairs would be nice...

ruleswise, can these only be taken one flight in whole? they are not wide enough for a model to stand on?

and yep... i would probably cut the bases so that each piece fits flush together!

how do you intend to paint all this? airbrush or classic brush by hand?...that could take ages... and will you seal the cardboard with something? a coat of PVA? and why do you use superglue for that kind of material? i know quickness is probably the cause here... but for sturdiness i would recommend PVA...or for that matter something called liquid nail...as this toughens up the structures a treat!...

oh and i saw the debris/sand structures and also the door handle... details make the piece pop as usual^^

by the way... speaking of handles? what about some stairrails? even broken ones would look cool and give that finished look...even for a ruin...

just some thoughts on the top of my head...

cheers, vik