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Just a quick one today as I'm expecting a friend any minute. This model is now done for the most part, though I may still do touch ups here or there. Really interested in your opinions for her though:
Do the proportions work now?
Are the colours ok?
Did the jersey turn out alright?
I tried some new stuff with her face / hair - does it show? (please say yes!)





As always, any comments are much appreciated - it's how I learn!
Scarp

Those eyes are really weird...
To me anyway

Your color scheme is different from what ive seen before and looks great! I really like the paint job on your sentinel....its got a really nice look to it...dont knwo what it is, but I love it!

Hi scarper, glad you finished the model, the hair looks good as does the scenery snd helmet, i like your idea of the pose " hiding behind a wall wating to snipe! , but i don't really like your colour scheme, too much brown, or maybe brown and pink not very complimentry. i like what you did with the eyes looking to the window, and her jumper looks fine, but the colours all seem to blend together ,face pants , belt , hair and wall, Although i can see this is a good idea for camo sake! and that does make the eyes pop more!

Looks good Scarper. Not completely sold on the colour of the jersey, but that's probably just because I was imagining some sort of army/navy wooly-pully. Like the hair and face, good job mate

Looking good

Looks good, problem I have is it doesnt look a natural lean into the wall-


She seems to be resting on her hair which looks a bit odd, the back should be more flat to the wall and her hair pushed more to the side. The angle she is at she would have alot of weight taken by her back as she is arched over into the wall.

Apart from the I like the colour scheme, and the eyes are good for me!

Ganger girl looks awesome. Big up again!

She looks good! I really like the eyes, as if she was about to look around the window. I think the colors of the jersey are fine with the camo pants. Its a touch of color that shows she is still a female even as she put a bullet between your eyes. The only thing I can really see is that she should be sitting lower. So you cant see the top of her gun over the wall. We wouldnt want to give away her position. Maybe you could stand a bullet riddled sign post up on the back side to hide the top of her gun. Great job!

Awesomesauce. Must look great all together

I'm afraid I'm inclined to agree with Tortured Robot. Something about the way she's leaning against the wall section doesn't seem natural.

Perhaps a simple way to fix it would be to have a little more gravel built up around the heels of her boots. As her having her feet there while pushing herself against the wall would displace some gravel as her heels dug in.

Just a thought...

Great army


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One thing about the girl hiding behind the wall, is the fact that her elbow is clearly visable to someone on the other side. Apart from that, I like it.

Love that girls pose and basing, awesome as allways!

Alright guys, thanks so much for all the tips. I haven't had a chance to put any of em into practice yet, but I'll get right on it tonight or tomorrow

@purplefood - Thanks for the comment.

@element206 - Thanks a lot, that's really nice of you! The sentinel was kind of a bits box explosion - all kinds of bits I'd never really had any use for. I did have a bit of a plan for how it was all going to go together, but it went out the window as soon as I started building

@neil101 - Thanks for the kind words. I was a little worried about the pink, but I thought that as she's going to be part of my necromunda gang, rather than my army, I could be a little looser with the colours. Hopefully it'll come together as I produce more of them, but I can never really tell
I totally agree with you about the colours washing out a bit - I'll have to see if I can do something about that on the next ones. Maybe a different colour for the plasterboard!

@monkeytroll - Thanks a lot! I was a little skeptical too, but I'm trying to branch out in colours a little for this gang. Doesn't really show in the model I'm making today though...

@Rose_mountainz - Thank you!

@Tortured-robot - Thanks a lot for the constructive comments. I can't really do much about her hair, I'm afraid - it's pretty firmly moulded in metal! I am planning on filling out the ground under her a little more based on your comments and those of a few others, to let her take the weight more on her arse and less on her back I'll post the results once I'm finished with it.
I'm glad you like the paintjob, and I really appreciate the comment. (Your adventurers are still looking amazing, btw!)

@Scrazza - Thanks a lot, that's very kind!

@talons-58 - Thank you! That's pretty close to what I had in mind actually. She's a civvy soldier rather than a professional, and I wanted her to have a touch of life around her I'm planning on filling out the ground a little under her to give her a more natural pose, and I might well take your sign idea. Thanks!

@kenshin620 - Thank you! I threw in a shot of all the gangers I've painted so far in today's update just for you

@Nowlan - Thanks again for the honest advice. I really like your gravel idea, and I'll be sure to implement that when I sort out her basing tonight!

@WillFrost - Thanks a lot! And I'll be sure to sort that out - maybe some planks over part of the window or something.

@cadian512 - Cheers! Really appreciate the comment.

Ok! Today's update, a bit of backstory, and another ganger girl. I've refined the fluff for my gang a little - They now form "21 jackals", the 21st training unit utilised by the remnants. New recruits wishing to join the armed part of the Remnants team must first train with experienced soldiers, and they are dropped off in cities to scavenge and learn to survive on the field. Murdock (the shotgunner) and Crow (shown below) are ex-PDF currently training the guy wth the dog and Ferret, the lady at the window. The remaining heavy and juves, (Skragg, Riff Raff, Coop and Twitch) are wasteland scavengers who wish to be taken back to Pinepoint (my Remnant base), for reasons that I will be explaining in a proper fluff update later! The 21 Jackals cannot call in transport until they have found something of value (part of the training, and due to limited fuel supplies), so the newbies are fighting with them until they can be picked up! I'll be very impressed if anyone bothered to read that, and I'll probs put it in story form later on

This lady (currently going by 'Crow' - an injoke with a friend of mine) used to be part of the PDF. Her backstory will be coming soon, and obvs she still needs a base




and here's a shot of all the gangers so far done together!


As always, your opinions are highly valued, you're all wonderful people, and Dakka is the best. You know the drill!

I love the earthy colour you get into your models, they look great as a group.

That camo cloak has come out great.

So i read your fluff, ;-) and i like it , short and sweet and straight to the point , a quality i lack ;-) so i appraciate it in others! Pinepoint sounds wayyy to nice for a hive world though!!!jk I think you should post a postcard of your base so we can all get a looksee, i bet its not as pretty as it sounds.
I think my earlier statement about the pink might have being too hasty ,now i see more in a group shot, the pink is picked up with the spikey haired dude! like you new girl, and i really like the way you do eyes , any tips , i am trying to avoid doing mine , but feel like i should after seeing yours!

i really like the poses on the especially the sniper one hiding behind the broken wall

The one behind the wall looks like she just gave birth.

@Tortured-Robot - Thank you! i was in two mind about the cloak, so I'm glad you like how it ended up

@neil101 - Hehehe, that's just a blurb to explain the characters! I'll do some longwinded stuff to fill out the details later on. And Pinepoint is now used more ironically than anything - it was a wealthy, beautiful area before the civil war. It is... less so now. I'll see if I can find some photos of terrain I've made!
I like giving models eyes, even if it isn't really necessary at 28mm. I just feel like it adds loads of character! I'll put together an MS paint type tutorial on how I do them, though I'm sure there are loads of better ways out there

@Moonshine - thanks a lot, I'm glad you like em!

@terribletrygon - huh. Maybe I should have specified that constructive C and C is valued What do you mean?

My next painting plan is one of the juves, a scavenger who isn't really military at all. I want to give him a colour scheme that represents his civvy status, but I also want to keep him blended in with the others - I can't decide! I was hoping I could steal some Dakka wisdom on this: Any opinions on the (hastily painted!) lineup below?




Cheers guys, you're the best

Well, she is wearing a pregnancy dress and has her legs spread awkwardly. I think simply changing her legs and recolouring her jumper thing would help.

Pregnancy dress? lost.

Right, point taken The dress is pretty similar (I'm impressed you even found one with the same hair AND dress colour!), but I reckon once I'm done fixing up the ground underneath her the pose will look more natural. And loads of girls' tops look like that anyway

That aside, what do you guys reckon about the colour schemes for the new guy?

Go with V. If he is such a non military type the others wouldn't have bothered to give him a uniform, right?

When you said civilian i immediately thought light grey and dark grey, but since i would love to see more brighter colours in your blog, i think i have to aggree with V , and maybe you could pick up the yellow on small items of his outfight . btw that mini looks great can i ask where from? , also just reread your entire blog, It all makes more sense now ! although i read a while back , its good to refresh , on all the characterfull guys in your army!

My vote is for the camo pants. It is an easy way to keep him coherent with the gang and it's easy enough to get your hands on some camo pants. The hoodie color is less clear cut for me. I like a red hoodie, but I think the grey might make more sense.

Crow looks great, though the last layer of camo on the cloak sticks out a bit. I like how the dog handler is coming too. That base works great for the pose.

By the way, where did that new juve come from? I recognize the model, but I can't remember the maker.

I like 1 because it kind of reminds me of ghost from mw2.

Crow looking good there.
I'll throw my vote over at 2.

Thanks for all the tips and the input guys! Though it's worked out pretty evenly with the voting I've tried to take everything you've been saying into account, and I'm thinking of using this (beautifully MS-painted) scheme:



It's got flashes of the red to tie in with the others and provide some bright eye candy; has camo pants to suggest a little bit of surviveryness (totally a word); but I feel he still looks mostly civvy. What d'you reckon?

To the guys who asked, he's from the copplestone castings scavenger range, which I've absolutely fallen in love with. On a whim (and one I can't really afford, I bought all of these guys:



They're awesome models, and I can't wait to paint them!

@neil101 - You read the whole thing?! I can't be bothered with that and it's my own thread! Thanks a lot for looking through it, anyways - my fluff has evolved a bit over time, but I'm pretty happy with where it is right now

Finally, so this isn't an entirely pointless update, here's some (very early) WIP greens of a new scavenger / medic / heavy I'm working on at the mo

As always, all comments, good or bad (as long as theyre constructive and not about pregnancy dresses...) are much appreciated!


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(ooh, and I'm just waiting for the sand to set on Ferret's new base, so hopefully I can get you some pics of her improved pose once it's painted up!)

Do like! and those scavenger models are lovely