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2011/01/25 20:38:55
Subject: Imperial steam punk....what? this time e is really dead, bones?
i finally choose to postpone a further work on my airship to paint again some minis.
subject is a little cadian mini that will mark the backbone of my upcomming steampunkish Praetorian army with lots of multiculural influences of different armies from the widespread empire of queen victoria...
the army concept is a bit like the roman empire where celtic and nubian and roman warriors fought side by side... so there will be jungle fighters fighting alsongside mordians and praetorians and other exotic fighters in that big army...
as a starter i am working on a suitable paintscheme that will tie all further minis regardless of their origin...
firstly i want to show you the first batch of minis that i will work with ...
these will serve as stormtroopers...and lots of brass will be used here...
these will be my backbone troops, evertrusting and shooty as hell...or hell in form of a commissar will get them...
captain Reed of the Royal Queens Brigande reported lastly for duty in Her majesty´s army and will be a big leader here...
andto get a more steampunkish air about the army this little fella will provide so almost unconvertedly...^^
so now to the maineven, as i present the for now paintscheme...
i painted the shoulders and the helmet white, boots and belt in black and the uniform clothes will be red...
now the tricky part is for me to determine what color should i do the carpace in? white might be the default chioce here but i am rather open wide for suggstions here as i am not really sure about that...really please lend a hand here, it is much apreciated...
the weapon is a mixture of black and metalic and i am rather unsure of that too...
so plase leave a comment...
vik
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Yay new work! This looks interesting vik , the red is great is it red gore ? very neat work so far , and the white is crisp too !
I suggest codex grey or brass, maybe a nice snake bite leather , though simple white is always effective! looking forward to more !
2011/01/25 21:10:07
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
codex grey or brass or even snake bite leather .... never had i thought in that direction....well tahts the input i was searching for...cool i will do some on paper tries and will let you know...
the red is just blood red, some layers... and the white was rather done well for the grey primer underneath... really helps a lot...
I reckon codex grey would work well replacing the white.
So will you be getting the FW guy with cloak and power fist?
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/25 21:49:11
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
don´t tempt me man...we´re on a tight budget here^^
seems also i have to seriously invest in some paints now...
as i recall i dont have any codex grey and snakebite leather...
only bestial brown and that brownish lighter foundation, forgott the name... damn airship and modeling forgott so much about painting in the process...
I AM TEMPTING YOU!!! DO IT!!! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!!!
think how cool he'll be riding in the bridge of your airship...
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/25 22:05:44
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
If you want to make them look supplied cheaply by mass production and low visibility in spite of red cloth(Which can mess up the eye) Then codex gray, otherwise, for a more showy army, brass up that armor! Show pride in the colors!
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/01/25 23:39:30
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
my wife suggested maybe go with a more traditional look and get the trousers look more white/creamy...the brass for the carpace?...well i probably will do a test mini for that as i will be very interested how this might work out...
there will be only some camo...i dont know what and how for the snipers in the army...for the rest although i wont feel restricted to use only praetorian minis i will stick to a very old fashion british look...as much as possible with about a hundred catachans in the fold now^^
i think if at all possible it will be a stretcher between cheap massproduction and showy colors...so it will be kind a massproduced pride then^^ (in germany toilets are numbered PPlol...boltfire...)
I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
2011/01/26 09:40:47
Subject: Re:Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
well i have done some new testing on the poor cadian trooper...he will need a name too as one to be subject to such horrible colors should have mourning personality...go figure^^
well at first i made a decission and painted the carpace and the helmet in vermin fur ...for my part this doesn´t work one minute as the brown blends with the red so well you think you have all in all a muddy red over the whole mini... so i needed to fix that...
by the way i redid the trousers too from blood red to deneb stone in one go...unwashed for now...
then i wanted to give brass a go over the brown but had to find out that my brass color dried up totally in the time since its last use... and i made quite a mess on my workspace trying to recover it....talk about handywork talent or rather absent of said talent...
well then i went to plan B and added burnished gold for testing and i think that didn´t went to well on brown, as it didn´t create a very recognizable effect... but i didn´t let that stop me, now did it?
so i then added a small amount of my favorite wash, flesh wash to the helmet and carpace but i think to rather no avail...
see for yourself:
well just as i had touched up the last bit of the wash on the mini the dorr bell ang and i went for the door to receive these new fellas to serve for the ole queeny...:
well these inis will make do as a sentinel squad of now five minis. the red and metal one i had for quite a time now and wanted it to add as a dreadnought for my sons army but now it will be enlisted in the victorian army...as a sentinel... oh how the mighty have fallen...^^
some of the soon to be sentinels have either GW weaponry now or rather no at all, but i guess i will find suitable ones in my bitsbox...
any help from you regarding my paintscheme is as ususal greatly apreciated and needed^^
vik
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Nice work. The cream trousers seem to work with the red. Yeah, nothing is brassy,,,,like brass.
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/01/26 10:31:54
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
that stung man^^ i will see to it that i get around buying some brass reall soon...darn when paint dries...do you think a more metal/steel carpace would look good? i could do a test painting on that, heck i will do so aspa^^ talked me into it^^
Sorry Vik, that wasn't meant to sting, the look of the armor was looking rather like my rusty treads on the Akuyaku is all. But try a steel look as well, very European. ^^
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/01/26 13:00:59
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
i am by far struck only feel the guilt of having done a bad job, so no offence taken here^^
Automatically Appended Next Post: So i went on with the painting with "dun it duncan"...
now i went for a more darker scheme alltogether and made a few needed touchups of red with mecharite red instead of blood red...this gives the whole mini another mood altogether...
also i did the capace and helmet firstly black and then steely and then again went over the steely bits with flesh wash to create a somewhat brassy effect...
hope it shows now...
also i washed the trousers with ogryn fleshwash and the white face too... so the trousers then received a rather heavy drybrush of undiluted white and where washed alter with fogryn wash again...also i couldn´t help but did the base too as i saw i reached quite a good level with the mini real soon...well there will be some work still on the mini but in concerns for the overall paintscheme i think i was kind of satisfied for now...
do you mind? do you think its not suitable? then tell me^^ as i would gladly do another testing before i go into large massproduction^^
the base of course will get a bit of a wash too and thus a bit of grittier look then...
vik
ah almost forgott the pics....silly ole me^^
cheers mates
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I am both selfish and chaotic. I value self-gratification and control; I want to have things my way, preferably now. At best, I'm entertaining and surprising; at worst, I'm hedonistic and violent.
2011/01/26 14:01:39
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
well i got some of them from a former firiend of mine who bought them in their time of release... also i recently bought a truckload of paints from a local art shop off real cheap as they didn´t understood then what treasure the just wanted to get rid off...some people...*shakes head sadly...*
well the shoulderpads are off white with a bit of badabblack wash over them to make them look a bit tusseld/used...
ups just realised you eant the cuffs^^ silly me^^
they are intend to be bright white as they try to give the "i-starched-my-shirt-so-hard-its-now-got-a-cutting-edge" -style...
so they will stay that way... it was an attempt to givbe this mini a bit of a posh look....something not done lightly in a war-related eviroment^^...
I like that last mini. Very nice. BTW I will cyber-smack you if your commander hasn't got a moustache and/or a pipe. ^^
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/26 16:01:46
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
would a cigarrrrr do? i mean i will be doing usakar creed for a suitable comannder of the fleet so he comes with a built on cigar...enough? and comes time and money i will be getting that general drake from reaper
and he too has a cigar....never did work with Gs tho i dont know if i am capable to sculpt a pipe...^^
Viktor von Domm wrote:would a cigarrrrr do? i mean i will be doing usakar creed for a suitable comannder of the fleet so he comes with a built on cigar...enough? and comes time and money i will be getting that general drake from reaper
and he too has a cigar....never did work with Gs tho i dont know if i am capable to sculpt a pipe...^^
^him...with a pipe!
I am looking for either:
-a monocle
-a pipe
-a blunderbuss
-a moustache
if it doesn't have one of these I will cry.
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/26 16:40:52
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
ah now this is a bit of a cliche`for a fourteen something kid...a girly kid at that...
so soldier wipe of that grime in your face and get a pair...
hmmm actually the commissar drake as shown above could indeed be sculpted with a pipe...hmmmmm and i guess a mnocle on fatty creed is also not out of the question....well i also happen to have him and he comes with a monocle up front so i got one out of the first to do tasks^^
phew.....
Automatically Appended Next Post: how about if i sculpt him with an eye patch instead as an homage to the true nick fury of S.H.I.E.L.D?
would´t that be even cooler than having him a pipe?
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-I'm not girly! I prefer "having feminine qualities"^^
-I saw this somewhere...forgot what site describing creed- "and a collar so huge it blocks his peripheral vision" ^^
-eyepatch would be cool.
So how many commanders do you have? creed, the monocle guy, and the eyepatch guy?
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/26 20:24:33
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
commander reed, former praetorian footlogger now airship companyleader,
when done he will be the first true praetorian in this army...hopefully tehre will be more of them one day...
need to rob a bank probably...
good show, young chap.
BUT I DEMAND HE MUST WEAR A MONOCLE!!!
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/26 20:42:51
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
nah....he is more of the dashing type...but i promise there will be a guy with schnautzer, monocle and pipe and possible a wooden pegged leg...satisfied?
well maybe i will stuff the idea with the leg...^^
so will you comment on the paintjop ORRR WHAT???
vik
by the way your avatar pic is creepying the feth outa me...
anyway-
nice paintjob. Shrike is pleased and satisfied that you will have a monocle-wearing, pipe-wielding fellow. Good show. I say.
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/26 21:02:48
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
shrike's advice for the day- you can never have too many monocles.
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.
2011/01/26 21:44:10
Subject: Color scheme for my steampunkish/modern Praetorians...
ächem...if you got more than one monocle its called glasses...and i think it is reaching ridiculous amounts if you have more than two, cause last i checked most people have two eyes and not one that i know of has more than two...
well its my duty as mature grwon up to point that out in case the youth of today gets some funny ideas of life on plant earth...
read it wrong.
"Your army can never have too many monocles."
DS:90-S++G+++M++B++I+Plotr06#+D+++A++++/eWD251R+++T(Ot)DM+ JB: I like the concept of a free Shrike roaming through the treetops of the jungle. I'm not sure that I like the idea of a real Shrike sitting on my couch eating my Skittles. corpsesarefun: Thank god I missed be nice to shrike day. greenskin lynn: because of all the skittles and soda, you basically live off sugar water, like some sort of freakish human-hummingbird hybrid.