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Hey all these are some of the terminators for my Sanguine Templar's there arms are fully magnetized so that I can run SS/TH, LC's or PF's and SB's. I got a little too crisp with some of the highlights in some parts, but thats cool I am not going to stress over it.











Also, here is the idea I am thinking on for the paint scheme for my GK's, I wanted kind of a "antique" look. Once everything is dry I will start bringing the white back out, I was thinking for the "glowing effects, ie eyes, weapon, and cannon, to use green instead of blue? Still not sure.







Thanks for looking!

Ashton

Think green will do well.

I like it, very nice. Not so keen on the white knight myself, but bothing wrong with the painting itself.

Lord_Osma wrote:Think green will do well.

Green might work well, thanks for the tip.

The white on the GK is a little sloppy, I have since cleaned it up quite a bit, I had to use quite a few washes to get it to the right texture and look I was looking for, as soon as I have it finished I will get some pics up!

Ashton

Holy crap I thought that was a photoshop painting (really I did, and the good type of PS paintings too). Very crisp job there mate!

As I said in your other thread, very nice indeed.

Any chance of a step-by-step? For the red in particular.

Also, the link in your signature doesn't work. Make sure it's

[ U R L = www.example.com ] I want to paint your models for you! Click here! [ / U R L ]

... but without spaces. Replace www.example.com with the URL of your commissions thread.

Those Templars look great. The only shortcoming is in the hammer. It looks like you just painted it with a coat of boltgun metal and called it good. I think given how much time you spent on the body of the model it wouldn't hurt to take some extra time on the weapon too. Other than that they look fantastic.


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Btw, what colors do you use for the exposed face? I tend to paint my models with darker skin but I'm working on a cult-y type army that I'd like to be more pale in appearance.

How'd you do the effect on the white?

@ Popsicle To achieve this color red I use a combination of airbrushing, pin washes, and oil paints. The base color is Vallejo "Black Red" then using Windsor and Newton "Red" and Vallejo "Flat Red" I start building up the highlights. with the most extreme highlights being various mixtures of "Sky Gray" and "Flat Red" It sounds complicated but each of those termies probably too maybe and hour of painting each, it really is'nt so bad.

@Shas'o I use a pretty non-traditional way to paint my faces, I dont recall where I picked up this technique but it always seem to work. First I base coat the face w/ a dark green, usually I use Vallejo "US Tank Green", a thing coat gets applied with my airbrush. Then I mix a fairly thin coat of "Basic Skin Tone" a very pale pink-ish skin color. Then holding the head on the end of a tooth pick, and angling it in such a way so that I am spraying down ward, like a birds eye view, I slowly start building up the flesh tones until I get a shading I like. That is followed up w/ some Ogryn and Griffon Sepia washes to help further define the shadows. Lastly I pick out the eye details and using varous ratios of white and skin tone, pick out the highlights on the face, again sounds complicated but faces I can get down extremely fast, just a few minutes really.

As far as the hammer goes...I have never been a fan of the "energy" look on Thunder hammers, just doesn't seem right, but these guys are a whip and I still have some work to do on the hammers, so we will see how it turns out.

@Slugga I am assuming you mean the white on the Grey Knight? Basically I started out w/ a Testors spray paint called "Modern Desert Sand" A very pale and light sandy tan color. After this dried I airbrushed a very thin coat of Vallejo "Arena Sand" this was sprayed from a "birds eye" view to only get the highlights. The last color sprayed on was white, again sprayed from a "birds eye" view. The result was still more of a yellow looking white rather than a "antique" or bone looking white which was what I was trying to achieve. So I went to work w/ some sepia washes to get it to the point it is at now, using straight white to get the edges of the model and pick out all the highlights. Applying that many sepia washes was rather time consuiming, I think I might try "dipping" in the future to speed up the process....

Thanks to everyone else for the compliments.

Ashton