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Beautiful work! I get a real sense of cold mechanical purpose from these and indeed the new pictures showcase your paint job much better! Keep it up!

Cheers fella - didnt realise how big the new shots are - lol. next comes a squad of rangers and then the big bad Thanatar!

That marble effect on your Knight sure is interesting, and you accomplished it well. The Kataphrons, well, all I can say is, wow, just wow...

Thx very much there Zerg. Glad to have the marble totally finished now. It'll get weathered pretty heavily later on but first need to get the rest of the metals done. Kats were fun...definitely gonna get some more at some point and make the breacher variants. Moar armour!!

Nice wee bit of progress. This is the final batch of parts to get their main paint. Marble is all done. Blues are down and it's on to the brass trim

Looking excellent, as we've come to expect .

Any thoughts on decals or freehand house themes?

EDC

Funny you should mention that. Just made a start on the Knight's tilting plate.
If you look back a page or so I think I posted up some of the sketches for his heraldry. It'll be mostly freehand. I'll use a few danger decals but the heraldry will have to be done with the brush.

Those Kataprhons are awesome, love the Skitarii platform

Cheers Myr, really chuffed how they turned out. Platform took a wee bit of doing - reversing the chasis and that but worked out in the end. Ah the usefulness of old sprue -lol

Mini update. Did a little more on the tilting plate. Helmet is coming along...... I think. Scuse the crispy photo

Love that heraldry! Really nice work!

Cheers Bash. It's a trial before the banner between his legs. Not exactly nmm, but it's as close as I get

Very nice! Setting off the sublime marble and metalwork with freehand like that is a surefire way to make this one of the best (maybe even the best) Knights I've seen.

Thx very much Para. Was a touch nervous starting the freehand. but seem so to have gone well so far. still need to add in the trident. Not sure to have it in front of or behind the helmet. The it's onto the banner,......tomoro.....maybe - lol

I say put the trident behind the helm. That's traditional on this style of heraldry from what I've seen and you don't want to break up that nice bronze blend.

Random question, but do you have any background in art at all? You seem to have a very good understanding of how colours work and interact, and a real knack for designing stuff like this.

Wow, that's a cracker! Love getting to see your work really shin on the big panels these projects give you.

That free(blade)hand skill! Amazing work janny!

Nice work so far on the shield, fantastic freehand !

Crkey - thx so much you guys. Means a lot. Freehand designs are loadsa fun. One of the best parts of hobby is doing all the designs and doodles for the figs I'm painting. My wall is covered in pages of the stuff!!!
@Para - no formal training in art per se but I've been drawing and painting pretty much all my life. Had a few watercolour exhibitions back in the day. I never went to art college but my father is an artist so I had a good teacher


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Oh - while I think of it - just going through my ipad sorting wip photos. That last batch of marble plates I did for the knight - I phot'd pretty much every step along the way. Is anyone interested in a wee 'how to...' article/tut/whatever? If y'are, I'll try and put something together

Jan

I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing how you did that marble. I don't know if I'll ever have a use for marble for my projects, but some of the techniques could probably apply to other things. And btw your freehand work on that tilting plate is great! Wish I could do freehand that well. My own freehand is garbage, probably because I don't do enough of it.

Cheers Zerg. I find freehand is more about being prepared and knowing exactly what youre going for. Sketch that design out beforehand larger on a piece of paper then shade it with pencil so you know where your darks and lights should be going. Then draw it with a light mechanical pencil onto your fig. Then get painting with your best brush. For the tilting plate I used a W&N S7 #0 & #1 brushes. Oh and thin those paints even more than usual!!

As for the marble 'stepbystep' - I'm working on it!!!!! I've never done one of these before so I really hop it makes sense!!!

It's weird, I'm a painter and illustrator by trade, but I've never had the confidence to apply freehand to a miniature. I'm bloody envious of your confidence to do so (and do it well!).

Seconding that I'd like to see the steps.

The steps for the marble is on the make, will try and try and get it posted up today or more likely tomro.

Would one on freehand be useful too? I haven't started the banner for the knight yet so I could do one for that if folk would find it useful...

Wow. Check out that tilting plate.

Great work.

EDC

Cheers EDC - one one thing left to add to it and then that's another thing done. Determined to get this fella finished before Mum arrives fro Christmas with all my FW goodies - lol

The step by step for that how to paint a marble effect I did is now done and up over on my other blog. You can find it here: http://warpbound.blogspot.kr/

Hope it makes sense and folk'll find it somewhat useful
Cheers

Jan

Thanks for that, I'll check it out in more detail later and then try and find a mini to apply it to... perhaps Lorgar's base...

No worries Para. Just hope it followable.....yeah...that's so not a word!!!

Fairly solid start on the heraldry

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