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A little light for my taste but look great. The melta does look kinda off, But to each their own i guess. Good job man. Did you use an air brush or did you paint it by hand?
Great work on the overall paint job, the glow effect looks great.
Not a fan of the armour I'm afraid, looks washed out. Better then the GW shinning gold however.
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Love the blades, and I think they go well with the less luminous armor. I agree though that the meltaguns are looking kind of off, would have preferred to see some sort of red-hot effect to contrast the swords, of simply a passive "turned off" sooty black color.
In short; awesome swords that go well with the downplayed armor, meltaguns are a bit weird.
Still, ACE! Way better than what I could accomplish.
WOW! Honestly that is some of the finest paint skills I have seen. The glow looks SO REAL! Who cares about the meltagun colour. The glow and everything else is amazing. Truly A+ work!
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Things are looking good, but you have made a common OSL mistake... The source of the light always be MUCH brighter than the glow it casts... right now, the light source and the glow are the same color, more or less.
To demonstrate the point, take the shade off a lamp, and make it the only light on in the room. Place the lamp about 4-5 feet from the wall, you will note the beige/orange/brown color of the glow on the wall, and the creamy white color of the light itself. Now move it closer, and the glow is a bit brighter, but never as bright as the light itself unless you pretty much touch the light to the wall, and even then, the wall has to be pretty satin and nearly white to even get close.
I made the same error the first few times I tried, but knowing the above 'rule' really helps. So the advice I have for you to really sell the effect, is to paint the blades much bright, all the way up to white or pretty close to it.
Nuclealosaur is a master at this, I highly recommend checking him out!
Some pics of these with black background might give them a quite different look. right now Its far to bright to make a realistic light effect IMO.
In daylight you would probably need some sharp contrasting colour like red get thet kind of light shadow, I imagine
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Arf arf arf. Very funny Vulkanshammer.
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