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how are you going to paint it

I *love* this army, I can remember seeing it on warseer a couple of years ago, but I haven't seen it since before you got to painting the two Lords.

The Daemon Prince is spectacular, absolutely freakin' awesome, looking forward to seeing it painted, and most of all I'm glad to see you're still working on this fantastic army

MOAAR!!!

I shall keep irritating you.

*Poke*

Lol - moar very soon

Excellent!
This is the first time poking has worked.
Apart from stopping people stealing my drumsticks...

*SNATCHED!*
MINE!

I've gotten through a good deal of the painting but I'm not entirely convinced of the colours. I can't work out how to improve the way that it looks - there's just something about the overall appearance of this colour scheme that I can't put my finger on...

Any suggestions or thoughts?

I dunno, looks great to me, maybe blue eyes?

I know what the problem is. Not enough Iron warriors colors. Maybe add some silvery grey to the armor and it'll be good.

I think maybe if you had all gold trim instead of gold and red? like on the ankles it's red fading to gold, if it was all gold it might look more "uniform". And maybe go for an iron look to the spokes in the wings?

Damn, excellent work! Maybe some more gold or brass to make him look more Chaos? Like he needs it, but...

Necros wrote:I think maybe if you had all gold trim instead of gold and red? like on the ankles it's red fading to gold, if it was all gold it might look more "uniform". And maybe go for an iron look to the spokes in the wings?

Yup, red and gold trim looks awkward. The overall thing is awesome though!!

I think the red is the glow from the lava.

typhus wrote:I think the red is the glow from the lava.

Now that makes sense.

I think there's a little too much black for a Iron Warriors Prince.
But It's up to you Lemming.

I lurvs it like a vampire from twilight.

Personally, I think the red and gold trim rocks.

I think you need more variance, to dissern more between the armor and the flesh, through occasional greens or blues in there, suddel hints of cool grey, just to really pop the red. A well, I agree there should be some silver in there somewhere, that or straight brass like a thirster...

I've played around with the colours but I'm going nuts. I'm much happier with the effect now. I'm not entirely happy with the wings but I suck at freehand and I suck at patterning flat surfaces. So I think I'll stay with this final colour scheme unless someone can give me a brilliant idea to finalise the overall effect...

Here's the pics:





My only problem with the colour scheme is it now looks like papa smurf gone bad...lol



edit: and ignore the way the head looks huge - my new camera has this weird fish eye effect when I get closer to the model, creating anything nearer to look slightly enlarged...

The smurfs are heratics.

I like that new color a lot better. The first was just a little too dark/warm red and yellow, which with the red and yellow base just seemed like too much to me. My eye didn't know where to focus.
Perhaps a little more pink on the mutated flesh would help that, but your color variances so far have really helped.
Love the wings too!

Yup, I agree, this second color scheme does work better. Better focus, which does draw attention into the Prince's face.
Very nice work.

Thirded. This looks much better! I like the blue for contrast. Works well!

Fourth'd. It looks much better.

I like what you did with the DP wings. Lovely work.

Awesome

My person opinion would be to darken the red further. ther's very little red in the rest of your army and suddenly having it all in one place will exclude this model. Prehapse more like the deadish flesh on the spikey walking thing earlyer

Also, the red/yellow combo makes it look a bit cheesy, like the original space-hulk... which doesnt do service to the brilliant model.

Fantastic.

Sorry to double post, but just note that red-blue-yellow are the three primary colours. Having them all on one model tends to ed up a bit messy/clashy. (They form brown together)

Project 52 laughs in the face of your colour theory! Hahahaha!



Lol - Yeah I understand what you are saying - that's why I think this one works because the colours are more separated. I am playing around with it again in the future but for now - I'm really over painting it so it gets painting rest for the moment

Bascilica wrote:Sorry to double post, but just note that red-blue-yellow are the three primary colours. Having them all on one model tends to ed up a bit messy/clashy. (They form brown together)

Actually, as they are spaced on the color wheel they make an excellent three-color complement. My Eldar are based on that, for example (though I use gold as my yellow).

To Scarab
Some of the best models i've seen use black, white, silver all mixed with one colour. Then they use a dark form of a colour that is on the opposite end of the spectrum.
ie: 80% icy blue 20% dark red, then the black/white/silver simple affects gradients.
Personally, i find most eldar colour themes garish anyway. Assuming the model in your Display Picture is from your army, there is alot of white there and the red is Muted/darkened, as i recomended to Lemmingspawn in my original post. Geddit?