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Ok. So im trying to add some different colors here and there toy nurgle scheme. So what do you think. Is the purple flesh distracting? And sorry in advance if the picture comes up sideways again!

The purple adds a nice contrast IMO, but might be too distracting. Use some sort of wash to tone it down.

Yeah, its a bit off. I dont know if you should go darker or lighter.

Make the skin redder. Green and red are opposites on the contrast scale and thus work well together

Thanks for the input all. Ive rebased the legs in a much darker purple. They don't scream at anymore. I'll come back with some highlights and call it a day. I love purple. Just cant seem to fit it into anything i paint. Lol

Ok. This is somewhat a wip update for anyone interested but mostly an attempt to resize a pic

Looking much better now. The dark purple works really well.

Thanks. Toning it down was good advice (even if i did update it with the picture that hardly shows it! Lol)

So im going for a glowing exhaust. Thoughts?

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Make the skin redder. Green and red are opposites on the contrast scale and thus work well together

Christmas forge fiend.

Coming along nicely, I like the glowing exhaust!

You need to do something moer with the exhausts, the glow is fine but the black is too flat, they need to be metallic or at least highlighted.

Yep. You're right about the insides of the pipes. Smoke will be one of the last steps.

Imho it looks good. The probem I think you're running into is the gold trim in blending with your choice of green. You can adjust that by changing the green darker or lighter or just putting some bright highlights on the green. I am just going by your pics. I think they may be a bit dark.

Obviously ive been working on this guy quite a while. While i liked the glowing pipes, i thought the colors clashed quite a bit with the green. Any thoughts on the piece so far?

Could use a wash. A lot of the metal bits look too "shiny" and "clean", imho.

You could also use various colour washes to 'stain' the green to break it up a bit - it's looking a bit flat at the moment.
I never wish to seem to highjack a thread but here's one of my Nurgle Dreads:

There's still time to distress the body panels a bit.

Ur both right id say. Rust is the last big step. We'll see how much that breaks it up.

Ok. So im fiddling with the rust. Any thoughts?

The rust looks really good. I think you should consider doing something similar with the guns too.

On a side note: what if you made the exhausts glow purple? Then it would tie in with the skin tones. It seems a bit odd with the purple at the base of the model, it needs to be used higher up too.

Hey thanks. To be honest I've never worked with weathering pigments before so I'm still learning. I really want to show some blueing on the gun barrels but rest assured, something's coming for them. Good point about the purple. I'll have to think how i might incorperate that.

 the shrouded lord wrote:

 queen_annes_revenge wrote:
Make the skin redder. Green and red are opposites on the contrast scale and thus work well together

Christmas forge fiend.

All the gifts from Papa Nurgle.

Ok so here's my dilema: having looked at the rust for a couple days now, i couldnt be happierwith the color and texture but i think it looks a bit spotty. Should i cover more area with rust to even the spottiness out?

OLD PAINTER wrote:
Ok so here's my dilema: having looked at the rust for a couple days now, i couldnt be happierwith the color and texture but i think it looks a bit spotty. Should i cover more area with rust to even the spottiness out?

I say leave it the way it is. It doesn't look too spotty imo (could just be the pic though).

Best I can suggest is that rust develops in a very predictable and deliberate way, if you follow that, then it should look "right" but if you've just applied it wherever, your brain might be telling you it's wrong.

Generally, it needs to be rooted in a crevice, or develop from some damage, and it will spread from the source, getting more superficial with distance.

Then you have oxidisation, which is much more superficial than rust, and will likely cover entire areas fairly evenly, but is likely going to leave areas of wear alone, as they won't be left undisturbed long enough for it to accumulate, so should be left as clean,shiny metal.

 azreal13 wrote:
Best I can suggest is that rust develops in a very predictable and deliberate way, if you follow that, then it should look "right" but if you've just applied it wherever, your brain might be telling you it's wrong.

Generally, it needs to be rooted in a crevice, or develop from some damage, and it will spread from the source, getting more superficial with distance.

Then you have oxidisation, which is much more superficial than rust, and will likely cover entire areas fairly evenly, but is likely going to leave areas of wear alone, as they won't be left undisturbed long enough for it to accumulate, so should be left as clean,shiny metal.

Does this apply to Nurgle's rust? Surely that stuff just springs up wherever it likes...?

So i expanded the rust a bit. Seems to have helped out with the spottiness problem some.

Looks really good - putting rust in the guns made a bug difference! I still think you should consider the purple glow on the exhausts though. I think it'll really help w the colour balance.

 Brother Payne wrote:

 azreal13 wrote:
Best I can suggest is that rust develops in a very predictable and deliberate way, if you follow that, then it should look "right" but if you've just applied it wherever, your brain might be telling you it's wrong.

Generally, it needs to be rooted in a crevice, or develop from some damage, and it will spread from the source, getting more superficial with distance.

Then you have oxidisation, which is much more superficial than rust, and will likely cover entire areas fairly evenly, but is likely going to leave areas of wear alone, as they won't be left undisturbed long enough for it to accumulate, so should be left as clean,shiny metal.

Does this apply to Nurgle's rust? Surely that stuff just springs up wherever it likes...?

Doesn't really matter, if our brain "knows" what something is supposed to look like, then if something we see deviates from that established pattern, it will look off.

Besides, if we're going to employ fluff reasoning, surely the metal would rust in exactly the same way, but in a much shorter time scale?

Payne. I havent dismissed the glowing purple idea entirely. Just cant envision it not turning a death engine into a rusty carnival ride. Lol. It makes art theory sense though.

As for the "realism" in the rust pattern azreal you make a good point. Ine of the problems i have is to lay down a "random" pattern. Im one of those guys who cant stand a crooked picture on the wall much less paint one! Even at my age theres a lot left to learn about even the simplest of techniques.

Thanks all for the input!