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Can anyone tell me how to rotate my pictures? i cant find it when trying to edit my post. On my end they are fine but for some reason they rotate on this forum.

I like it.

However, the skin looks a bit dark, it might be the lighting, but really, almost all dark eldar skin should be very pale.

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that color scheme really works on the scourge and the razorwing.

you just reminded me I have to paint my scourge, ugh

Really nice, how have you painted the metallic green?

Iron breaker, washed with biel tan green, highlighted with iron breaker, finally a edge highlight of rune fang steel. (Citadel paints)

I would probably mix some glaze medium with your wash. The problem with just washing metallics is that washes aren't really designed to tint colors like glazes are, they're meant to shade. The result is, like here, the silver tends to shine through where the wash didn't tint as much because it doesn't provide an even tint over the whole surface. It ends up looking like a silver with green inks splashed on it rather than a metallic green. Overall, it looks okay if that's the effect you're going for, but I think it misses the mark if you're actually trying to get a metallic green look.


Also, I'd try to change the color of the bone spikes on the grotesques, as they just kind of blend in with the skin color. Overall, really nice attempts at colored metallics! It's not easy, I know. I'm trying something similar for my Alpha Legion.

 lawlskees wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to rotate my pictures? i cant find it when trying to edit my post. On my end they are fine but for some reason they rotate on this forum.

There's nothing in the forum software to do it, currently. Before you upload them, you need to open in an image editor, rotate to the way you want them to be (or make some other small change if they're already displaying correctly in your editor), and then save. This over-writes the bit of code in the image file that tells software which way up the camera was originally held (which is what the forum software uses to display the image, which is why they display sideways).



Nice work, by the way

Bob, great tips. I might try that sometime. I really wanted not just a metallic green but more of like a warn metallic look as well. Almost antique-ish. The pictures don't do them justice but in person they look very realistic almost. Or antique-ish. Like the green is tarnished in parts rather than doing scrapes or cracks in the armor.

I actually think the green-tinted silver looks really nice on the infantry and even the grotesque. It's mostly on the flat surfaces of the vehicles that I think some glaze medium would allow for better coverage the green on the silver.

Yea i have to agree with you bob. so much that I experimented with a new color scheme, ya really got to me man hahahahaha. check out my forum topic "pick your favorite color scheme" in this forum (painting and modeling showcase). I just posted it. Let me know what you think i'd like to hear from you.

Actually, ill just post it here too.

I did this guy today.

Honestly, I like the green scheme a lot more. I think the overall look fits Dark Eldar much better and it's a lot more unique. I just think the application on vehicles could use a little work. I'd keep toying around with the green metal scheme; maybe pick up some glaze medium and see how it improves the application of your wash over the metals.

What im going to do is try and get some better pics of the vehicles for you to look at. in the meantime ill try to get some of that medium to experiment. issue is ive already done 5 venoms, 2 raiders, 1 ravager, and 2 razorwings the green, and i don't plan on picking up anything but 3 more venoms in the sometime distant future. So...i really dont have much to expirment with except for the smller units.

 lawlskees wrote:
Iron breaker, washed with biel tan green, highlighted with iron breaker, finally a edge highlight of rune fang steel. (Citadel paints)

Thanks.

Loving that green. Weird about the pics though not sure how that happens :-(