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Great Blood Ravens. Got a few painting questions...advice would be extremely helpful.

When you say "thin coats", how much is that? How much do you water down your paints?

How did you do the shoulder pads?

wow my first models are in a box were no one can see them and i still dont have any worth posting props to you man that is amazing work

wow my first models are in a box were no one can see them and i still dont have any worth posting props to you man that is amazing work

My two fav models from your space marines have to be the librarian and the leader of the first tactical squad. Well posed and dynamic as well as great painting.

hungryugolino wrote:Great Blood Ravens. Got a few painting questions...advice would be extremely helpful.

When you say "thin coats", how much is that? How much do you water down your paints?

How did you do the shoulder pads?

Sorry, I dont use any sort of a scientific approach to it. I just sort of play it by eye, adding more water until i get it like I want it.

The shoulder pads are just deneb stone, thin coats till its solid, then bleached bone, thin coats till you have a solid colour.

Another work in progress from me.

For the motherland.

Hi chap. Ive only just joined the forum but Ive been watching this thread since it started and I just had to say your blood ravens are without a dought the best ones I have ever seen for painting conversions thought effort the lot none of the ones at games day any GTs ive been to or anywhere else have been as nice to look at

Truffle wrote:Hi chap. Ive only just joined the forum but Ive been watching this thread since it started and I just had to say your blood ravens are without a dought the best ones I have ever seen for painting conversions thought effort the lot none of the ones at games day any GTs ive been to or anywhere else have been as nice to look at

Thank you

He's a heavy bugger isnt he?

I have to agree the model does look top heavy.

oaktree wrote:I have to agree the model does look top heavy.

I take it you don't do much with warmachine? Pinning is your friend in that game.

oaktree wrote:I have to agree the model does look top heavy.

That's nothing, you should see the "Extreme" Warjacks.

THIS.IS.AWESOME.

Coolest looking Blood Ravens EVAR.

Yeah, if you dont like the warmachine style, it can't really be helped.

Khador especially look incredibly top heavy, and the behemoth is the most top heavy of all of them. Just wait till it has the two giant bombard cannons on its shoulders.

Yep, every single joint on this model except the head has been pinned with a 1cm rod, and the wast has been pinned with a 3cm copper rod, going right up into its torso, but is not glued yet, as I am painting the torso and legs seperetly. Tho the legs are basically finished!

My current khador force is a lot of warjacks and stuff to paint.

Always so much to paint....

I had him in my force untill i sold my Khador force as I needed the room

Miss Dee wrote:I had him in my force untill i sold my Khador force as I needed the room

Ah, too bad, if you had any Khador models left, I might have been interested in getting them from you!

Looks awesome, but have you considered painting the face of the model first?

person person wrote:Looks awesome, but have you considered painting the face of the model first?

I did the eyes of the khador jack.

But I'm going by colour atm.

Getting all the red done, then the bronze, then the silver...

Since his 'jaw' is all bronze, it'll be coming once i finish the red

Wow, nice work, Look forward to seeing the completely painted model.

Go for Nyss Hunters next as they are deadly.

Another WIP.

People have told me many times I should attempt painting that isn't sharp edge highlighting, which has always been a crutch for me.
So I am doing my first attempts at blending highlighting on my khador force.



Comments welcome, also suggestions!

Again, nice work.
What colour are you painting the metal on it? or is it just going to be plain silver.
Try painting it rusty

I have a tone of No Quater's in storage.

Nice!
And welcome to warmachine and Khador.
I'm Khador player too )

I just LOVE your style of painting.

Kudos.

- Clusters of brain all over the walls , the smell of blood an guts fill the air -

That was my reaction to what you've done recently(the Khador and the latest Blood Ravens )

Once the rest of the paint starts to go on that model begins to look incredably nice. Cheers to that.

Nice work on the blends, the red areas above the head look good and are most visible once the fig is finished.

But then to the problems. Once the bombard go on their place the placing of highlights on the arms might make sense, but currently, especially in the left arm, you have made the lowest area of the red shoulder armor the brightest. It should be other way round if light is coming from above.

I like the pose a lot and once the metals are also in place this is going to look stunning.

Metsuri wrote:Nice work on the blends, the red areas above the head look good and are most visible once the fig is finished.

But then to the problems. Once the bombard go on their place the placing of highlights on the arms might make sense, but currently, especially in the left arm, you have made the lowest area of the red shoulder armor the brightest. It should be other way round if light is coming from above.

I like the pose a lot and once the metals are also in place this is going to look stunning.

Thanks for the feedback.

I too noticed this problem, it sems from my lack of experience in this form of highlighting. Its def a learning experience I'll apply to future warjacks and models.

I dont think it'll look bad as a result, tho.