First blog I'm making.
Edit: I started out with Infinity and mostly posting finished models, but I decided to keep this blog updated with most things I'm working on, being Infinity, EFT and 40k.
I first wanted to start Haqqislam, but I found a Yu Jing starter pack at a decent price so picked that one up :p I really like the domaru model, but I will probably replace it with 2 tiger soldiers when I'm actually going to play (still just played one game of Infinity -and tabletop in general- ever!).
The Tuareg is already finished, but just because I love the model. I don't think I'm going to use it in a 150pt. game after all. I do have some ghulam and a doctor waiting to be painted and I will probably try sculpting a helmet for the bandaged one, because I hate his head :p it's too high and so thin it couldn't possibly contain a decent set of brains.
All the models still need decent basing or at least some paint on the basing. I used some normal glue first, but a hobby store nearby sells some stuff to fix all kinds of bits to a surface, so I'm waiting for the next delivery to pick it up.
First groupshot:
Second groupshot + piece of terrain
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Zhanshi:
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Celestial guard & Invincible: (damn I notice I have to fix up the guard's shoulder pad :s)
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Tuareg: It's not visible on the picture, but the gun refects a lot of light normally -in a wrong way- I worked with diluted Game color black, and for some reason it looks wet, so I might fix it up some time.
The academic year is starting tomorrow in Belgium! (well at least for me ^^)
I've had the opportunity to start this hobby (Infinity) with plenty of time during summer vacation. I really hope I will have enough time from now on
I tried converting a ghulam rifle into a rifle + LGL, and I'm almost done sculpting something representing a helmet for the ghulam with bandaged head ^^ I will try to upload pictures of everything this weekend, and ask for comments on the LGL as I'm not sure of the size.
So, this is what I'm currently at. The pictures of the ghulam are taken, but I'm wondering where I put them :p
I'd like some advice on the next colour to use. I'd like to paint the chest and shoulder panels in a much lighter shade of violet, but I'm not sure if I'd add a third colour. I would leave the leather sections in this light gray I used on the other models, and the clothing will be painted like the orange/brown clothing that I also did before. So what do you think?
Well, it's definitely a color- and powerful scheme.
It's matter of taste of course and I don't want to be too negative, but I'm not convinced to be honest.
Seeing just the base tones it's hard to tell, but I guess it could look good in the end. My first impulse would be getting rid of the yellow though.
Replace it with white/grey/black any noncolor or some desaturated color, like a pale brown and it will make the violett much more bearable.
Baiyuan wrote: Well, it's definitely a color- and powerful scheme.
It's matter of taste of course and I don't want to be too negative, but I'm not convinced to be honest.
Seeing just the base tones it's hard to tell, but I guess it could look good in the end. My first impulse would be getting rid of the yellow though.
Replace it with white/grey/black any noncolor or some desaturated color, like a pale brown and it will make the violett much more bearable.
Yeah like I said the yellow which is slightly more orange in real life, will end up with the ochre tone of the leather on the zhanshi, and I'll try to make the violet more like the stuff on the celestial guard and invincible. This picture is taken with another camera as the first pictures, so that might explain the change in colour a bit.
Anyway, I think I found some inspiration. The yellow you mentioned should turn out a more ochre tone, and I found the following scheme; I think I'll add this sanguine tone as third colour.
http://www.painters-online.co.uk/userfiles/image/LPderwent3.jpg
Think it looks good, and a grey should provide a nice neutral colour - certainly very strong colours, will be interested to see how it turns out once completed!
So I also found the pictures of the ghulam and the LGL.
Tell me what you think. I know the helmet doesn't look like a halqa helmet by far, but it does it's job right? I can use him as either ghulam or halqa now.
The light grenade launcher is made from a toothpick. What do you think of it? Is the magazine big enough? The barrel long enough? What could I do to improve the detail?
Smooth that lgl over with some thin putty so as to obscure the wood grain - aside from that, meh, buggers are supposed to be smooth. Besides, once it's painted you'll rarely ever look closely enough to notice more detail than this again
Hi,
It's been a very long time since I updated this, which I knew from the beginning, but I still want to gather my progress in one place.
I hope you guys don't mind and give me feedback aswell from time to time ^^
So today I'm posting the almost finished Tiger Soldiers. They only need basing, and I really want to rework the HMG weapon! I tried mixing in some colours to step away from all greytone guns, but I failed hard ^^ I think I better paint them in grey tones and then add washes/inks :/
additional picture:
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And then I also started painting up my Ghulam for the Haqqislam starter list. They also need some basing, and maybe a rework on the wood part of the gund, though I won't see that on table And I did forget the gems in their gloves :c Next are the doc and the ghulam with helmet and grenade launcher which I'm going to proxy as a halqa!
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Btw I tried to make pictures this time, so they're not as clear as the first ones ^^
Very nice job. I'm not normally a fan of brown (unless it's used for leather on historical minis) but you've managed to pull it off when, and it's a lovely contrast with the blue.
Nice, clean brushwork as well.
Think the Tigers look good - have you thought about maybe adding in a bit more brown into the mix (the gloves perhaps?) just to break up the blue/grey you mentioned?
Hmm, maybe I can redo some parts on the tigers indeed. I will try do add some colour in the gloves, and probably also the tubes in their neck.
And the brown on the ghulam was actually a tiny mistake. I wanted a more desert tone, but for some reason started mixing up this shade of brown. Then it reminded me of valkyria chronicles for some reason, and I adjusted the shade of blue and red to go along with it.
Really liking your work. I've been at odds with whether or not I would want to do any major modifications to my minis (If it isn't broke, why fix it?), but that little bit of GSing you did on your Ghulam adds a lot of character. And using a toothpick to convert an LGL was also very clever. Great painting too.
Definitely keeping an eye on this.
Heh thanks I'm also pretty new to the hobby, so I love the occasional sculpting (the easy things) because I can get used to the materials and the techniques without worrying I will mess things up
I'm busy painting the next ghulam, the doctor and the one I gave a LGL and Helmet. Having a little problems with the colours, now I know I've got to keep track what paints I use ^^
I'm pretty happy about them, I've got the colours about right. I'm only thinking of redoing the butt of the doctor, and the highlights on the LGL.
I would also like some comments on the helmet of the LGL guy. You can't see it clearly, but it shines a lot. I also don't really know how to highlight the thing, because it's a big 'flat' surface.
Today my dad did bring shiny and matte varnish from his work, I'm going to test it hopefully this weekend or next week. Some guys from the gaming club told me I should look into varnish if I did put much time painting the minis, though it could be expensive. As my dad works at a paint company that shouldn't be a problem if the varnish if of good quality ^^ then he can bring loads.
I'm also really happy about them as a group, how the blue ties everything together. (And the red helmet destroys some part of it :/)
The Tiger Soldiers are now touched up, receiving some more colour on the gloves, and it does really help.. so thx Pacific ^^
I've redone the HMG too, just gray, black wash, light grey hl's, I feared messing things up if I tried much more doing something special as before :p
My order of the Tuareg hacker, Odalisque spitfire and Naffatun has arrived, so those will be painted next, starting with the tuareg A guy at the gaming club is selling his Hassassin Bahram models, since he wants to continue Qapu Khalqi and needs some money, and then hopefully after next month I can also start showing some fidays and the Asawira <3
I gotta say I loooove your Ghulam. It sorta reminds me of my color scheme for my Haqq, but your tans are darker and your accent color is the red instead of orange. The blues in this light are almost like PanO's blue.
And they look splendid.
I gotta agree with you on the helmet. Red is your accent color, and the Blue seems to be your armor color, it would have made more sense to paint the helmet in the Blue to sort of follow that theme, and it would make him stand out a bit less.
I also really like how you split the color on the female Ghulam's vest. All around the dark brown color you used on them looks really good. I'm looking forward to more!
Haha, now that you mention it -I went to have a look, because I only saw your latest YuJing in green- I did inspire myself on your lasiq and al-djabel!
I must have come across them in the gallery section, I love the soft browns you used on those two in particular ^^
I decided to pick blue as a main colour because of those two pictures, but then I went along with the dark brown because it worked.
It reminded me of a reverse Valkyria chronicles-scheme if that sounds familiar Then I just tried to make everything more crispy :p
But damn, I do intend to keep that blue colour coming back in my army, if you don't mind :p
Maybe later this week someone of my family can help me photoshop the helmet blue, to see what that does before I paint it.
The Ghulam look awesome, the paint scheme really brings out the details. Your conversions on the LGL look great and blend very nicely with that coat of color.
I have to agree with you and Chemical Cutthroat on the red helmet. It is a great accent color but it becomes a bit loud with the whole helmet being just pure red. IMHO you could leave the trim and ear guards red and paint the skull cap blue to really pull it together. Not to nit-pick, I really like the mini and paint job. And hey, all that red might be distracting for any snipers who might want to pick him off
Chemical Cutthroat wrote: Whats this you say? Paint scheme inspired by Valkyria Chronicles, one of my favorite games ever?!
You mean perhaps... like this?
I like the way you think sir!
Exactly!
@Xysis Thx^^ and alright, you convinced me to really look into chaning the red I just wasn't sure, I'll look into the blue helmet
@Red Harvest I have no experience with basing really. That bit of sand on my first YuJing is the first I've done as far as that goes. Some guys at the gaming club said I should wait in the future with glueing the minis on the bases untill I've finished a base.
And then with all my next minis I should start thinking on what I want to know if I should glue it on already or not :p
So, I was thinking the sand of my zhanshi (less gravel) + maybe a tuft of long grass and a small rock. Recently there was a tutorial vid to make tufts of grass from old brushes, so maybe I'll try that.
Everybody does bases differently. Some people like to make cool scenic basis and then glue/pin their models on afterwards. Some people paint the bases last, some paint them first.
I sand my bases before I prime the models, and then prime the sand and model all at once. Then I do all the messy drybrushing on the base right off the bat, then start painting the model proper. That way, I can clean up any of the drybrushing I get on the model's legs and ankles and whatnot.
Once the model is all done, I rim the base in black, and the apply whatever grass/snow/extrabits that I was going to add. And then it is done!
But I don't do super-fancy bases. I theme all of my Infinity exactly the same... which is super boring to some, but I plan on making my own ridiculous table one day, so I want them all to fit the same scheme.
Instead of adding basing after the model was painted, I tried to base the following before painting. Because I was too lazy to search for plyers/cutter (we moved house past weekend, so everything is still stored up :p) I just based around the base slot, and plan on basing over the mini slot again.
Should I fill the gaps in the base of the Fiday with greenstuff?
I used regular white sand, and some gravel my dad had at his work. Apparently it's materials to add to paints to create matte effects etc. I noticed it's too small to get details really. I need to use a bigger grain to actually be able to highlight it I think, but I'll try this for now .
I obviously started with the female Hassassin, because Fiday & Lasiq I plan on painting a Yoko (Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann) scheme on the Fiday, and maybe a Browncoat scheme for the Lasiq. I do however want the models to fit my ghulam, so i'm not really clear how i'm going to paint individual distinctive schemes while mainting a certain order.
Ladies:
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Fiday:
Lasiq, killing some giant insect creatures (during the movement the windows and doors had been open for a while, we had to kill them critters )
Lasiq is one of my favourite miniatures in the Haqqislam range. Actually, scratch that - the whole Infinity range. She is a beaut, looking forward to seeing what kind of job you make with her!
I would just chuck a bit of greenstuff on the base, that should suffice.
Yeah, Greenstuff works fine. What I do is once they're glued to the base, but before I sand the base, I'll superglue a little strip of paper over the holes in the base. Usually the 'Complaint Number' papers that come with the models. It dries quick and then once it is sanded over you can't tell at all.
I need to pick up that Fiday! I don't know why I don't have her already, really looking forward to what you get painted up.
I've taken these WIP pics with the most horrible cam in the house :p for some reason I could take the picture from the more advanced WIP this evening with flash, don't really know how :p
So if it's not obvious, I've painted her as Yoko from Gurren Lagann. Flames on her top and yellow hazard stripes on the boarding shotgun incoming I do think she looks a bit as a harlequin with the yellow, blue and red, so I might try to make the ochre/yellow more pale, and the blue highlights a bit lighter, so that it doesn't become a rainbow.
So that's flames/hazard stripes, visor and reworking of the blue highlights to be done for sure, I'll update when I've done those ;D
Automatically Appended Next Post: Btw the greenstuff to fit the slotta base worked out perfect, thx. And I really liked working on the base of both the Fiday and Lasiq Experimenting with earthy colours was fun to do.
An excellent job so far. I think the colors so far are working great, and I look forward to the shotgun to see how it all fits together. I actually just put this model together last night, so I'm looking forward to taking a stab at painting her up too. Looking forward to seeing her complete!
Red Harvest wrote: Ah the BS Fiday. Excellent mini. Nice bright paint. I like it.
Thx, yes together with the Tuareg sniper model they are my favorite, though this mini itself is better than the tuareg ^^
So here's an additional picture, where I changed the highlights on the black a bit, I highlighted the white parts and did some flames on her chest. Still gotta do the visor and highlight the blues on her glove/kneecaps:
and some more things I've done:
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Changed the helmet on the Halqa/Ghulam proxy, I'm okay with this. Chemical Cutthroat you'll think it's far from tactical I think xD but it's less aggressive than completely red And I added some glossy varnish, going to add matte later, when I added glossy varnish to the yujing and fiday (was actually experimenting with varnish on the tuareg first)
Also, I tried painting gems, you can barely see it on this pic, forgot to make a close-up =) So figuring out how to do the visor on the fiday shouldn't be too hard ^^
So here's the tuareg, I've added a coat of floss garnish and matte varnish, but left the gun. I'm still going to add matte varnish to the gun, it's a little too shiny for my taste ^^
(+ anyone know if you can still paint on top of varnish? I think you can because it's just medium I think? like paint with a transparent color?)
And then just an addidional pic of the fiday, with the boarding shotgun, still gotta fix those hazard stripes and fix some highlights than went wrong ^^
I'm liking how the Yoko/Fiday is coming along. Very interesting look you're going for. Though, the faux flesh comes across as looking a tad odd. Still, great job.
And did you sculpt that Ghulam's helmet on, or was it done through a headswap?
@Chemical Cutthroat, Yes they are too shiny at this moment Someone at the gaming club told me to apply a glossy varnish first, then a matte for double protection without the shiny. I tested that on the tuareg first, and since it came out alright, I started with the ghulam ^^
@Barzam, I'm still thinking I should make the ochre a lot more pale, to match the suit of my ghulam doc, and some details of the ghulam, at this point it's still a lot of yellow :/ Maybe I'll try and photoshop it to see what it could look like ^^
I sculpted the helmet on the ghulam I didn't like the bandage sculpt + I also like to try new things out.
At this point I'm still new to most things. Really, apart from learning the basic painting on some 40k test models and a couple of daemonettes I tried converting, everything I post in this blog is done for the first time so far (so the little sculpting, gem effect, basing,... btw those yujing are my first completely painted models ^^ )
Soo, with some delay, here's the final product: ^^
I prefer how I did the gun this way. With some shades of colour into the greys of the gun, and with much lighter highlights. I've got to work extra careful this way, because it shows much harder if your strokes arent that clean ^^ I think I did the visor okay, but I could go darker at the bottom imho, Took this picture with my dads camera in better lighting, the colour of the suit is actually okay on this one. It's still a bit more ochre than the suits of my ghulam, but I think it should be clear the colours are meant to fit in. Only need to varnish the mini, but that's for later
Because I started working on this cherry blossom girl ^^ it's the model from the starter box, and I didn't paint her because I was scared to mess it up. Since I've done a couple of models now, I think I can manage this. I just imagine the bright tones will show mistakes a lot easier :/
I think Yoko turned out excellent. The highlighting on the gun is well done and bright, and the blues are blended in well.
The pink Domaru is going to be great when it's all said and done, I really really like what you have so far, as it is already shaping up very nicely. Can't wait to see more.
Soo,
Couldn't hold myself starting the Lasiq Obviously the coat would be brown, I went for a browncoat theme like malcolm reynolds, but the there's so much blue that it actually doesn't remember of him :/ It does fit in with my ghulam and yoko. When this girl is done I'll make a group shot
-looks like this first picture is focussed on the rock on the base, sorry :p just noticed it now-
I really like the coat, the detail makes it a bit more easy to highlight and give depth. However, the blue parts I find hard to paint :s At the moment i've got these hard dark lines separating the sections, but it needs to be less aggressive, so probably an extra colour. I also don't really know how to highlight some parts of the blue cape, would it be best layering it, or wet blending it? I've never done any of those techniques, but I do want to try them ^^ I also don't know yet how I'm going to give depth to the boots
Here's some additional pics:
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Then there's the domaru :s
I started the lasiq also because I didn't know what to do with this armor. I wanted a cherry blossom theme, and a sort of gradient from the nice pink/purple color, to a white, a bit of an aleph scheme, but obviously linked to the sakura blossom.
Atm she's pretty pink, and I don't know if I should layer the armor parts or try to wet blend, or simple edge highlight with a very light pink or so. I've already done armor parts once on the shang ji, but I didn't really need any transitions, and it had enough crevices and edges to highlight and wash to look convincing, but this I really could use some help with ^^
The lines and curves of the Domaru are so smooth that wet blending would be the better call. Edge highlighting seems to be better for sharper edges, and she is hella curvy. It might be good practice!
I find the opposite with the Lasiq. She has those nice edged blcoks on her coat that work well with a bit of edgework. I really like the yellow/tan/sandy color for her bodysuit, its a nice tone with the blues.
Ooh, cherry blossom pink. Neat idea. Go with blending. Look at how Angel Giraldez painted the studio versio though, for inspiration. ( or depression, when the realization sets in how much higher his skill level is than everybody else's :( )
I like the Lasiq. Good start on it. Then again It is one of my favorite minis in the Haqq range.
Got a little work done on the highlighting. I went for layering with very diluted paint, pulling the pigment towards the highlighted spots. I've only done the pink for now, but still need a lot more layers (done about three now), reworking ont he belt, adding some layers on the arm (I've had the wrong position of the arm in mind, and put the highlights on the wrong spot :p)
I hope you can see it, because the lighting gives a natural highlight, and I've tried this week to take pictures, but the lighting was always too bad, reminding me to look up how to make a simple light box of any kind Wet blending scared me a bit on those tiny surfaces, maybe I'll try that on the lower part of the Lasiqs coat (since it's a nice big area, compared to the tiny limbs of the domaru :p).
That is looking excellent man. Great work. Going to leave the cables that richer dark color while bringing the rest up to a much brighter tone? Could be cool!
Ahh thx ^^ Haven't really searched for tutorials, but this is makes it easy (a)
I'm also quite busy with school atm, so I'm probably not making progress until next week or so.
I am planing on highlighting the cables, but I'm not changing the color if that's what you mean? I notice the wash has pooled quite a bit, but matte varnish will help a lot I suspect?
Heya, found some time today to finish the armor of the Domaru. Maybe I can fix some parts of the grey, but I'm actually happy with it. I think my attempt to highlight the armor will take some attention away from other mistakes ^^
Still gotta find another colour for the katanas. I tought maybe a bright orange or deep yellow would fit? Painting the rifle and basing it will finish the job ^^ I'm thinking adding some Japanese natural stones to the base. I initially wanted to base it representing a cherry blossom stone, but since I glued the model to the base already, I don't think that will be possible :c
Look up the cherry blossom stones, they're actually quite nice, and I didn't know they existed untill I started looking for some sakura inspiration ^^
And some additional pics:
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And also a pic of some papercraft I'm making for Infinity (I really don't know If I'm going to make enough scenery to play at home, or just bring it to the club to play. I'm just a year into this hobby and I've got too much random piles of papercraft, little shapes of whatever I could find that would be useful, minis I'm not finishing shortly... :p So maybe I should wait before trying to fill a board (a)
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I had to take of the front of the chickenhawk because while we were moving houses a while back, it must have been damaged :/ I'm thinking the cicada is storing up it's wings like that when it's parked, and if I should start a board or whatever, I'm thinking of making a workshop where it's being repaired or something :p
Then there's these random things I wanted to show you, I don't think I'm going to make a blog about it.:
I started choosing out some goblins I have had for some time to repaint (it was a deal from someone who gave his lotr armies to the club, and the club sold them to new players to fund shelving materials for scenery ). I've got to paint 3 more goblins w shield and 11 with spear T.T, and then paint all the bases. That will sum up to around 200pts of goblins and I don't know what to add next: wild wargs, wargriders, a troll or blackshields :p If any of you has experience or knowledge of lotr, please convince me what would be best? I'd want wargriders, but I'll have to convert them, because I don't want to throw any more money on minis atm xD (I've got enough orcs to convert, got them from a friend)
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And also this pile of 25mm squares I'm making, not telling you yet what for though
Your Domaru is looking really nice. She'll look great alongside your Yoko assassin. Your papercraft though, yours is going together so much better than mine ever did. I'm jealous.
@Chemical Cutthroat Thx I've put a lot of patience in it. You can clearly see I skipped the grey a big part compared to the pink, but the idea was that the armor had a sort of colour gradient, and therefor the grey doesn't really need it I think? Besides, I'm just learning these techniques I come across, so I'm more than happy with it And lol, no I don't think such an artistic piece would make it nsfw ^^
What do you think most people do when painting? Assemble fully and paint, paint each separatly, or depending on what difficult spots you might come across?
@Barzam Thx I'm actually busy right now basing every model that needs to be based (gotta fix all those slotta gaps T.T) and since I've waited with that on pretty much each model I've done so far, I'm looking at 19 models already :/ But I'm not putting a lot of work in it yet. After that I'll take some group pictures And heh, I actually tried the chickenhawk on cheap paper in black/white before I printed it in better quality, and I've done some dave graffam containers, so It's going a lot easier already :p When I've mastered paper, maybe I can move on to plasticard!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Bleh, I notice I'm using a lot of emorkticons when I'm typing (a)
I'm one of the guys that will fully assemble and base my models, THEN prime them and get started on painting. I've always done that, and though it makes painting some people difficult, it is better than the alternative for me.
I had tried to do it the other way with a High Elf I was working on, had his shield and greatsword separate while working on the main part of his armor.
I still have the Elf... I don't have any of his gear now. Lord knows where it is.
So now I just slam it all together and hope for the best when painting later.
So, I've been busy studying lately (a) my final exam is in two days. I still found the time to work on some things in between though :p
My Infinity models are all based now, some are painted (but need a last layer of drybrushing) but most of the yujing are still waiting to get a coat ^^
And thanks to Chemical Cutthroat and KingCracker I decided to try the Endless Fantasy Tactics game. I was looking for a small scaled game to maybe actually start playing stuff ^^
I wanted a game that was relatively cheap aswell, but I kinda misjudged the situation :p The prices are really good I think, but the shipping cost and the extra taxes -I didn't know about them T.T- were almost as much as the stuff I ordered, so the price unexpectedly doubled :c And that right in between the ending of the kickstarter and the start of the summer sales at OTLG :p I really picked the wrong time to start this game :p
As I was waiting for the order, and in between studying I was looking for extra miniatures to complete the starter parties I wanted to try. I found an old dark age miniature in a box with random miniatures at the local shop, and I converted it a bit to resemble the dark priest. I also got a general of the empire model, but I regret I bought it. I think it doesn't really fit the style I'm going with, and the heroic scale is also a bit odd. I'm still going to paint up the mounted model for some painting fun, hopefully trying out new techniques to learn (: I tried wetblending the cape of the Knight btw, so that's another technique I've tried, and intend to use again on the priest robes.
So here's my current work, and a scale shot of some other minis i got and will be using to proxy some stuff.
The knight is still missing the mouthpiece and a shield. I'm hoping the mouthpiece will partly cover up his face that is mainly the thing making him look weird next to the others.
Extra shot of his cape:
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Where I'm at with the dark priest:
And a scale shot of the EFT minis I have received next to some other minis I have:
From left to right: EFT, EFT, Anima Tactics, Iron Kingdoms, Iron Kingdoms, EFT I'm going to try and hide the scale differences by adding some higher bases to the PP models, maybe removing/remodelling some lower parts of the summoner/priest models I don't know yet ^^ The scale differences also don't really bother me that much. the Dark Knight is pretty cool as a giant, so I'm defo leaving him like that :p (not that there's anything to alter to that model anyway ^^)
I can proxy the anima tactics model as a pugilist hopefully, I don't know if I should try and remove the shield, and the iron kingdom models will serve as a knight and bandit/gunsmith. The knight will hopefully replace the GW knight
Good luck with your exams. The EFT minis look 35mm compared to the rest. It would be interesting to see them in a line-up with some Malifaux and Infinity minis too.
Yes, they are quite big. I haven't got any Malifaux, but I'll try and make a space marine/Infinity comparison tomorrow ^^ (too dark to take pictures now)
And thanks, I still have one more day to study, so I hope it all fits in my head T.T
Finally, did my last exam today ^^ but I just have a couple of days before I'm starting my student job :p At least I don't have to study, so maybe I have more time in the evenings next month ^^
So here's the scale comp with a CSM and ghulam. This was the only model that could stand tall, the others fell and I was too lazy to get a piece of tape to make the others stand aswell.
I think the priest will be looking neat next to the EFT models.
The ghulam is based as I said before, just needs one or two finishing drybrush layers (:
Aha! Seems I've infected Mach with the EFT stuff. Excellent. I'm looking forward to seeing what you paint up!
I was going to pick up the Dark Knight, but they were sold out when I was ordering. Little did I know that they were made In House so that didn't matter. He's next on my list, he's a brute and looks like a lot of fun to paint.
I actually just got my next three models in! I'll have pictures up tomorrow likely. I'm going to get them cleaned up and assembled, but painting priority goes to my Heavy Gear stuff right now.
Did you see the Infinity release lineup for July? Ghulam Special Weapons boxed set! I dunno if this means Ghulam resculpts or not, but it'll still be cool to be able to snag a box with all the options.
Anyway! Looking forward to what you come up with. The Dark Priest conversion looks spot on, he'll fit right in.
Yes you did! I saw your eft painting blog and was interested immediately, and when I looked some things up, I tought it was the perfect game to actually start playing aswell.
Ah, no I haven't seen the lineup for July, I did notice the new muttawi'ah models look absoletely stunning :p I already told myself to check the N&R section, but I haven't really done that so far ^^
I don't know if I'm going to pick up the ghulam/mutts when they come out, as I was actually collecting a hassassin list, and I still got quite a lot of models to paint that I got secondhand. Maybe after that I will, It'd be cool to have a horde of ghulam :p I've seen some pictures of people collecting a full ghulam army, but it looks kinda stupid with all the same models ^^
So! It has been a while, I've been working last month, and I finally bought skyrim, so after work I was just putting my mind on pause and roaming with my character :p
Yesterday I also finished the domaru ^^ I mean, I'm happy with it, but there's still a lot more details I could try to highlight or shade. I do think this was quite and experience, and I just hope to learn more as I go. Maybe I could still try freehanding some blossom flowers on the katana, but I could save that for when I varnish everything.
Also, I need to learn how to pin. The shoulderpads aren't the exact same colour as the rest of the armor, because I did them separately, and didn't had the right angle to highlight it.
2 more angles:
Thx. The lighting is quite bad today, reminds me of looking into the link to make a lightbox again, the one you posted ^^
There's still a lot of things I could fix if I spend way more time, but I'm happy so this will do.
Next I'm finishing the lasiq and starting the eft models.
Almost finished the Lasiq. I only need to finish the gem and visor effects
I also noticed I have painted my guns different between units. I tought maybe someone could point me out what looks good, or what I could easily do to maybe improve what I do atm.
I'll just repost the pictures to show:
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lasiq: I just painted it grey, and tried very little wetblending with one lighter and one darker shade, before washing the model and edge highlighting with cryx bane highlight. It's a gray-greenish colour from P3. You can't really tell, I didn't change the light sensitivity settings of my camera. I'll take better pics when finished.
domaru butai: I painted the gun gray, washed it, and started layering highlights, because the armor is done that way and it would contrast to edge-highlight it.
Fiday: Dark grey base + black wash, with wolf grey edge highlights, but some parts I painted more blue-gray. I tried out a tip from another painter to add little colour in the greys. I prefer the looks of this gun, but I think the hazard stripes are helping a lot to break the idea of flat surface aswell.
Ghulam: Same as the Fiday, but without the other metallic part (blueish tone), also first time doing this with such contrasting tones, the lines are not as thin as on the boarding shotgun.
Tiger Soldier: Same thing as on the ghulam and fiday, but with thicker edges in a midtone, with some lighter details. I like the looks of it, imho I could use this as standard, when I don't need anything fancy.
I'm not mentioning my other starter yu jing. I don't like it, it's just black, almost highlighted entirely with grey. I'm not changing it, but I'm not thinking it looks good enough to keep using that process.
Still gotta post the finished pic of the lasiq here aswell Thanks ^^
I'm not entirely happy with the pink viral ammo I did, maybe a yellow will do? And then change the green visors on the scope, making them yellow aswell?
Started working on my EFT models in the meantime, dark priest is finished, taking pics tomorrow. Started priming some other guys,
So, pics from the finished(?) lasiq.
I painted the gems and ammo in a pink/purple tone, but the scope is green (second pic). Should I change ammo and scope to another color, or make the scopes pink aswell? I think the pink gems looked good next to brown/blue armor with red accents, but this model has some more yellow on it aswell, and the green visor makes me think of rainbows (a)
I started priming the next models, but I forgot washing them. While doing that I dropped the dark knight and his sword broke off T.T Glued it and put some greenstuff over it, hopefully that'll do :p I also dropped the cleric, and her foot is missing, so I'll need to sculpt a new one :s
Because I would use the greenstuff, I tought about the summoners antlers and decided to replace them with a pair of horns from a bloodletter. It doesn't look like antlers anymore, but it's cool ^^ I also shaved off the cloth on the bottom. This way she still looks okay, but doesn't look like a giant next to my proxy models. The dark knight will still look like a giant, but that's good (a)
And the dark priest, I consider him done unless someone has tips on how to paint his staff? I'll take better pictures with the next update.
Thx guys, here's the next one ^^
Bit blurry, taken with my new phone, only gotta find out if I can upload it directly onto dakka. Windows 8 and all these flashy devices are not really my thing :/
I'm not sure about the horns, maybe I need to invert the scheme, with white tips sticking out instead of black? Also, I find these new minis very fun to paint, not that I don't put effort in it, but I don't have to tunnel all my concentration in these ones, unlike the Infinity models.
Awesome model! Been waiting for you! Also, if you access Dakka on your phone I am pretty sure you can upload pictures directly into the Dakka Gallery from your phone, I mean, ALL the pictures in my blog were uploaded to the Gallery straight from my phone, no computer needed.
Aha, alright, will play around with that tomorrow ^^
Also, since my parents bought some furniture from Ikea, this means I have a *load of cardboard I'm going to try and make a small board to test EFT on when the minis are painted, I was already cutting 1" tiles, but didn't had board to work on, now I have I guess (a)
I look forward to it! I am keeping one beady eye on this blog (I grow them in my garage for this sole purpose, I sell them at £12.99 per eye with free shipping if you buy more then 2, pm me for details)
Soo, almost finished on this one, still need some highlights on the blue scarf thing, and I started painting the cloak in the same colours. Actually it's the 'official' scheme, because it reminds me soo much of the awesome judges in FFXII ^^ And I notice just now I gotta rework some of the highlights on the sword. First time painting so much metallic colour, had to check some tutorials for a quick and easy way to do it :p I would have painted it black and drybrushed the boltgun metal, as I do with my lotr goblins, but I prefer this way actually. It's still looking dark, but not as cheap/easy looking as the goblin armor most people paint (myself included)
Hey Guise, been a while.
While I was thinking of painting a lot of miniatures, I've painted a lot of walls and window sills ^^ earned enough to fund my next eft and infinity orders though.
So I think I finished the GW knight, does anyone suggest changing the shield decoration?
I also finished the PP knight, I really liked the mini, good detail, nice pose, fun to paint. And I just notice I need to highlight his head and shield :c
And I also started the Pugilist proxy, this one is from anima tactics. Still need to finish the shield and some highlights:
Sorry for some blur on the pictures, one of these days I'll make better ones, and a group shot. I also bought a tiled gaming mat, so I think I'm almost up for my first game!
Found some other proxies aswell, and if they shouldn't serve I just think they're cool miniatures.
This is one of them, should make for a chemist proxy
Loving the models! Especially the Anima Tactics model, I always think those models look gorgeous (and I would love for someone to point me to a P&M blog for them )
First:
@Warboss_Waaazag: It's a dwarf :p I'll make a comparison pic when I start him.
@Duke: Thx, I really like the AT models, but they're not heroic either, so I can only use female models, because they're more credible.
I did found this blog: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/455099.page He's got other great stuff aswell, but he uses PP, corvus belli, Wyrd and other miniatures to make an inquisitor squad I believe, but with hints to other characters aswell (batman, Al,..)
So, I've been doing some stuff aswell:
I finished my Odalisque Spitfire. Gave her a white outfit, because she made me think of Leia Organa with blaster rifle :p Its really not that obvious I know, my Yoko Fiday turned out much better, but at least I tried this one ^^ She still fits my Haqqislam, so that's good anyway.
The spitfire turned out very good imho, I tried a blue glaze this time, and it helps breaking up some parts of the gun.
Also took some group pictures to show they're still really fitting together:
Haqq, they're all painted and based, only need some vegetation maybe, and a finishing coat of varnish.
YuJing: Wanted to show the basing I did, they need some varnishing aswell to finish. I based the Domaru differently to set itself apart from the Chinese guys ^^
And just another pic of this guy because I quite like the entire product:
I've finished my gargoyle for EFT and primed my gunsmith (iron kingdoms model, I'll just say it's a halfling).
Loving the Groupshot! not gonna lie the fact that each gun is different, if only subtly, gives each Character a uniqueness some armies lack, loving it! (also thanks for the link)
So, I've been idle for a while.. organizing some student movements takes up a lot of my time (:
And also because I wasn't sure to make a blog about what I'm doing or not. I've decided to just post what I'm doing right here, not only Infinity or EFT.
That's because I learned about HoR kill team rules. Someone at the club might give it a try and now I'm slowly painting some 40k models ^^
Started with a box of scions, mainly because I like them. chopped up the tubing from the hotshot lasguns, so they'll count as regular lasguns. This makes them a CCS with bolt pistol and carapace armour. Tempestor/Commander needs some cleanup here and there, and the scions/vets are just WIPs really. (so quick pics it is)
Some background/ideas:
Spoiler:
So I need a reason for this guy to be in killteam, while the 13th black crusade is banging on Cadia's gates. Maybe he's on a cleanup mission on his way to Cadia. A flickering of the Navigator, or a misinterpreted message from the astropath sends him on his way, arriving too late on the target planet. Just a couple soldiers are surviving (rest of my kill team vets).
Second idea was that he had to accompany an officer to target destination to cleanup the battle, bringing back every survivor to fight for Cadia. The officer is given the title of rogue trader, and can exploit the target area when he has fulfilled his mission. This leaves the door open for me to model the rogue trader crew, and would explain why the commander is only arriving with 4 veterans (the rest of the personnel stays under the traders' command?
Anyway, I only need justification for my commander to arrive with only 4 veterans at the planet. Is space travel in light vehicles even possible in 40K? I always imagine huge transport ships or warfleets, but never crafts the size of the millenium falcon for instance?
Oh and I want their bases to represent burnt areas, because the commander loves the scorched earth strategy. This would also justify his dark color armor for camo reasons, and my next guys, the original fighting forces and only survivors were fighting in area with vegetation. I've got an idea to model them with roman crests on their helmets, but that's for later (:
Next I had the courage to finally finish sculpting the hair of my chaos sister Sabathiel. The base model is the wood elf archer from avatars of war. I started this a year ago, but I'm convinced I can make better skull kneecaps and bombs now. Also, the scions sprue gave me a human sized hand I can use on her. What do you think? A loincloth would also help her look as a sister.
I added pics of weapon options in the spoiler. I'm unsure about the size of the sword and the length of the pistol.
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This is not a 2h sword, if I add a gun it will be in the same position the last pic shows. Gotta work with what I have :/
This is the volley-gun, so I need to shave off imperial symbols, the left hand, and either the barrel or the centre piece, or even both?
So, I found some time to finish my scion bodies.
Only need to do the arms and heads, which are primed and pinned, ready to paint.
I've also got the cadian command box. Should be able to make my melta vets, sergeant and medic out of all the bits I have now ^^
Then, in between my exams I'll hopefully be painting some Infinity again, as I will pick up the N3 book somewhere in the next month aswell And afterwards I think the club will start gaming again. they weren't playing much infinity, as they were waiting for the N3 rules or painting their firestorm boxes.
Hi guys, I've been busy studying for my exams, but it does allow me to progress slowly, since I'm at home each day anyway So each night I've been touching up my scions, and they are finally 'finished'!
I just noticed by the pictures I need to paint the gun lenses ^.^ so they're not really finished, and the base trims ofcourse
And I decided to build all my special guys out of the command box, since I've found a deal on some regular troops and hwts. I'm only still deciding if I use the meltagun of the scions box on the regular cadian.
Still, the scion arms look ace on cadian bodies for certain guys, I'm using pistol and sword out for my sgt. and the staff (is it supposed to be a power maul?) and chainsword for my priest. I've cut up the plasmagun from the command box, only had to glue a second handgrip and touch up the recoil pad. I'm going to use the bearded head with eyepatch from the empire general for the priest.
Because I'm making a killteam, and I had to come up with a story for the scion leader to be absent on Cadia, I still have to come up with a story for him being on the planet he is (rescue mission or warp time troubles) but anyway the planet will be a Roman/Greek inspired homeworld (Olympus or Boeotia or Alba Longa?) with cadian patterned guardsmen. They'll be supported by other regiments if I need more guardsmen (just to be able to build different models)
I'm going to try and sculpt leather straps as groinguards, and give special models crests on their heads. A friend gave me the idea to make slingshot grenade launchers, but I just think I'll make them out of the grenade lobbing hand in the cadian box. I also still have the empire general horse that I can try to convert.
If I ever get there I would like to try converting alarielle the radiant into an amazon inspired primaris psyker It doesn't really matter what theme I pick, but I tought of using werewolves as ogryns, with the story of romulus and remus in mind. Or lycans or cyclopses.
Anyway, I think there are plenty ideas, and it's the first time I'm going to try something like this.
I still can't loose sight of Infinity though, as I need to pick up the new rulebook if I visit my hobby shop one of these days.
I was taking pictures from my guardsmen, when my dad showed me some lighting techniques and together we experimented with some preferences on the camera. I've got a better picture of my scions:
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But I was actually taking pictures from my guardsmen! And I think the Styx homeguard is a suitable name. (since Ithaka already is homeworld to the Iron Snakes apparently).
Maybe the Styx system consists of two planets: Circe & Kalypso (or Aeaea & Ogygia) with titans (local creatures?) roaming around.
My sergeant will be Charon, and the priest Laocoon. Grenade launchers Castor & Pollux and the meltaguy could be Scipio to mess things up ^^
And the Scion Tempestor is Schliemann (a) Don't mind me enjoying my own fantasy ^^ (I studied ancient greek in highschool)
The models!
I still need to finish everything though, this is just an update. And you can't see it, but I'm making a cape for the sergeant. The medic will get a ponytail (does it have a name?) helmet.
It's good to keep myself experimenting with things. The first crest I tried to make, I instantly tried to shape the hairs and stuff, only messing things up and destroying the glue bond. Then I found some tutorials on other things, and the answer is patience ^^ So the second crest I just put on blank as they are, and I'm going to put over another layer over it, which I can texture to my like.
Same with the cape & ponytail; I made the general shape, so I can shape folds/strands of hair afterwards ^^
This is probably basic, but I just noticed that I was working too fast, so I'm just happy I learned something new
So, I got 30 extra guardsmen, 20 of them being catachans, and 3 HWTs.
Before I had this idea of a historically inspired guard, there were a couple of regiments that looked cool. The Kanak skulltakers, Brontian longknives and Ork hunters. Ork hunters look easy enough to make, just a paintjob of the catachans with maybe some solid cardboard armor plates. Would brontian longknives would look convincing with the right paintjob on the catachans, with lots of scars and equipped with all the knives I can find? That would allow me to bring some variety and make two squads of different regiments ^^ (ork hunters/catachans is also a possibility ofc)
Since I had ten guards to make the pteruges (groinstraps) for, I decided to change my plan and cut them out of cardboard, because I know I can't get them as uniform as I want them to be if I have to sculpt them.
They're a tad too long I guess, so I will cut them a bit. And does anyone know how I could bend them just a tiny bit? All I find are tutorials for creasing, but that's done for larger modelling projects :/
And, I noticed I've got some prints left behind in my GS work of the crests. They are tiny scores from handling it with my tools, can I cover this up with liquid greenstuff? I've never used it.
Another question on greenstuff is; how do I make sure it sticks? Here is a picture from the cape I'm trying to make:
I know how to prevent the fingerprints, but when I apply the greenstuff, and I don't use glue, I either need to wet my tools too much, and eventually there will be a water droplet running beneath my work, preventing it from sticking to it's surface. When I use glue to help it stick, it becomes hard, and I can't smooth it out. So what you see around the middle below the fold I tried to make, is a second piece of GS I used to lengthen the cape, but when I want to blend it onto it's surface I just tear it apart when it becomes too thin :/
Anyone got some tips for me?
And then there's the HWTs; My current list doesn't include them, but what do you think?
I like the look of missile launchers, but apparently they're easy to convert onto spare guardsmen if I want to. Do you guys have any suggestions what I ever could need?
The (Heralds of Ruin) killteam lists I've seen up till now usually don't bring much more armor than a couple of MEQ and maximum one TEQ I think, maybe that helps ^^ (since I have no experience, I cant decide for myself)
So, I finished my exams finally and had some more time to work on my force ^^
I bought some aquarium plants, and started basing. I initially wanted woodland bases, but It doesn't really matter, and this just explains why catachans are involved. I think having the scions with scorched earth bases is still convincing, and I only plan on using the tempestor as my leader anyway.
I also finished my medics helmet, I think it looks great ^^
And as you can see I changed the pteruges. It was easy cutting each strap, and maybe those pointy edges are a bit more recognisable.
As the cloak of my sergeant was messed up badly, I tried again, with some extra advice from Lamby. I tried underpinning this time, so I could just drape a very smooth piece of GS over the pins, and I used vaseline as lubricant. I think the vaseline made a huge difference.
There's still some messed up parts, and some imperfections, but I think I can cover that up when sculpting the folds ^^
And lastly, I decided I wanted to make a lone brontian longknife. I'm making a small force, maybe survivors or guys cut off from their army, so it's possible some people of other regiments ended up here.
He won't be WYSIWYG because of all the melee weapons, but it'll be clear if he's the only one wearing a boatload of knives :p
I used the scarred head from the cadian command kit, and I can paint scars on the catachan torso
And I plan on using two sword arms with his gun strapped on his back,, so I had to make a right swordarm. I used the catachan pistol arm and the sword from the mechanical arm from the command kit.
The hilt isn't entirely straight, but it won't be that visible when painted I guess..
Came up with a scheme, and tried it on a couple of guardsmen. It's just the basecoats with some shade for now. I notice my black wash from game color behaves very differently from the GW shades, so I might get nuln oil, my shade always dries up in puddles and doesn't flow into the recesses that good ): And I really like GW shades actually.
What do you think? I didn't want a camo scheme, as if they had no time to take camo uniforms with them when they left their homeworld, or as if they've been cut off from their force and wander around in a lush place without the right gear.
But since it's either another place on their world, or just a nearby planet in their system, I didn't want them totally to be out of place. I picked this Naboo guard scheme (from the captain ^^) and I think it will both fit a more urban homeworld surrounding, aswell as the jungle with red/green plants.
I plan on highlighting the blue with a grey or pale blue to tone it down though.
Lol what kind of pink? The one you used on your stormknights? I will try ^^ Don't know if I can make a good colour with the paints I have ^^
Anyway, I was painting my Brontian Longknife! And I'm happy with it in person, but looking at the pictures I think this is my worst model I've painted so far XD
I really like the transition of his skin, it appears a little more yellow than it is, but I might stay away from the bugmans glow + reikland shade combo next time. I really don't like the orange tone it gives. And I might add stubble to his head. I also didn't really know what to do with his camo pants, so this is really just me messing around q: for the catachans I might use a less busy camo scheme. And I could just make another brontian if I find a suitable head ^^
And more pictures + the fluff image for those who don't know this regiment:
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I didn't add that much knives, because all I had were the cadian knives and some leftover knives from the scion kit, which are way too big. Also I didn't bother making the armor, the catachans are too bulky, I would have to skulpt bulky straps and armor, which would obscure all detail I think.
I also got some quick pictures of the assembled special weapon guys:
And from my commanders cape. I think I'm leaving it this way, I'll just touch it up with some liquid GS to hide some crevices. I want to use the scion servitor skull for my commander, giving the skull the crest centurions would wear. This way, I can use the head I chose, but still show his rank in some way ^^ I already cut up the spiky halo from the skull, only need to sculpt another crest for it. I'll stick it to his back, just as it would on the tempestor ^^
I've also made a sergeant out of my last model, because I wanted to use the command arm carrying the helmet (no picture yet).
And lastly, I've started priming my bases ^^ I don't like to do this, :p Glueing the plants was fun, but painting the bases isn't that interesting :p
This time though, I haven't done nothing, I just didn't have time to update anything.
I just finished my bachelor test (is this a thing, or is it called otherwise in english?) and other lab tests with a ton of work to process, and actually exams are coming up aswell.. whatever.
I've also spend my time playing the witcher 2 as it was on steam sale. Makes me want to pick up my Lotr minis and make some conversions first ^^
Anyway, here's what I added to my imperial killteam:
Plus: I've tried magnetising it, and though it was a pita to do because I didn't have the right equipment, I managed ^^ :
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Only need to find a tutorial for some easy weathering..Then there's this guy plus his backup:
That means my current force looks like this:
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
I only need to paint the base rims and I'm probably adding some more grass to the bases. Then there's only these 6 guys remaining: plasma, melta, grenade lobbing guy, a sergeant, commander and a plasma priest ^^ yay!
And since I was painting anyway I started finishing my Infinity Tuareg hacker, so that'll be the next one i show you! Since it's exams I don't know when that'll be, but I hope to update this blog a little bit more often again s:
P.S. Duke I haven't forgot about pink helmets, but these were painted already. Next one will be for you ^^
It's not visible on the picture, but the gun refects a lot of light normally -in a wrong way- I worked with diluted Game color black, and for some reason it looks wet, so I might fix it up some time.
Yu Jing | 7 models
Zhanshi Combi (11|0)
Celestial Guard Lieutenant (13|0)
Tiger Combi (27|0)
Shang Ji Combi (42|0)
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Keisotsu Combi (9|0)
